Review also posted at The Wandering Fangirl.

I really loved [b:Uglies|24770|Uglies (Uglies, #1)|Scott Westerfeld|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1296159834s/24770.jpg|2895388]. It was in the first wave of books I read when I began to read dystopian YA in earnest, and I was completely sucked into Tally's world. She was interesting, I loved the world building, I wanted to know more about all the secondary characters she met along the way. We even got to interview Scott Westerfeld about the manga accompaniment to [b:Uglies|24770|Uglies (Uglies, #1)|Scott Westerfeld|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1296159834s/24770.jpg|2895388] at Girls Read Comics Too, and I'm excited to read it. So, when I finally cracked into Pretties, I was crushed at how much I didn't enjoy it. It makes sense that Tally would be a bit changed after going through the pretty surgery, but it was just so jarring -- she wasn't the same girl I'd come to love. On top of it all, the increased pretty-talk really got to me, and I had to stop reading before I saw another "bubbly" and punched myself in the face like a "crim" until I was "brain-less."

Maybe I'll give it another chance some day, now that I know what I'm getting into. I just knew that when it was time to take it back to the library and I hadn't finished it yet, I didn't care enough to get the book renewed.