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Having recently collected on a decent sized debt, I had surplus spending money for the first time since November. The people at my local independent bookstore must have known I had money, because as soon as I had it in hand, those dastardly bookstore types started pumping a siren song straight into my pocket, a siren song that sprang from tantalizingly fluttering pages, calling "booooooks, new booooks, words, paper, crisp spines, things you've never read before, booooooooks! Buy Booooooks!" The only question then was which was stronger, the insistent clamber of undiscovered literary wonders, or the soothing whisper of old childhood friends?
I'm so predictable really. I pulled Uglies of the shelf and crept wide eyed to the counter, vowing to only buy the rest of the series if I liked this one, and not just impulsively buy the whole set because they had words in them. A few hours later, I was back, the rest of the series clutched to my chest. I also bought one of those pocket magnifier light things for riding in the car with my family after dark. The little magnifier and the car's bouncing will combine to make me horribly horribly ill, but it will be completely worth it!
Now, back to the books, before I start babbling again. Tally is an ugly, a normal looking fifteen year old girl only a few months away from the surgery that will turn her, like all other sixteen year olds, into a perfect looking "Pretty", who gets to leave the ugly dorms for New Pretty Town, one huge, beautiful, never ending party. Best of all, she gets to be with Paris, her best friend, again. But after she sneaks into an out of New Pretty Town, she becomes friends with another adventurous ugly, a girl named Shay, who has been left alone in the dorms after she chickened out of running away. Just before her sixteenth birthday, she makes her choice to run at last, away from the cookie cutter loveliness and vapid self indulgence of life as Pretty, but staying ugly is not an option. When the city government forces Tally to help them track Shay down, she learns the chilling secrets about becoming a Pretty.
( All that glitters is not hovery. Spoilers and analysis, or God this is a long one )
I also learned a great phrase that I shall have to use. It shouldn't be hard, I feel brain missing all the time.
I'm so predictable really. I pulled Uglies of the shelf and crept wide eyed to the counter, vowing to only buy the rest of the series if I liked this one, and not just impulsively buy the whole set because they had words in them. A few hours later, I was back, the rest of the series clutched to my chest. I also bought one of those pocket magnifier light things for riding in the car with my family after dark. The little magnifier and the car's bouncing will combine to make me horribly horribly ill, but it will be completely worth it!
Now, back to the books, before I start babbling again. Tally is an ugly, a normal looking fifteen year old girl only a few months away from the surgery that will turn her, like all other sixteen year olds, into a perfect looking "Pretty", who gets to leave the ugly dorms for New Pretty Town, one huge, beautiful, never ending party. Best of all, she gets to be with Paris, her best friend, again. But after she sneaks into an out of New Pretty Town, she becomes friends with another adventurous ugly, a girl named Shay, who has been left alone in the dorms after she chickened out of running away. Just before her sixteenth birthday, she makes her choice to run at last, away from the cookie cutter loveliness and vapid self indulgence of life as Pretty, but staying ugly is not an option. When the city government forces Tally to help them track Shay down, she learns the chilling secrets about becoming a Pretty.
( All that glitters is not hovery. Spoilers and analysis, or God this is a long one )
I also learned a great phrase that I shall have to use. It shouldn't be hard, I feel brain missing all the time.
