By Scott Westerfeld
In the future children are "Uglies" until they turn 16. On their 16th birthday they get to become "Pretties" by surgery. Tally, a rule breaking teen befriends a girl named Shay. Shay is unsure about the surgery and runs away. When Tally's 16th birthday comes Tally must make an awful decision:she must either betray and turn in Shay or never turn "Pretty" and be "Ugly" forever.
This book caught my attention from the start. I guess it’s interesting, what beauty really is. That’s pretty much what the characters and plot are wrapped around-whether or not pretty is really pretty and whether ugly is indeed all that bad. Tally is a great character with depth. Her journey to the Smoke is great fun, and having David show her that ugly can be beautiful was really neat. The characters are complex and the story has a lot of depth and tries to reach out to people who think being pretty is the only thing in life. It’s a great future based book, its interesting to think of anyway.
In the future children are "Uglies" until they turn 16. On their 16th birthday they get to become "Pretties" by surgery. Tally, a rule breaking teen befriends a girl named Shay. Shay is unsure about the surgery and runs away. When Tally's 16th birthday comes Tally must make an awful decision:she must either betray and turn in Shay or never turn "Pretty" and be "Ugly" forever.
This book caught my attention from the start. I guess it’s interesting, what beauty really is. That’s pretty much what the characters and plot are wrapped around-whether or not pretty is really pretty and whether ugly is indeed all that bad. Tally is a great character with depth. Her journey to the Smoke is great fun, and having David show her that ugly can be beautiful was really neat. The characters are complex and the story has a lot of depth and tries to reach out to people who think being pretty is the only thing in life. It’s a great future based book, its interesting to think of anyway.
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