The second part of "The Uglies" began when Tally reached the smoke. Tally met David, Cory, and all the other smokies on her first day and they were all curious about her. Still, she went along with everyone else and worked on the railroad, pulling up steel that they would carry back to the smoke to make trails for their hover boards. While working Tally and David were working together talking all about her trip and David tells her how she is the only person to ever come alone to smoke. Everyone else came in groups except for her and that's why everyone is suspicious. That night Shay shows Tally where she will be sleeping in a hut in the middle of the smoke. Tally didn't want to go back to the city yet, she wanted to stay at the smoke for a while, and so she did. As the days went by Tally feel into the regular routine with work. A couple days down the road, her and David when out on a little adventure where they ended up kissing. And at that moment Tally realized she didn't want to go to to the city anymore. She wanted to stay in the smoke. After dinner that night David brought Tally to meet his parents, Maddy and Az. After talking for a while, Maddy and Az decided that Tally could handle the information they were about to tell her. They told her all about the operation to become a pretty and how they put a lesions in everyone's head. It was very dangerous to have and some people even died from it and Maddy and Az were trying to find a solution, but they were stopped by special circumstances and that's why they ran away and created the smoke. Tally was shocked by this information. Then, she knew for sure that did not want to become a pretty. So that night, She and David went to the fire and she threw in her Locket, because she thought it would destroy it and that nothing would happen after it.
That morning she wakes up to loads of hover cars flying over the smoke. Tally runs outside and everywhere their are cruel pretties, and that could only mean Special Circumstances were there. She quickly threw herself against the wall hoping no one saw her. When she bumps into a fellow smokie they call "Boss." The Boss hands her a box of a substance that works like pepper spray. When a special sees them, Tally uses the substance and the Boss makes a run for the woods. Tally runs but is spotted and tackled by a different cruel pretty and is handcuffed and brought to the rabbit pen when are the captured smokies are contained. Tally is put in the section labeled "Armed resistors." As they wait Shay is brought in and is furious with Tally. Shay starts yelling and Tally and telling her it was all her fault, when a cruel pretty comes and takes Tally away to Dr. Cable. She tells Tally about how the locket would be activated if any damage happened to it. Then, she asks Tally where it was and Dr. Cable has a cruel pretty take Tally to where he said the necklace was. Even though it was actually melted. When up their she is able to kick the cruel pretty over the edge and takes Cory's hover board and quickly leaves. Hovercrafts try to catch her but she is able to get away and hide in a cave. Then, out of now where David appears from farther back. The next day, her and David travel back to the smoke and find it deserted. They decide to make their way to the city. Tally knows the other smokies will be at special circumstances so once they get close they decide to go there. They have to figure out a quick way to get in and they cant get close to the fence or touch the group because it will set off the alarm. So they make a jump from their hover boards and are able to land on top of the building. They make it in and find where all the smokies from Tally's city are. Shay comes out as a pretty. She tells Tally how happy she is that she's pretty now, but Tally knows its all from having a pretty brain because during the surgery they don't only change your looks but your mind also. Out comes Cory and Maddy and they all run out and are able to make it to the Rusties on their hover boards. Once they are their for a while Maddy thinks she come up with a pill to get rid of the lesions. However, Shay refuses to take it and none of the other people among them have it because they are not pretty. So Tally volunteers and says that she will become pretty, then come back and take the pills. David argues that she can't leave because being pretty will change her mind. Her and shay travel back to the city and just like that, ugly Tally Youngblood is gone. And now, she is one of the new pretties.
My Response
I thought the first half and second half were both great, but also very different. The first half was very low key and mostly just introducing you to the characters. However, the second half if very dramatic with all of its such as the special circumstances taking over the smoke, Tally and David braking in, and then the Tally, David, and Maddy's fight about curing the cancer in New Pretties heads. I find the Second half of the book much more intriguing with the all the drama between Shay an Tally and David and Tally and pretty much everyone. I thought that all these made the second half of "The Uglies" a fantastic page turner story that will leave you on the edge of your seat.
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