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Mood: Sick ]
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Currently: Watching The Amazing Race Season Finale ]
Everyone in Tally’s world wants to be beautiful. Luckily at sixteen everyone in Tally’s world is made beautiful through surgery. Tally, at fifteen and nine months, can’t wait to move from being an Ugly to a Pretty. Being a Pretty means moving to a life of partying every day. A dilettante life that many a young Hollywood starlet would envy.
So what’s the problem, you ask? What happens if you didn’t want to be made beautiful? Tally’s new friend Shay is one of those and she wants to run away. When she does, the authorities give Tally a choice, find Shay and betray the rebels who live outside the city or never get a chance to be a Pretty.
Scott Westerfield has created an interesting dystopia where our society’s obsession with beauty and pleasure reaching their ultimate pinnacle. Tally’s choice in face of betraying a friend to live as a Pretty is an interesting one. The twist at the end is also powerful.
Again, another entry for the next After Harry.