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Book 1: Chantelle "The Uglies"



Book Review from [|Goodreads]: Playing on every teen’s passionate desire to look as good as everybody else, Scott Westerfeld (Midnighters) projects a future world in which a compulsory operation at sixteen wipes out physical differences and makes everyone pretty by conforming to an ideal standard of beauty. The "New Pretties" are then free to play and party, while the younger "Uglies" look on enviously and spend the time before their own transformations in plotting mischievous tricks against their elders. Tally Youngblood is one of the most daring of the Uglies, and her imaginative tricks have gotten her in trouble with the menacing department of Special Circumstances. She has yearned to be pretty, but since her best friend Shay ran away to the rumored rebel settlement of recalcitrant Uglies called The Smoke, Tally has been troubled. The authorities give her an impossible choice: either she follows Shay’s cryptic directions to The Smoke with the purpose of betraying the rebels, or she will never be allowed to become pretty. Hoping to rescue Shay, Tally sets off on the dangerous journey as a spy. But after finally reaching The Smoke she has a change of heart when her new lover David reveals to her the sinister secret behind becoming pretty. The fast-moving story is enlivened by many action sequences in the style of videogames, using intriguing inventions like hoverboards that use the rider’s skateboard skills to skim through the air, and bungee jackets that make wild downward plunges survivable -- and fun. Behind all the commotion is the disturbing vision of our own society -- the Rusties -- visible only in rusting ruins after a virus destroyed all petroleum. Teens will be entranced, and the cliffhanger ending will leave them gasping for the sequel.

My Review: I read this book and I thought that it was a great book. It makes you think about the future of our world and the possibilities for future inventions. I liked how there was twists and turns and then unexspected twist. I liked how in pretty town there was not very many rules and there was parties all the time. I think that that would have been so fun to go and live there. I liked how, the main charaters best friend, Shay wasn't afraid to live on the edge and to go with what she felt was right. To run away and try to get away from the crazy city. Some things that I didn't like were that she doesn't get to be with her childhood friend Peris alot not until the end a little.They are separated and that is so sad. She doesn't turn pretty for along time when her friends all do. I love how Tally finds who she is and who she really wants to be. That she doesn't need to be pretty to be or feel the way she wants to. I overall loved it and can't wait to read the next book.

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