Outside Reading Post #2

Tally reaches the Pretty party, and finally finds her old best friend Peris, but not after many peopole see her and realize she is an ugly. Peris helps her escape, and tells her she can never come back until she's Pretty, to stay safe, and Tally believes thats the only reason he doesn't want her to come back. On her escape away from the party, after bungee jumping off the roof of the party tower, and running through the "pleasure gardens" to get out of the Pretty Town, Tally runs into another Ugly, Shay, who becomes her new best friend. They find that they have the same birthday, and start connecting even more. Tally is so excited to become a Pretty, but it seems that Shay is kind of hesitant, and thinks that the whole idea of the operation is wrong, and everyone being the same is not appealing. I kind of agree with Shay, because I really think that everyone getting an operation at age 16 so that they can all be the same is a really weird idea, but to everyone in this book, it's normal. At the part of the book I am now, Shay has convinced Tally to sneak out into the "Old City" on their hoverboards. I'm beginning to realize that this book is about sometime in the future, and whenever they talk about the "old city", it's one of our modern cities today.