Reading Hammock’s Rating:
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Category:
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Fiction
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Fiction Genre:
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SciFi
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Title:
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The Uglies
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Author:
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Scott Westerfeld
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Author Website:
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ISBN:
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1416971203
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ISBN-13:
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9781416971207
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Publication Date:
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May,
2011
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Publisher:
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Simon
& Schuster Children's Publishing
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Format:
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Hardcover | Paperback | Digital |
Audio
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Author’s Synopsis:
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.
My review:
I enjoyed this novel because Westerfeld crafted
a peculiar future world that, given our society’s focus on external beauty, I
believe could somehow become true.
Although the beginning did not capture my attention, as soon as the plot
unraveled, I was hooked. Westerfeld’s
plot was hard to predict, and it was easy to feel the emotions of the main
character, Tally. I only have one
complaint about this novel – it is part of a series. I think that this novel would have been
better as a standalone rather than in a series because it is hard to maintain
the reader’s attention throughout an entire series. I feel that it is particularly hard for the
author to write a series of science fiction novels because the reader is
already familiar with the world in which the character lives. Overall I liked Westerfeld’s story and I
would only recommend it to people who like science fiction.
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