Uglies (Uglies #1)

Reader reviewed by Natalie

at first it was hard to understand. the setting is in the future therefore they use different terms. Tally is 15 and shes an ugly. when she turns 16 she will have an operation making her a pretty. she cant wait because then she will finaly be with her best friend again. she meets shay and they quickly becaome friends. shay plans to run away because she does not want to become a pretty. it turns out that in the operation to become a pretty, they operate your head and brainwash you. so everyone is alike.
Tally does not run away but shay does. wen tallys operation arrives, it turns out that she cant get it until she helps Dr. Cable, the leader of the operation comitte, get shay and all the other runaways back to the city. Will she do her task?

Reader reviewed by Mandy Joan

At first I really didnt know what to make of this book. then i understood the concept. I also think that Tally is very vain. I guess it's not totally her fault though. She's constintly reminding herself she's ugly even when David thinks she's beautiful. The book raises lots of questions as to what the future will be like.

Reader reviewed by Lynsie

This Book was awesome. I highly recommend it. It kept me into it and I trail off a lot. I really did enjoy. It'ss capture the reader and leave you wanting more. This is the first book in the series, the only one I've read so far. I can't wait to read the other two. I highly recommend this book if you like fantasy tied into real life.

Reader reviewed by Leah



Uglies suprised me because it has a lot of politcal meaning in it. Uglies is about a world where everyone gets to be pretty and Tally can't wait to get her operation. That is, until she meets Shay. Shay teaches Tally how to hoverboard, think for herself, and most of all, realize that beauty is skin deep. When Shay runs away, Tally's chance at being pretty is threatend. She has to bring her friend back and tell the city officials her location in order to become pretty. When Tally reaches the Smoke however, she doesn't know if she wants to go back to Prettyville.

Reader reviewed by Lauren

Tally can't wait until she turns 16. Turning 16 is a big deal, its when you get to turn pretty. Tally lives in a world where the pretty people who party all the time, live separate from the uglies. She can't wat until she's sees Peris, who turned pretty last month. During the summer, a couple of months away fromher birthday she meets Shay. She isn't sure that she wants to turn pretty though. Shay runs away to the smoke where all uglies run away to, and Tally us called into Special Circumstances to get them back. Tally traveled to the Smoke by herself, and betrayed them without meaning to. Tally gives herself in to become pretty in order to save the smoke, but will she remember what happened and what she's supposed to do?

Reader reviewed by Val

Uglies is the story of soon to be sixteen year old Tally who is an "Ugly". In her time and place everyone is born ugly with rare beauties and when an ugly turns sixteen they are given a cosmetic operation that makes them drop dead beautiful. Tally like many other otherUglies aspires to be beautiful and grows more and more envious of New Pretty Town as her operation comes closer. She's never met anyone who's never wanted to be pretty until she meets and befriends Shay. Shay is unpredictable and a nonconformist. She doesn't want to turn pretty she sees it as becoming ugly and brainwashed. It isn't until Shay runs away the eve of her sixteenth birthday and Tally's sixtenth birthday because they share the same birthday that Tally is told that she will not become pretty until she findsHsay and the other Uglies wjho escaped. Tally is forced to mull over the price of friendhsip and the coast of betrayal. Is A Pretty Face worth more than a friend's life, is the question posed in this satircal novel of cosmetic surgery and the "price" perople pay to have "good" looks.

Reader reviewed by Natalie

Tally can’t wait to turn sixteen so she can have the operation that will turn her into a drop-dead gorgeous girl they call pretties. That would have happened if she hadn’t befriended Shay. Shay disappears into the night to go to the Smoke right before Tally’s operation. The Smoke is a place that’s shrouded in mystery but from what Tally hears, it’s a bunch of uglies that ran away before their sixteenth birthday to live in the wild. Specials are a group of pretties that are not only pretty but also stronger because they are law inforcers that work discreetly. They want to know where the Smoke is so they can bring back the uglies and the bad news is that they know that Shay had gone to the Smoke and that Tally is a friend of hers. Tally is given a choice: find the Smoke and reveal its whereabouts or remain an ugly forever. One event leads into another as Tally’s ticket to New Pretty town slips farther away.

I loved this book because it has great ideas and Scott Westerfeld can always find a way to surprise you. If you can get your hands on this book, they won’t come of it ‘till you’ve finished reading it.

Reader reviewed by freak_gerl

this book is amazing! i love the adventures that tally and shay go through and the futuristic technology(especially the hoverboards)! i totally can't wait to get specials in may!

Reader reviewed by Nicole

Well, I read this book and, what can i say, I LOVED IT! Then I got the Pretties and I loved that one even more. I really recommend these books and I can't wait until the Specials come out in March!

Reader reviewed by jessica

this was an awesome book. set sometime in the distant future, tally youngblood lives in a city called uglyville, anxiously awaiting her 16th birthday along with nearly every other fifteen year old in her school. so whats so weird about that, right? i mean everyone wants to turn sixteen, cuz everyone wants to drive. well, thats where the weirdness comes in. she doesn't want to be sixteen so that she can get her licence. the reason for her is a little different. you see, in tally's world your sixteenth birthday means an extensive cosmetic surgery that turns you "pretty." tally has spent the majority of her years awaiting the day she can finally have that surgery and move to new pretty town with all of her friends. eventually though, a new friend named shay reveals that she never wants to turn pretty at all and runs away to a place called the smoke where everyone is, by pretty standards, ugly. tally is forced to run away and turn in shay and her friends in the smoke. follow tally in her quest to find her way as she is forced to make a life changing decision that will change all their lives.