"Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

  Uglies by Scott Westerfeld is a very interesting YA novel. The world is filled with such extreme beauty any one who looks normal is ugly. I found it interesting because to me it's amazing what people today will do to have the perfect body, and even though this book takes place in the future, the lengths in which people will go to be perfect are still extreme. It has suspense and of course that cute love story every teen or young adult wants to read about.



 Tally Youngblood is going to turn sixteen in three months. At the age of sixteen you get surgery to go from being ugly to being extremely pretty. Tally and her ugly friends have always played tricks and snuck around getting into things they shouldn't have. So when her best friend Peris turned pretty before she did , he moved to New Pretty Town. She decided to sneak out to see him. Whenever you move, you can come visit your old ugly friends, but they're not allowed to visit you, however; Pretties never come back. Tally assumed it was just because New Pretty town was so amazing. It didn't have any rules, any curfews, no one ever fought, you could sleep in as long as you wanted, and party all night long. On the way out Tally met another ugly who snuck in. Her name was Shay. They soon discovered they shared the same birthday and would turn together. They became best friends. Tally had everything planned out she knew exactly how she wanted to look. Shay didn't really seem to care. A couple nights before their birthday Shay told Tally about an ugly settlement out in the wild. They called themselves the Smoke and they lived out there hiding from the Pretties government. Shay wanted to go, Tally thought she was crazy, who didn't want to be pretty? Shay left her encoded instructions about how to get there just in case she changed her mind. On the day of Tally's birthday, scary looking pretties came and picked her up. They called themselves Special Circumstance. They gave Tally two options. Bring Shay back, or stay ugly forever.  Tally had always dreamed of being pretty, and the way Special Circumstance said it, it sounded like Shay was in danger. She went to find her. Special Circumstance told her when she found her just to activate a location tracker so they could bring in all the kids from the Smoke and help them. Tally had a rather treacherous adventure ahead of her to be traveling alone. Once locating them, she soon realized how happy they were. She became good friends with them.  Within the few days  she was there, Tally learned some secrets about the pretty surgery that ended up making it sound not so pretty. Who was telling the truth the wild Smokies or the Special Circumstance? She had a hard time deciding if she should activate the tracker or not. The choice she ended up making led to catastrophic results.



 I'll be honest, it took me a little while to really get into this book. It was never boring,  I think it was just the writing style. It took me a bit to get use too. Once I got use to it though, I really enjoyed the booked and just seeing how things developed in it. It gave you glimpses of the past  before the "pretties" existed and you got to see how it developed into the world it was. It got somewhat suspenseful, and I found myself wanting to know more and more. I couldn't read it fast enough. It was kind of scary to think about, because as fast as technology is developing I honestly think the things in this book could really end up being the future. It may be a ways out yet, but scientists could get there. I just started the sequel, and I only took a break from reading it to blog. I honestly can't wait to get back to it. I think a love triangle is beginning to bloom in this Uglies Series. 

                                                                Review 3.5 out of 5