When she is taken in for questioning on her birthday, however, Tally gets sent to the Ruins anyway - against her will. Tally won't be persuaded to join her, as this would involve sacrificing everything she's ever wanted for a lot of uncertainty. Shay isn't sure she wants to be Pretty and plans to escape to a community in the forest - the Rusty Ruins - where Uglies go to escape "turning". But then she meets Shay, who is also 15 - but with a very different outlook on life. As well as guaranteeing supermodel looks, life as a Pretty seems to revolve around having a good time. She is on the eve of this important event and cannot wait for her life to change. (Sept.Tally lives in a world where your 16th birthday brings aesthetic perfection: an operation that erases all your flaws, transforming you from an "Ugly" into a "Pretty". This is definitely a story to get the brain working. Alternate chapters about parasites provide compelling (and appropriately disgusting) details about their small but powerful world.
cards and, like other government workers, spends a lot of his time filling in forms), and he faces off against other victims and encounters plenty of rats.
The book brims with great details (Cal can make himself fake I.D. While they may have trouble making sense of all the pieces, readers will enjoy the scientific reasoning behind vampirism, and will likely get sucked into the conspiracy with Cal. He also finds a love interest in the strong-willed journalism student now living in Morgan's old building, but because of the disease he cannot act on his feelings. As Cal begins to track Morgan, the woman who infected him after a drunken one-night stand, he stumbles upon a mystery that eventually makes him question the very organization for which he works. The 19-year-old works for Night Watch, the city's ancient peep-hunting organization. , he only experiences some effects, such as night vision. Fortunately, Cal is "partly immune," so while he is parasite-positive Right after Cal Thompson moves from Texas to New York for college, he loses his virginity and become infected with the parasite that causes vampirism. , Westerfeld creates an engaging conspiracy set in New York City, filling his novel with provocative facts, this time about parasites.
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