Warning: This is the second book in a series. If you haven't read the first book, "Uglies", you may not want to read this.
Pretties 
by Scott Westerfeld in my opinion was even better then the first book,Uglies.
It's a wonderful YA novel. You have suspense just like the first book did. Maybe more. You have a love story, that seems to be branching into a love triangle and you have your almost heart breaking moments. The book has you asking questions, and wanting to the know the answers as soon as possible. The book leaves you wanting more.
Pretties
picks up right where Uglies left off. Tally turned herself into the Specials so they'd make her pretty. Tally didn't want to be pretty anymore, but she had to test the medicine David's mom made. She had to save her friend Shay, since she's the one who technically screwed Shay's life up. When Tally left, she left with some uncertainties. We as in the readers and Tally don't know if David would forgive her or if they were officially over forever. Unfortunately after the surgery to become pretty, almost all of your memories and feelings from the ugly days are forgotten. Tally forgot the only boy she ever loved. The only person who made her feel pretty without truly meeting the worlds pretty standards. She forgot David. Tally made friends with a clique called the Crims who all remembered they're really bubbly moments. The night Tally was suppose to be officially voted into the clique, some of her ugly pals snuck in to the party in New Pretty Town and left her with a message. Leaving herself greatly confused, still not really remembering anything from the ugly days. Soon after a relationship blooms between Tally & another pretty from the Crims. It's up to them to try and remember what's going on. They have to get their minds back, and lead themselves and their friends out of the city. In which mayhem and hell break loose. Leaving Tally the opportunity to uncover some more truth as to where the Specials found out what exactly to change in an uglies mind.
There's was no struggle getting into this book, like there had been with first one. The first book left me with too many questions, in which I was determined to find out. I liked the new Crim guy Tally was dating, but the whole time she was trying to remember her past, I was thinking... DAVID....hello??? What about him. The people in the smoke? Come on now. Think! The book definitely had my attention the whole time. They had to do some pretty crazy stuff in attempts to get their memories back, and get out. I can't wait to start the third book, Specials.
Rating 3 out 5.
Uglies
by Scott Westerfeld is a very interesting YA novel. The world is filled with such extreme beauty any one who looks normal is ugly. I found it interesting because to me it's amazing what people today will do to have the perfect body, and even though this book takes place in the future, the lengths in which people will go to be perfect are still extreme. It has suspense and of course that cute love story every teen or young adult wants to read about.
Tally Youngblood is going to turn sixteen in three months. At the age of sixteen you get surgery to go from being ugly to being extremely pretty. Tally and her ugly friends have always played tricks and snuck around getting into things they shouldn't have. So when her best friend Peris turned pretty before she did , he moved to New Pretty Town. She decided to sneak out to see him. Whenever you move, you can come visit your old ugly friends, but they're not allowed to visit you, however; Pretties never come back. Tally assumed it was just because New Pretty town was so amazing. It didn't have any rules, any curfews, no one ever fought, you could sleep in as long as you wanted, and party all night long. On the way out Tally met another ugly who snuck in. Her name was Shay. They soon discovered they shared the same birthday and would turn together. They became best friends. Tally had everything planned out she knew exactly how she wanted to look. Shay didn't really seem to care. A couple nights before their birthday Shay told Tally about an ugly settlement out in the wild. They called themselves the Smoke and they lived out there hiding from the Pretties government. Shay wanted to go, Tally thought she was crazy, who didn't want to be pretty? Shay left her encoded instructions about how to get there just in case she changed her mind. On the day of Tally's birthday, scary looking pretties came and picked her up. They called themselves Special Circumstance. They gave Tally two options. Bring Shay back, or stay ugly forever. Tally had always dreamed of being pretty, and the way Special Circumstance said it, it sounded like Shay was in danger. She went to find her. Special Circumstance told her when she found her just to activate a location tracker so they could bring in all the kids from the Smoke and help them. Tally had a rather treacherous adventure ahead of her to be traveling alone. Once locating them, she soon realized how happy they were. She became good friends with them. Within the few days she was there, Tally learned some secrets about the pretty surgery that ended up making it sound not so pretty. Who was telling the truth the wild Smokies or the Special Circumstance? She had a hard time deciding if she should activate the tracker or not. The choice she ended up making led to catastrophic results.
I'll be honest, it took me a little while to really get into this book. It was never boring, I think it was just the writing style. It took me a bit to get use too. Once I got use to it though, I really enjoyed the booked and just seeing how things developed in it. It gave you glimpses of the past before the "pretties" existed and you got to see how it developed into the world it was. It got somewhat suspenseful, and I found myself wanting to know more and more. I couldn't read it fast enough. It was kind of scary to think about, because as fast as technology is developing I honestly think the things in this book could really end up being the future. It may be a ways out yet, but scientists could get there. I just started the sequel, and I only took a break from reading it to blog. I honestly can't wait to get back to it. I think a love triangle is beginning to bloom in this Uglies Series
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Review 3.5 out of 5
Warning: This is the last book in a trilogy if you haven't the first two books you may not want to read this.
Allegiant 
by Veronica Roth got some seriously hateful reviews. I understand why some people were upset by certain things in the book, but if you can over look the emotionally traumatizing parts of it, it's still amazing. It's a very well written first person perspective book. The only thing that differed between this book and the first two books is that it has two perspectives. One chapter was Tobias's view, and the next was Beatrice's view, however; this just made me love Veronica's novel even more.
Allegiant
picks up where Insurgent 
leaves off. Beatrice is locked in a cell awaiting a trial from the factionless members. The factions have been completely taken over and disassembled by Evelyn and her people. The biggest secret of all time has just been released. Evelyn chooses to ignore it. She wants nothing to do with the outside world, however; Beatrice & her friends want to go. They want to join the Allegiant and get out of Evelyn's dictatorship like grasp before another war breaks out. A war now between the faction lovers and the people who were never accepted by them. What's really beyond the border? Was all of the secret revealed or will there be more to it? They're running out of patience and out time to find out. If they're going to go, they have to go now. Time. Will there ever be enough of it to amend family issues or is there a line drawn in which some matters are simply unforgivable?
I'll be honest the twist at the end got me. Like I said, I get why people were upset, but I don't get why they just hated the book. I thought the route Veronica chose to go with the story was realistic, and beautifully painful. It was hard for me to process everything at first. I think I was just in denial,but I think her choice made me respect more as an author, because she, herself became dauntless. Her decision was unbelievably brave. She knew what she wanted. Fan response, and she definitely got it.Divergent Trilogy
is a must read!
Rating 4 out of 5
Warning: If you haven't read Divergent
the first to this trilogy, you may not want to read this review.
Insurgent
by Veronica Roth is the second book in a trilogy. It's another first person perspective book that I really love. The suspense builds higher and higher with every page.
This book picks up right where Divergent
left off. Beatrice wakes from a nightmare about the massacre that took place in the Abnegation faction. She and the other survivors are staying with Amity. The factions are on the brink of war, but Amity chooses to stay out of it. Beatrice hears Marcus tell Johanna, the Amity's leader, that the Abnegation leaders died protecting a very important secret. She's determined to find out what it is. Amity's peaceful refuge doesn't stay peaceful for long. The Erudites and Dauntless traitors want the Abnegation survivors. They want the Divergent. A gun fight breaks out and Beatrice and her friends make a narrow escape, losing some people on the way. They must determine the next plan of action which leads to the biggest betrayal no one would have ever expected & the revealing of a secret that could destroy the factions. Forever.
This, just like the first book should not be started late at night, because you won't want to put it down. There's so much suspense that builds up in it. Veronica Roth definitely knows how to suck readers in. You literally want to laugh when the characters laugh, and cry when they cry. It's so easy to put yourself into her books. I couldn't read it fast enough. I had to know what the secret was, and if all my favorite characters would live long enough to be in the next book. The unexpected twists and the betrayal. Oh the betrayal! My heart physically ached for characters.The secret was pretty crazy too. If you haven't read the Divergent Trilogy
yet, i'm telling you now that it is a must!
Rating 5 out of 5.
"Divergent" by Veronica Roth is an extremely adventurous book. It's another first person perspective book that I fell madly in love with. It's your typical YA book with a couple of twists. There's a love story or two, different betrayals, and it's action packed.
Teenage Beatrice Prior is just about to have her choosing ceremony. Her choice could change her life forever. She can choose to stay in her own faction, stay in the area she grew up, be an Abnegation forever, or she can transfer to a different faction. Here's the catch if she transfers there's no going back. No family visits. It's faction before blood. Here's the next catch if you transfer you have an initiation process at the new faction. If you fail, you're factionless forever. Forced to live in the almost uninhabitable parts of the city. Will Beatrice transfer & go after a new life or will she stay an Abnegation forever? Stay with her family.
This is honestly one of my favorite books. The first one out of a trilogy. I loved all three of them. There's so many different twists in not only this book, but the trilogy as a whole. The book made me think a lot. It had me in it's grasp from the first page. It's a book you don't want to start late at night because I promise once you start reading it you don't want to set it down until it's done.
Rating 5 out of 5
Warning: If you haven't read the first book Matched
I would not read the review for it's sequel, Crossed. 
Ally Condie continues Cassia & Ky's dangerous journey with Crossed.
Something I really loved about this book besides the first person perspective, was that there was more then one perspective. I loved that one chapter was from Cassia's view, then the next was Ky's view. This way even though they were separated you still knew what was going on.
The first book ended with Ky and the other male Aberrations being sent away to play decoys in the middle of a war zone. The officials promised full citizenship status back to those who served out there for six months, however; the Aberrations aren't fools. No one survives in the outer provinces that long. Ky's memories of Cassia is all that gets him through the day. The dream of one day seeing her again. Ky makes a couple new pals all longing to escape. How would they though? There's no where to run. No where, until they get stationed at a certain camp. Ky's original home before he moved to the inner provinces, and he remembers something. In order for there to be any chance of his plan working he'll have to leave almost everyone behind to die. Can he do it? Back in the inner provinces Cassia left Xander behind and is still trying to escape the city and go after Ky, however she's running out of time. Xander's still holding on to hope he can eventually win Cassia's heart, but he understands the importance of finding Ky so he gave her some things she could use on her journey. However the things he gave her are questionable. Will they help or cause more harm?
Cassia is staying at a reformatory work camp, when officials come for Aberration girls making them go play decoys right in the middle of the war zone too. In which Cassia finds her way out. She pretends to be an Aberration War zone or not she knows Ky has to be out there some where. The only question on her mind now is, once she is outside the walls can she stay alive long enough to find him?
This book is a little more suspenseful the the first one, but just as enjoyable. How many more secrets is the society hiding? Just like the first book I'd highly recommend this one too! The rebellious nature, the realization of how many choices were really taken away, the love story is just precious, but how long will it take for this love triangle to really be solved? How much would you risk to get the ones you love back?
I'd rate this 4 out of 5.
Ally Condie created the perfect dystopian love story. I'm not usually very big on the whole romantic aspect of books, but this book and it's sequels definitely held my attention. One of my favorite things about Matched
was the writing style. It's from a first person perspective so I get to read it as myself. I sincerely love books written in a first person perspective because it makes it that much easier to really put yourself into book & connect with the characters.
Teenage Cassia Reyes believes she lives in the perfect society. You never have to feel the weight of being pressured by anything because the officials choose everything for you. EVERYTHING. They choose when you eat, what you eat, how much you eat, where you work, when your free time is, what music you can listen too, who you get to fall in love with, and when you should die. What's not to love right? Assuming you get to love at all, they might just nominate you to be a Single. Forever Alone. The match system is perfect. The officials match you once you turn seventeen. You get a big banquet, then they pair you off with someone you've never met. You get a microcard to study up on your match. Matched at seventeen, marriage contracts at 21, and you can have two kids as long as you have them before 30, and you die on your 80th birthday. It's all based on genes & common interests. Don't get to many citations though, they may just write you up as an aberration or worse! An anomaly. Luckily for Cassia she knows her match. They're best friends actually, grew up in the same borough even. Very rare. A couple to be jealous of for sure. Everything was just perfect until there was a mishap with her microcard. When she plugged it in, her match didn't come up. Another boy did. The irony is that Cassia realizes she knows this boy too. She knows the microcard was an accident, but she still can't help, but be curious. She sets off on a path of forbidden interests, only to discover how unperfect the society really is, and the dark secrets it harbors.
In my opinion Matched
is a must read, it's not as gory and gruesome as other dystopian novels such as The Hunger Games Trilogy 
or The Maze Runner Trilogy
, but it's still plenty action packed. It has a good subliminal message & it's one of the cutest love stories.
Rating 4 out of 5.
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by Ally Condie is the third & final book to the 
. This book threw in a third point of view into the mix. We get to know Xander a bit more. Seeing things from his perspective along with Cassia & Ky's. I can honestly say I loved this trilogy from beginning to end. One of the best things about it is that even though there are some sad parts the ending is relatively happier then any other dystopian novel I have ever read!.jpeg)
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