Pretties

The second book in Scott Westerfeld's Uglies series is just as intense as the first book, Uglies. It grabs your interest and doesn't let go until you've finished the last page. In this book some new characters are added to the scene which just adds to the already great mixture of elements going on in this book. This is a definite must read for anyone who even remotely likes sci-fi books, or even books about cultures (the Giver anyone..).

Okay, now for the spoiler portion where I go over the whole book.
The last book leaves us where Tally goes to the city to become pretty, so she can be a human guinea pig and use the nano pills that will make her mind "ugly" again.
When we start on this book Tally is a new pretty, and somewhat oblivious to everything that went on before. She is still friends with Shay, and is being initiated/voted into the pretty clique, Crims. The head of the crims is Zane.

The night of the big party Tally and Shay decide to go as people from the smoke. A previous friend of Tally's who is still ugly, shows up at the party dressed as a special and gives Tally a coded message that she must figure out before she can find the pills. Zane ends up going on the adventure with her and they find the pills. Tally is too frightened to take the pills alone, so Zane tells her to split them. He'll eat one, and she can eat the other.

After taking the pills Tally and Zane are constantly together. This was somewhat complicated to read, because part of you wants Tally to stay loyal to David, but the other part of you wants her to be with Zane because he sounds so cool. Anyway, Shay finds out that Tally and Zane took the pills and gets really upset that Tally didn't share the pills with her. This just adds fuel to the already weak threads that are holding Shay and Tally's friendship together in the first place.

Eventually Zane and Tally and a few others end up at the New Smoke. Zane gets there before Tally, going on her own journey and only gets to the new smoke after she steals a Specials ship. She makes it to the New Smoke and is there for a few moments (enough to be led there by David and talk to David's mom), before things get dicey again. All in all, it is a fast paced, sci-fi adventure novel that I would recommend anyone read.