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Helpful Score: 8
Despite having loved Uglies, I spent much of the time feeling disappointed while reading Pretties.
The relationship between Zane and Tally never felt natural or convincing in the way her relationship with David was. The book retreads too much territory covered in the first book, merely changing the nature of tricks while tediously avoiding progress and revelation about the world and its social conflict. It only got interesting to me about 4/5ths of the way through... and even then, there were no surprises because the twists Westerfeld uses were all on display in Uglies, and this book follows formula rather than significantly expanding the mythos.
That said - I do like the series, and have high hopes for book 3. Its just a shame that you have to read book 2 to get there.
I rate it 3 of 5, based on the momentum of book one.
The relationship between Zane and Tally never felt natural or convincing in the way her relationship with David was. The book retreads too much territory covered in the first book, merely changing the nature of tricks while tediously avoiding progress and revelation about the world and its social conflict. It only got interesting to me about 4/5ths of the way through... and even then, there were no surprises because the twists Westerfeld uses were all on display in Uglies, and this book follows formula rather than significantly expanding the mythos.
That said - I do like the series, and have high hopes for book 3. Its just a shame that you have to read book 2 to get there.
I rate it 3 of 5, based on the momentum of book one.
