The Pretties

I love to read and I wanted to make sure that the book I choose would be interesting enough for me to want to read it all. First I chose a book about a young teen who had schizophrenia. It was good at the start, but it became quite confusing because the girl's thoughts were all so random and I wasn't understanding. I decided to change my book to "The Pretties" by Scott Westerfeld. It is a science fiction series and The Pretties is the second book out of four. I have already read the first one called "The Uglies" and it was really good. The Uglies is about a world of people who just live normally but are ugly and all have pretty parents. Everyone has to turn pretty when they are 16. The only way an ugly can not become pretty is if they escape Uglyville and run away to the ruins. The main character Tally becomes best friend with a girl named Shay. Shay doesn't want to turn pretty so she runs away to the ruins and leaves Tally behind. The only way Tally could become pretty according to the Specials, was if she went to the ruins and found Shay. From there she would have to rat everyone out so that the Specials can make everyone pretty. In the end everyone does become pretty. In The Pretties, Tally and her new friends recieve these pills from their friends from the ruins and take them. The pills help them slowly become not pretty. The reason they do not want to be pretty is because being pretty causes lesions in your brain and doesn't make you think for yourself. The series sounds very very confusing but that is because I am bad at explaing things. I am almost done The Pretties and I am quite excited.