The plot is fast paced and action packed. Tally's clique, the Crims, engages in a stunt that melts a floating ice rink and sends them all crashing to the ground, but as they were all wearing bungee jackets, they were safe. There, the utmost care is taken with safety for the various completely dangerous activities that residents can partake in. Tally is one of the "new-pretties" and as such lives in New Pretty town and will until she's a middle pretty. One of the strongest aspects of Westerfeld's writing comes in his world making. The premise behind this world is that all kids have a surgery on their sixteenth birthday that beautifies them, and also obviously does something else-otherwise the new pretties wouldn't be running around with no cares in the world but partying and having fun. This remains one of the strongest dystopian series I've read, and I daresay I've read a few. As is the case with all fast paced books, I had almost finished it by the time I left. I was at a library yesterday and saw Westerfeld and picked up Pretties to kill time. I must have reread them at least twice, but I hadn't done so again in a while. I read the Uglies quartet back in middle school and absolutely adored them.
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