Genre: Young Adult
Sub Genre: Science Fiction;
Futuristic, Technology, Uglies
Rating: 3 out of 5 Stars
Back Cover: Everybody gets to be
supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that?
Tally is about to turn sixteen,
and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's
world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a
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.
Tally has only ever wanted to become a pretty. But after
making friends with Shay her world gets turned upside down. Soon she may not
even be given the option to be one unless you can find and bring Shay back. The
story itself was well thought out and good but I personally wouldn’t read it
again. It was a quick read that I felt that something was missing. Then again
I’ve never been big on the way people look which was a very big component in
this story. But I did like the writing style of this book. The next book in this series is Pretties.
Publisher: Simon Pulse
ISBN: 0689865384
Pages: 448
Series: Uglies
Volume: 1
