Uglies

By Scott Westerfeld

Genre: Young Adult

 

       Uglies is about a girl named Tally. This book takes place in the future after everything has gone wrong. The government created a surgery that makes you pretty. Almost everybody has this surgery once they turn sixteen. Tally has looked forward to becoming pretty her entire life. Her best friend turned pretty just a months before Tally. That meant they would not see each other in tell Tally tuned pretty. For Tally, the months dragged by slowly. She ends up making friends with Shay. Shay teaches tally to hover board and eventually tells tally that she is going to run off to a place called Smoke. Tally chooses not to go along and to turn pretty. When tally goes to the hospital to have the operation, she is sent to another place called Special Circumstances. She meets a person named Dr. Cable. Dr. Cable threatens that if she does not go after Shay and find the place called Smoke, she will never turn pretty.

 

       I really liked this book. The book was not super descriptive but it still gave me a very vivid image of what this world looked like and everything that happened in the book. I also liked the plot of the book. It seemed so unreal but at the same time I was thinking, "What if this ends up happening? How? and Why?" It was also fun to both try to predict what the choice would lead to (I was never right) and would I have make that decision? I think that this book is not a quick read but I would definitely recommend this book to anybody and everybody.