Her friendship with Shay finally begins to crack under the pressure of the events of the previous book, and it was nice to see Tally and Shay shaken out of their usual roles and grow into fuller characters. Although she is a Pretty in this book, Tally matures very quickly once she realises the truth about the operation and makes some very difficult decisions which I admired her for. In Uglies, she lacked the ability to see the consequences of her actions and was pretty self-centred. I liked Pretties much better than Uglies for a multitude of reasons, but mainly because of the changes in Tally's character. Did she really promise to give all this up? Is she bound by a promise she made when she was a different person? If there is anything left of the old Tally, how will she fight her way out to keep her word and help her friends?Ī Simon & Schuster audio production. When someone from her Ugly life shows up with a message, Tally has a hard time listening. She doesn't think she needs any kind of cure at all. The new, Pretty Tally is totally happy right where she is. She vowed to accept the operation, but with the understanding that her friends on the outside would rescue her, and let her be the guinea pig for the experimental and highly dangerous cure they're developing.īut in the second book of the Uglies series, Tally's Pretty. Just before her birthday, Tally discovered that turning Pretty comes with a terrible price. In Tally's world, your 16th birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellant Ugly into a stunningly attractive Pretty, and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is having a really good time.

Pretties audio book