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Title: Uglies (Uglies #1)
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Publication Date: March 29th 2012 (first published 2005)
Format: Paperback, 425 pages
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Tally can't wait to turn sixteen and become pretty. Sixteen is the magic number that brings a transformation from repellent Ugly into a stunningly attractive Pretty, and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks, Tally will be there. But Tally's new friend, Shay, isn't sure she wants to be Pretty. She'd rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the Pretty world - and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn Pretty at all. The choice Tally makes changes her world forever
Title: Uglies (Uglies #1)
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Publication Date: March 29th 2012 (first published 2005)
Format: Paperback, 425 pages
Rating:
Description:
Tally can't wait to turn sixteen and become pretty. Sixteen is the magic number that brings a transformation from repellent Ugly into a stunningly attractive Pretty, and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks, Tally will be there. But Tally's new friend, Shay, isn't sure she wants to be Pretty. She'd rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the Pretty world - and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn Pretty at all. The choice Tally makes changes her world forever
Review
The book focuses on Tally Youngblood, a fifteen year old girl who cannot wait for her sixteenth birthday to arrive so she can finally go through with the operation that all 16 year olds go through and be reunited with her friend who she was separated from because he turned sixteen before her. In this world people are separated according to age: up until aged 11 you are a "littlie" and live with your parents, ages 12 -15 you are an "ugly" and live in a dorm with other people of the same age and from 16 you are a "pretty" (new, middle or late depending on your age) and live amongst other pretties. While waiting for her birthday to arrive she meets and befriends a girl, Shay, who has the same birthday as Tally. But Shay has other plans that do not include turning pretty and Tally then has the decision whether to follow her dream or follow her friend.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It's fast paced and keeps your attention. It also has some really great twists and revelations. It definitely has a thought-provoking theme to it - beauty. We have it shoved in our faces on a daily basis: make-up, beauty treatments etc to make ourselves more appealing and "beautiful" and also high expectations of what we all should look like to be deemed attractive from models, magazines and pretty much every other media outlet. A great Dystopia genre read and I would definitely recommend for any young-adult dystopia fan.
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