I'll be hanging out with Jacob and a bunch of other cool folks late tonight, come chill and raise money for the PCRF with us!
The dramatic cover featuring haunting breathy vocals and sparse instrumentals interrupted by massive drum hits aligning with "just might get" and ending on an ascending triplet line in the strings will be played in every aerial class I take for a full year
It's a sophomoric Really Makes You Think thing, sure, but I was like 14 and it did in fact really make me think! I think these books were really served by not having to actually show what "pretty" and "ugly" look like and I know it was bound to be disappointing but I am indeed disappointed.
The thing I remember most about this series, the ONE THING that has stuck with me for like two decades, is that there's a scene in Pretties, I think, where Tally finds a Rusty fashion magazine in a library and looks at a photo of a model and says "oh god, she's so ugly!"
Ok listen I know there was no way for this to go except to have the Uglies played by very pretty actors and the Pretties played by very pretty actors but with color contacts and balayage but actually seeing it play out that way is deeply disappointing!!
Ok yeah 13-year-old me is extremely satisfied the literal word for word last line of the book is here. Better than Artemis Fowl. A low bar but it has been cleared.
Wait I actually love Tally holding Shay's dress so she can run, I swear this book was not this gay I'm obsessed!
30 minutes in and nobody has used the word "bubbly" I'm rioting
Holy shit was this book this gay? Was I that closeted?