Their adventures leading up to their birthday were the best. I also totally adored her friendship with Shay. She handled the challenges really well and did her best to make better choices. Everything she’s grown up knowing has been shown to be a lie. She was a girl beyond excited to turn pretty. There was secret-keeping (the part I don’t care for) but the characters were so well developed and I grew to love them so much that I understood the motivations for the secrets. There were a few tropes that I don’t particularly care for, but overall it was action-packed and I flew through the story. I was worried it wouldn’t hold up, but it did. Also, he’s continuing the series and I want to read those too. So, after meeting Scott Westerfeld last year and hearing all about how the fan art for this series inspired and changed his writing, I really wanted to reread it. I’ve always been a lover of dystopian books.

I read it so many times when it first came out and in my later years of high school. I have been wanting to reread this series forever. Tally’s choice will change her world forever. The authorities offer Tally a choice: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world– and it isn’t very pretty. And as a pretty, she’ll be catapulted into a high-tech paradise where her only job is to have fun.īut Tally’s new friend Shay isn’t sure she wants to become a pretty. In just a few weeks she’ll have the operation that will turn her from a repellent ugly into a stunning pretty. Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can’t wait.

Uglies by scott westerfeld