Family...

Tally went to talk to Dr. Cable and she told her that she got there a few days ago and that once she was sure that that was the right SMoke she activated the pendant and she told her that she hid so Dr. Cable told her to go and look for it. She went to the top of there roof where her hover boar was charging but she couldn't reach it because it was at the other side of the roof and a Special was guarding her. Her plan was to get a hoverboard that was near her and jump of the roof but she begun to loose balance and almost felt but the Special saved her and he felt instead but in no time he was back on the roof without any injuries or any pain. Tally continued to pretended to be looking for the pendent but instead she snapped her fingers and the hoverboard came to her knocking the Special's feet he felt of the roof again giving Tally time to jump in the hoverboard. Tally was able to scape but she was chased by hovercars. They where detecting her by the heat of her body so she went to the tunnel on the mountain that was very cold and she hoped that the hovercars weren't be able to detect her there. Then when the sound of the hovercars where gone she said to her self out loud that she was practically dead. Then she heard a voice form behind her. It was David. Both of them waited to next morning to go out the mountain but before they go Tally told David that she will help him find his parent wherever they where, in Smoke or in the city. Then they went to look for David parents and look for food. On theirs way there they had to go through Smoke. They passed through the place where the library was but now it was gone. The Specials destroyed it with all the books and magazines inside because they didn't wanted people to get used to ugly faces on the magazines, normal faces. They they continued and the passed through the place where Tally first tried to scape with the Boss. She looked around and found the bag full of magazines that the Boss wanted to protects and then she found the Boss' dead body. When they got to David's parents house they saw that it was all burned. Tally went inside to look for David parents but they weren't there. Then David took Tally to a cave near the house here they keep dehydrated food, water purifiers, clothes, sleeping bags and hoverboards. After the eat, they left at sunset. They approximated that their journey would last about ten days. When they got to the desert they decided to stop because of the day light. They rested and eat on a building that was held-destoyed that the Rusties builded. They talked about how did the Rusties destroyed their wold and depended on many things. Some days had passed and they finally got to the Rusty Ruins. For Tally they looked a lot smaller than they used too and less scarier. Finally they could see the city They only had a few hours before the sunrise to get to Special Circumstances. Tally and David climbed a building to get a better view of Special Circumstances. They planed to jump form there to get to the other side of the sensor wire using Bungee jackets. They where about to go to Uglyville to get the Bungee jackets when they heard steps coming towards them. The steps where form 3 girls that where visiting the Rusty Ruins. Tally convinced them to help them with their prank. At night the 3 girls went to Pretty Town and used glitter to write THE SMOKE LIVES in the sky for just a few moments, then it disappear. Tally and David got the Bungee jackets and throw themselves form a building and where successful to get to the other side without activating the alarms.  When they got in to the actual building, they looked for Smokies all around the building but they didn't found anything until they got to a door that said "Long-Term Detention" and she heard that familiar voices came out form that room. Then Dr. Cable got out of the room with Shay but Shay was a Pretty now. David electroshocked Dr. Cable and she was unconscious on the floor. Shay told Tally that she had just arrived from a party and that she is glad to hear that things are good between Tally and David. The rest of Smokies where inside that room too but they where still uglies. They where able to free them and they took Dr. Cable with them. They went to the roof so they could scape and David insisted on asking where was his dad and his mother told him that he was dead.

"Maybe they didn't want you to realise that every civilisation has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on." (346)

In the book Tally and David are talking of how the Rusties destroyed the world. WHen they talked about the Rusties they are referring to us, our generation. According to them, our world is going to end because of a bacteria that affects petroleum and makes it explode on contact with oxygen, that is why our society collapsed, because we depend a lot in petroleum. Tally thought that their society was perfect and that it could never happened what happened to the Rusties because they had renewable energy, sustainable resources and a fixed population but it doesn't only happen this with economics but this also could happen with ideas. The idea of being Pretty or Ugly in this society might be its weakness.

"Tally's free and barefoot.' They left her with a score of pairs to pick from..." (329)

In This part of the book, Croy was able to see Tally escaping but she wasn't wearing shoes so she took of his shoes and spread the word "Tally's free and barefoot" so everyone left their shoes for Tally to pick from. This shows a act of solidarity towards Tally because all of them left there their shoes just for her. They acted like a united community or better, they acted like a supportive family. They really cared about Tally and they where worried for her. They want her to be able to be free. But even though she betrayed them they still loved her and did everything possible to help her.

I really like this book. It was full of adventures. In each page I read something new and interesting happened. It has a little bit of everything: love, action, drama. I really look froward to read the second book "Pretties". I highly recommend this book to people who are about my age 14-15 years old.