Product ReviewsUglies by Scott Westerfeld (2005, Trade Paperback)

I was Amazed at how Good this Book Is

I read Uglies during the course of of day and I can't wait to get the second book in the series (Pretties).

The book is about Tally Youngblood you can't wait to turn 16 so she can have the operation to turn pretty and be reunited with her long time best friend whose 16th birthday was a few months before Tally's. During the last few months of being an "Ugly" though Tally makes another friend who has the same birthday as Tally but is not looking forward to the operation and instead decides to runaway. Tally is then forced to choose either a life of being Ugly, or turning her new friend in. So Tally leaves the city to find her friend and learns more about life and the world than she could have ever dreamed.

The book ends on a highly suspenseful note, so if you plan on buying the Uglies, just trust me and pick up the Pretties at the same time!Read full review...

Future Beauty!

In a Utopian society where everyone, well almost everyone, turns beautiful on thier sixteenth birthday Tally sets off on an adventure to find a runaway "ugly" friend so that she can have the operation to turn her "pretty". In this society beauty reigns and everyone is made to feel "ugly" even though by the "Rusties" (us) society they would be normal. This fact is carefully hidden from the "uglies" who can't wait til their sixteenth birthday. However a few hundred people chose to remain ugly and every year a few more people join them rather than going through the operation to make them pretty. The book is all about Tally's adventures to find Smoke, a hidden society of "misfits", and her inner journey to discovering beauty isn't just skin deep. Sent as a spy to discover this secret society Tally finds beauty is not all it's cracked up to be and decides not to activate the pendant given to her be the "Specials", who are a cruel beauty, or does she? Although this is a teen novel I think any adult would enjoy reading it too.Read full review...

What an amazing book!

I LOVE this book! I’ve read all 4 books in the series but had lost this book over the years. I’m so happy I get to relive those memories again!

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Excellent Book

Really love this book series, I've read through the entire set 3 times. Great if you love Hunger Games, Dystopian future settings, conspiracies. I highly recommend this series

Don't be fooled

I know the cover looks kind of odd, and the name of the book is a head-scratcher at first, but you have got to read this book. Before I read this book, I wasn't much of a Sci-Fi fan, but since reading this book and the rest of the series it has become one of my favorite genres. If you want to know more about the book, read the description, because I'm kinda bad at not giving away endings. This book is a page turner, and you won't be able to put it down. Once you have read it, you won't be able to resist reading the rest of the series.Read full review...

Amazing

Uglies is a truly amazing book. Its story line is extraordinary and it even has a great message... beauty isn't everything... my 16 year old daughter just finished it and she thought it was absolutely the best book she had ever read.
She would highly recommend it.
It flows well, and you might find it hard to put down.
Scott Westerfeld is a great author.
If you haven't read it yet.. you should. I haven't met a person yet who doesn't like it.Read full review...

This book rules!!!

Well im a very picky person when it comes to book so when i first recieved this book i didnt think i was going to like it but once i picked it up i couldnt stop reading it. i love the whole serious ive never read so much in my life ever since i read these i have started reading more and more becasue i found out wat kind of books i liked to read after i read all these. so if u want a great book to read this and the other two Pretties, and Specials are the best so give them a try.Read full review...

I have not read this series, but it is highly recommended.

Quality of books, very clean, almost like new

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Great book.

Great book in great condition.

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Love this book

I have been looking for this book with the original cover and finally found it. And it was sent to me really fast too.

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