Scott westerfield pretties pdf

Shay is a freaking idiot and so is Peris. Zane seems like a decent guy,but I If I hear word bubbly one more time,I'll kill someone. Zane seems like a decent guy,but I didn't really care for him through the book.

Bloody hell. I just couldn't stand reading word bogus anymore. Stvarno ljudi? Overall,boring and repetitive. Tally-wa and Shay-la? Jesus Christ. Favourite quotes: You know what's the best part of this book? That Virginia Woolf quote Mr. Westerfeld used when starting the chapter three. View 1 comment. Mar 20, Diane rated it did not like it Shelves: read , 1-star , kindle , young-adult-fiction , dystopian , post-apocalyptic.

I need more friends to read this, to reassure me that it really is awful and it's not just that I'm sick which I am. I mean, with bronchitis. So do it! Read this! And tell me it is bad!! So, 1. Because you know something is wrong when "It Was Okay" sounds way too generous Where to start? Could there be a more unlikeable main character? I know I'm not the target audience , age-wise, but geeze, as a female, I'd at least like to like her as a fellow female, even if a young one.

And I don't. She's the exact sort of insipid, unintelligent, first-this-man-now-this-one type of female character I don't like. So, there's that straight off the bat. Shay is a way better character. And then there is just the whole story telling, which is ridiculous for the most part. I mean, there is this whole section where Tally is with a primitive tribe no!

I can't even get into the whole 'what is this i don't even I mean, she's never cooked. She lives in a society where food comes fully prepared to you pretty much technomagically and it has been this way for hundreds of years. And she's snide about the issue more than once. Alright, I'm probably belaboring what seems like a minor point but my point is the book is pretty much entirely full of little points like that. It's awful. My heart wants to give this book one star but my head sick as it is with bronchitis germs is going to give it two, for the few bits I liked Shay and Zane and some of the other characters and for the fact that I actually did finish it.

But I will not be reading the third. I still stand by that it is 1. For example, the poor ol' Time Baroness. So, i'm downgrading to 1-star for sake of categorizing but my actual ranking still stands at 1.

One day it was sunny outside, and a girl wanted to read a book. And this was one of those books she had read all those years ago and it was still on her shelf. She remembered that it was pretty awesome. In fact, it was so awesome that despite reading it 5 Words: Beauty, freedom, pressure, popularity, friendship. In fact, it was so awesome that despite reading it ten years ago, and reading almost books every year since, she could remember everything.

So she plucked Pretties off of her shelf and sat on a lounger in the middle of the garden on that sunny day, and only put it down once to make a strong black coffee. She read until she had finished the book and her shoulders were a bright, burning red, because she got lost in the messed up world in the book and forgot to reapply the factor 50 to her pale, British skin and her shoulders always burn.

So yeah, I picked this up yesterday, read it in two long sittings with only a break to make coffee in the middle, and I loved it just as much as I did when I first read it ten years ago. God I'm old.

I love the characters, the world, the story. I love the conflicts, the pain, the love, the hate. This book has everything and I love it. This book picks up a little while after the first one, but there's no major gap or confusion. Sep 02, Violet rated it it was amazing Shelves: sci-fi , 5-stars , favorite-authors , dystopia-utopia. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here.

Love, Love, Love!!! I totally love it. And here are some of my coments: You learn more about the "Rusties" in this one. It was kind of creepy. They refer to us as stupid Maybe we are. I mean look at what we are doing to the planet that we live on. We are killing the planet. And you know what they say, that there is going to be more and more of us in the future.

And she said that the oil thing, killing most of the "Rusties", saved the planet. Well, I don't like the "killing most of the popuatio Love, Love, Love!!! Well, I don't like the "killing most of the popuation" part, but if you don't find some way to control the popuation and how we use our resoures, then we are all or most are going to DIE!!!!

And I don't side with the Specials with the controling everyone and giving everyone brain damage. And I don't side with Tally completely ethier. I want a mix of both. Control popuation, simi-set lives, and stuff like that. I want to be bubbly and pretty if you know what I mean. And OMG!!! Talk about a love triangle!!!!! Zane and Daivd!

Wow, I feel so sorry for Tally. I mean having a love triangle and dealing with what she did being ugly and what she did being pretty. I mean Tally has some major problems to sort out. I don't want to be her. Well, I guess if you can do all the things she did than you a deal with these problems. I didn't want her to brake-up with Daivd, though. So step off Zane.

Daivd was first. So that is my coment for Petties. If you want to hear more of my coments on Tally's world well then just wait 'til the next review. Which is for Specials. Stay bubbly! Nov 11, bec. Don't say I didn't say I didn't warn ya. The angst is everywhere. I tried with this book, I really did but the plot just got even more muddled after the Uglies. I could not stop myself from rolling my eyes and suppressing the urge to fling this book across the room every 5 minutes.

Let's take a moment to look at this synopsis: Tally Youngblood is popular and Prettyville boyfriend Zane leads the Crims gang. But Croy from her past smuggles in a message and pills. Her best friend Shay is jealous. Evil Dr Cable from the Specials is in pursuit. How can she reconcile her past, present, and future?

I didn't even read this until now but I am literally cringing. This sounds like a melodramatic soap opera or some type of Broadway musical. It got so bad that I wouldn't even be surprised if they just suddenly burst into song, High School Musical style. I don't even know anymore. Right off the bat you're thrust with this new "pretty" slang now that Tally has turned Pretty.

There's no explanation and you have to define things on your own from here on out. The amount of times they said "bubbly or bogus" in this novel is outrageous. I was tempted to claw out my eyeballs. I had no idea know where this story was going, it was all over the place. Tally is pretentious typical YA "heroine" who some how thinks she is smart but doesn't have a lick of sense in her.

She is constantly has to be coaxed by the male counterpart in order for her to do something it's ridiculous. I'm surprised how quick she rebounded with Zane. It felt as if he came out of nowhere and all of sudden Tally is dating him and how "bubbly making" he is.

You can hear me gagging all across the world Shay I could stand in the first book but here she became my most hated character. Even more than Tally. The fact that she suddenly turned into Tally's nemesis is preposterous.

Who knows if I'll even finish this series, but we all know that's totally bogus. Shelves: science-fiction , owned , megan-recommendations , 4-stars , 3rd-person , young-adult , dystopia , read The Writing and Worldbuilding It builds on the world Uglies established, expanding and giving insight into the behind the scenes of the society.

The slight glorification of Zane's undernourishment and gaunt appearance wasn't okay, though. I understand why he was gaunt, but I don't understand why Tally thought it was attractive.

She was just as proactive as she had been in book 1, and I still really liked her. Zane: I'm not a fan of love triangles, but he was a super nice and I loved him. He was distinct from David and lovable in his own way. Shay: I'm so sad my hyper, lovable Shay is gone forever : Fausto: I loved him! He wasn't super important, but he was funny and even in his few appearances, I got a good feel for his character.

Andrew Simpson Smith: My lovable caveman! Conclusion I read this in almost one sitting and in less than 24 hours, so I think they gives a general idea of how engrossed I was in this, and how much I generally really liked it, but I didn't totally love it or anything.

To put it in pretty speech: It wasn't totally love-making which sounds dirty, but I swear it isn't Oct 04, Railee rated it really liked it. Scott Westerfield has a tallent that I enjoy as equally as it annoys me- he can change my mind like a remote control!

At the end of the first book in this series, Uglies, I thought that it was the end of the world and that the next book couldn't possibly go the way I wanted it to go!

But as I read Pretties, I found that what I had so stubbornly wanted while reading the first book dissolved and I suddenly wanted something else. At the end of this book the feeling of "Oh no! It's the end of the wo Scott Westerfield has a tallent that I enjoy as equally as it annoys me- he can change my mind like a remote control!

It's the end of the world! I'm almost afraid to read the next book, Specials, because I know that he's going to manage to change my mind again, but I don't want my mind to change!

That's the masterpiece of it- I'm feeling with each book the same way that the main character, Tally, is feeling.

She doesn't want her mind to change, and when it does it seems like the end of the world, until she is used to it and her desires change. I wonder if he meant to write it that way! Before begining the series, my Sister-in-law warned me that she did't like who Tally ends up with in the end as a romantic partner , and I thought that I could trick myself into wanting her to end up with "the wrong guy" so that I would be happy with the end of the book, but with the way things are going, it looks like my little scheme backfired and I made myself like the "right guy" instead of the "wrong guy", who she's probably going to end up with.

Oh good grief! It's exhausting, trying to beat the system. Yet another thing that makes me feel like I'm one of the characters in the book. Oct 08, Michael rated it liked it Shelves: fantasy , read-in It has to move the story forward, setting up things to come in the final installment, but it can't necessarily push things too far ahead for fear of losing audiences in the next installment.

We're treated to glimpses of her hedonistic lifestyle now, but a lot of the first third of this story had me wondering when the real plot would kick in "Pretties" suffers from middle-of-a-trilogy-itis.

We're treated to glimpses of her hedonistic lifestyle now, but a lot of the first third of this story had me wondering when the real plot would kick in. In the last novel, Kally agreed to go undercover, get the surgery and then have it reversed so she could return to the Smoke. As "Pretties" unfolds, Kally has forgotten this due to the surgery and is more concerned with joining the hot new clicque. She is also developing a new love interest, who seems far more interested in the world outside than in the current situation.

In order to recall their ugly, rebellious days, Tally and her new beau must stay "bubbly. Once Tally finds the way to reverse the surgery and begins to try to go back to her old self, things pick up. But a lot of the revelations in the last two-thirds feel incomplete, as if Westerfeld is setting up events and situations for the third novel. In the end, Tally is once again forced to make a choice she doesn't want to in order to save herself. We're set up well for the next book, which hopefully will provide some answers to a lot of the lingering questions left in this story.

Oct 21, Valerie rated it really liked it Shelves: sci-fi. I liked this book better than the first. And I'm not a big sci-fi reader but I think the world Westerfeld creates is unique and things are explained well without it feeling like an overload of information.

I didn't much like how the rusties being us are considered stupid but then again in the s people took tape worm pills to lose weight, we know better now.

Anyways , get I liked this book better than the first. Anyways , getting to the book. I was annoyed at Tally in the beginning of the book but it wasn't her fault I guess. She was prettified after all. Other than that she is a good protagonist, who is a hero just by nature, she is smart and unintentionally responsible. Tally is pretty crafty too. What I most liked about the book was the fact that she was going against the top dogs here and had to find all these sneaky ways to do it.

It was even weirder with Shay, because Tally had known her back in ugly days, before the operation had made her this way. Tally took a steadying breath, the room spinning again, but in a good way. She gestured for the windows to transpare a little more, and in the sunlight she saw the new additions. Bolder than all the other implanted glitter, twelve tiny rubies ringed each of Shay's pupils, glowing softly red against emerald irises. But hang on One jewel in each eye seemed to be flickering, a tiny white candle in the coppery depths.

It took Tally a second to remember how to read the big clock tower in the center of town. Wouldn't bottom-right be five o'clock? A laugh bubbled up in Tally. You have jewels in your eyes? And they tell time? And they go backward! Isn't that maybe one thing too many, Shay? Tally immediately regretted what she'd said. The expression that clouded Shay's face was tragic, sucking away the radiance of a moment before.

She looked about to cry, except without puffy eyes or a red nose. New surge was always a delicate topic, like a new hairstyle, almost. Shay's smile returned, and Tally breathed a sigh of relief, still not believing herself. It was the kind of mistake only brand-new pretties made, and she'd had the operation over a month ago. Why was she still saying bogus things? If she made a comment like that tonight, one of the Crims might vote against her. Tally laughed, knowing the lame joke meant she was forgiven.

She and Shay had been through a lot together, after all. Shay nodded. They've got an idea already, but it's secret. Like they were such bad boys. All they ever did in the ugly days was sneak out and maybe cross the river a few times. They never even made it to the Smoke. The song ended just then, and Tally's last word fell into sudden silence. She tried to think of what to say, but the conversation just faded out, like fireworks in a dark sky.

The next song seemed to take a long time to start. When it did, she was relieved and said, "Crim costumes should be easy, Shay-la. We're the two biggest criminals in town. Shay and Tally tried for two hours, making the hole in the wall spit out costumes and trying them on. They thought of bandits, but didn't really know what one looked like - in all the old bandit movies in the wallscreen, the bad guys didn't look Crim, just retarded. Pirates were much better dressing, but Shay didn't want to wear a patch over one of her new eyeballs.

Going as hunters was another idea, but the hole in the wall had this thing about guns, even fake ones. Tally thought of famous dictators from history, but most of them turned out to be men and fashion-missing. Shay spread her arms and said more things, trying to be bubbly. Or drive cars? It was fun, though, hanging out with Shay and trying things on, then snorting and giggling and tossing the costumes back into the recycler. Your Rating:.

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