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Uglies (Boxed Set): Uglies, Pretties, Specials (The Uglies)
by Scott Westerfeld
from Simon Pulse

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• highly recommended for ages 11-13
  The plot is somewhat similar to "Brave New World"--a future society where humans are surgically altered to fulfill various roles. Tally begins the trilogy as an 15 year old "ugly"--not yet surgically improved, and is filling time waiting to join her older "pretty" friends who have been made supermodel beautiful (but vapid) on their 16th birthdays and are filling their lives with parties in "New Pretty Town". She meets Shay, another 15 year old who tells her about the Smoke, a place where people have escaped... more info

• Great!
  Uglies, Pretties, and Specials is about a world were everyone at 16 turns "pretty" with extreme cosmetic surgery. Up until that, they're called "uglies" and live in dorms. Tally waits to turn 16, and goes to New Pretty Town to see her friend, Peris, where she is turned away and back to Uglyville. then, she meets Shay. Shay doesn't want to be Pretty and tells Tally that she's going to run away to the Smoke (rebels who don't become Pretty). Shay tries to tell her to go, but she deoesn't. Then, Tally meets Dr.... more info

• Uglies
  The uglies series is really a good set of books, the author created a good setting and plot line and it doesn't leave you bored very often. I'm really a picky reader so this is a pretty good book.

• Just okay *spoilers*
  I found these books to be just "okay". With the other Scott Westerfeld novels, the imagery is fascinating, his style is faultless, and the characters are very deep. The story is also very unexpected. But I dislike the story for a few reasons:
  Uglies: Very gripping in the beginning, but very slow in the middle! Tally being alone in the woods, traveling towards her new home is slow-going and hard to read all the way through. And I, personally, felt more excited to hear about Tally as a pretty than a... more info

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