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Pretties
http://www.fishpond.co.nz/Books/Pretties-Scott-Westerfeld/9780689865398
By
Scott Westerfeld
| Rating: | | | Format: | Paperback, 384 pages | | Release Date: | 19 December 2005 | Gorgeous. Popular. Perfect. Perfectly wrong. Tally has finally become pretty. Now her looks are beyond perfect, her clothes are awesome, her boyfriend is totally hot, and she's completely popular. It's everything she's ever wanted. But beneath all the fun -- the nonstop parties, the high-tech luxury, the total freedom -- is a nagging sense that something's wrong. Something important. Then a message from Tally's ugly past arrives. Reading it, Tally remembers what's wrong with pretty life, and the fun stops cold. Now she has to choose between fighting to forget what she knows and fighting for her life -- because the authorities don't intend to let anyone with this information survive. ReviewsGr 9 Up-Teenage troublemaker Tally Youngblood and her friends are back in this fast-paced sequel (Simon Pulse, 2005) to Scott Westerfeld's Uglies (Simon Pulse, 2005). Now herself a Pretty, Tally finds that life as a vapid partygoer in a barely functional dystopian society doesn't hold the attraction she thought it would. When one of the Uglies delivers a message along with two mysterious pills that promise to "cure" the lesions that were implanted along with her cosmetic enhancements, Tally splits the pills with her new boyfriend and they both begin to come out from the mind-numbing fog that has surrounded them for so long. Her best friend's jealousy along with a risky plan to save the other Pretties soon have Tally and her friends hoverboarding for their lives. Carine Montbertrand's disaffected, adenoidal, and flat voice is a perfect match for Tally's post-Valley girl mentality and actions at the beginning of the story. Then, as Tally changes, so does the vocal tone and quality of the narrator. Will Tally succeed in regaining her individuality and maintaining her independence? Just as with the first book in the trilogy, the ending will have listeners hurrying to their libraries and bookstores for Specials (Simon Pulse, 2006), the final volume of this futuristic trilogy.-Cindy Lombardo, Tuscarawas County Public Library, New Philadelphia, OH Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information. |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster | | ISBN: | 0689865392 |
| EAN: | 9780689865398 | | Dimensions: | 17.0 x 12.0 x 2.0 centimeters (0.27 kg) |
| Age Range: |
11-14 years |
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 – Customer review on 09/09/2008
These 3 books are some of my greatest reads. There is lots of heartfelt stuff.They all have a lovely love story but sometimes it ends . these stories have love, betrayal, adventure, suprises and so much more to offer they also have great friendship. the world the live in is hard to cope with because everyone is the same everyone is a stupied airhead but some people make a difference
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 – Customer review on 23/02/2009
this book has made me think about the way we look at life in all diametres. But the prospects of her looking for herself is very annoying because she knows that she is never going to get away with it, and in the end does no doubtedly makes an appointment to change everything she has ever looked at in her life but whenshe realises it wont work will she understand what it will take?
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 – Customer review on 01/07/2007
Gr. 8-11. In this highly anticipated sequel to the hit Uglies 2005), Tally Youngblood struggles to retain her mental acuity after undergoing the operation that transformed her into a Pretty. While in the renegade Ugly community, Tally learned that along with cosmetic enhancements, new Pretties are given brain lesions that leave them in a perpetual state of lazy vanity. Tally volunteered to take a drug developed to cure the lesions, but now that she is a Pretty, she has forgotten her promise. A coded message leads her to some pills and a letter that she wrote to herself before her transformation, and after swallowing the cure, she is catapulted into a dangerous new adventure, in which she discovers that the peace and happiness of Pretty society come with a terrible price. Riveting and compulsively readable, this action-packed sequel does not disappoint. Just as good as its predecessor, it will leave fans breathlessly waiting for the trilogy's final volume. Jennifer Hubert
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– Customer review on 23/06/2006
Tally is finally pretty! The problem is she can't remember some important stuff from when she was ugly. Thankfully her new boyfriend Zane keeps her 'bubbly' or clear headed, and she gradually begins to remember that the Pretty life may not be what she really wants.
Sort of the difficult middle book story-wise, but still exciting and definitely mind blowing.
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– Customer review on 20/11/2006
if you liked Uglies then you will definatly love pretties. Tally see's what it was like living in a ideological world in Uglies, but it Westerfelds sequel, Tally has been made Pretty and remembers nothing of her privious life. the battel that she was fighting, the boy she fell in love with, or the way that the world should be run.
A really good read for anyone who wishes to test the limits of reality and the world that we live in.
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