Uglies
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By Scott Westerfeld
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Tally lives in a world where your sixteenth birthday brings aesthetic perfection: an operation which erases all your flaws, transforming you from an ‘Ugly’ into a ‘Pretty’. She is on the eve of this important event, and cannot wait for her life to change. As well as guaranteeing supermodel looks, life as a Pretty seems to revolve around having a good time. But then she meets Shay, who is also fifteen – but with a very different outlook on life. Shay isn’t sure she wants to be Pretty and plans to escape to a community in the forest – the Rusty Ruins – where Uglies go to escape ’ turning’. Tally won’t be persuaded to join her, as this would involve sacrificing everything she’s ever wanted for a lot of uncertainty. When she is taken in for questioning on her birthday, however, Tally gets sent to the Ruins anyway – against her will. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she could ever imagine: find her friend Shay and turn her in, or never turn Pretty at all. What she discovers in the Ruins reveals that there is nothing ‘pretty’ about the transformations…And the choice Tally makes will change her world forever.
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Uglies is an interesting story that grips you the whole way through! It is fast paced and extremely hard to put down.
It is a very interesting book and when I started it I thought it would be boring but it was really interesting because it is set in the future.
Uglies is a fantastic dystopia book for teens. It takes place in a future where everyone is classed as 'ugly' until their sixteenth birthday, when they go through lots of plastic surgery to bring them up to the accepted standard of beauty.
Tally Youngblood is fifteen. She eagerly anticipates her operation so that she can be reunited with her best friend Peris, who has already turned. But then she meets Shay, who has the same birthday as Tally. Shay isn't so sure she wants to turn pretty. She's heard of a seemingly better alternative...
Uglies is a really exciting book filled with details of a thought-provoking dystopia and a touch of romance. Follow Tally as she leaves the safety of her city home into the banned area that is home to the Smokies.
The only faults i could pick out in this were a few under-developed characters, but this is mostly rectified in the second book (Pretties). Also, towards the end it gets a bit predictable.
So, to conclude, Uglies is a thrilling dystopia that is set in a world maybe not too far from ours today. I would recommend to 12+ dystopia fans :-)
