Week 7- The Maryest of Sues

Hi! So… a lot has happened since last week. Tally is still the biggest doormat ever, but now she's a doormat on an ~ADVENTURE~.

First of all, she met some girl named Shay who was probably was voted “Most Likely To Accidentally Kill Herself” and is against the idea of making people ‘pretty' and that people before this procedure are ‘ugly.' In my opinion, Shay definitely seems more like a main character than Tally. But instead we're seeing everything from Tally's point of view because… reasons. I guess because of what happens next: Shay tells Tally about a place called the Smoke where everyone is ugly. Because Shay knows about it and Tally is an outsider like the reader, Tally is the one telling the story. That's basically it. And from what I can tell, she really is a Mary Sue, just like I predicted, but I'll get to that later.
Shay disappears, and leaves Tally some cryptic instructions to get to the Smoke if she wants. Then these random guys come out of nowhere and say, “Hey, so, you can't turn pretty until you find Shay and the Smoke because of course only you can find it. After all, even though we've totally been spying on you, there's no way we could just listen to your conversations and figure out the right directions, because that would make the problem solve itself. And of course you care enough about being pretty that you'll do it for us.” Not impressed, Scott.

So, the Mary Sue thing. I was expecting most of the book to be the epic adventure of deciphering the instructions and almost dying multiple times in a thrilling adventure that is adventurously adventurous. Instead, it took maybe five chapters and I still have about half of the book left. C'mon, Scott. Not only did it take no time, but things that should have killed her like FALLING OFF A CLIFF didn't even faze her. Now she's safely at the Smoke as a secret spy. And only one person suspects her, so of course the leader of the city defended her without knowing anything about her. And she's adjusting perfectly to a place that couldn't be more different from the only place she's ever lived. You could have TRIED making her a realistic character, Scott. Work with me here.

There seems to be a big plot twist coming up literally on the next page, though, so maybe my opinion so far will change. Overall, it's not a bad book, it's just a ‘meh' book.