Playing on every teen's passionate desire to look as good as everybody else, Scott Westerfeld (Midnighters) projects a future world in which a compulsory operation at sixteen wipes out physical differences and makes everyone pretty by conforming to an ideal standard of beauty. The "New Pretties" are then free to play and party, while the younger "Uglies" look on enviously and spend the time before their own transformations in plotting mischievous tricks against their elders. Tally Youngblood is one of the most daring of the Uglies, and her imaginative tricks have gotten her in trouble with the menacing department of Special Circumstances.
My Thoughts: I loved the concept of this but it all felt a bit bland to me in the way that it was put onto paper. There was a bit of action in it but the characters weren't particularly likeable and the plot could have had so much more depth to it.
This is the perfect read for troubled teenage girls, but I'm going to leave the rest of the series on my "will not read" list.
I RATED IT 4/10
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