Uglies (Uglies Trilogy, Book 1) by Scott Westerfeld Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Uglies (Uglies Trilogy, Book 1)
Book Review: Uglies - Entrancing.
Summary: 5 Stars
Uglies-I found this book so entrancing. The language he used felt very adult for a younger generation book, but I felt it worked excedingly well, making me love this book very much. The description's of the hovercraft rides and adventures they went on really made you feel like you were riding along with them feeling the rush and thrill. Scott has succeded in publishing a book that made me cry. (this does not happen often).
I can't wait for the next book in the trilogy to come out (pretties). Im almost counting down the days!
I recommend that u buy this book. its an adventure you are sure to love.
Book Review: terrifically original, exciting fantasy novel for 10+
Summary: 5 Stars
UGLIES is one of the best children's SF novels I've come across for a year, and as it will get nothing out of its publishers but word-of-mouth I strongly recommend you buy it if you have a daughter going through puberty, because it dramatises the sick, looks-obsessed world we live in like nothing else. Tally can't wait until she's 16 and can be changed by plastic surgery into a Pretty, whose life like that of her best friend, will be filled with parties and fashionable clothes. In the future, everyone looks like a supermodel, and nobody stops to think whether this is a good thing - after all, there are no more wars, are there? But when Tally's new friend Shay takes off to live with the rebel Uglies, Tally is told she will never be made Pretty unless she follows the cryptic directions her friend left for her and betrays the rebels. This Tally is all set to do - until she not only falls in love but discovers just what the surgery awaiting her will do to her brain as well as her body.Uglies is a really clever and pertinent dystopian fantasy of a kind that asks children whether they really want to give up their individuality to become a blandly perfect being. Exciting, fast-paced and easy to read it tackles the propaganda pumped out by glossy magazines and shows how ugly extreme beauty would be.
Book Review: The Uglies
Summary: 4 Stars
I've never reviewed a book before but i decided to start now. I read the blurb if this book in a bookstore and it seemed so interesting. The book is set in a what if world, a world that has been comsumed by plastic surgery. Its a great teen read especially for thise that lay too much on beauty. The book is fast pased with twists and turns throughout.
I really enjoyed this book i'd recommend it to any teenage girl.
Book Review: A fantastic read for pre-teens.
Summary: 5 Stars
'Uglies' is a truly fantastic read. An incredibly fast-paced thriller of a story,where every moment is valued. Having not read sci-fi before,I was expecting hordes of alien tribes to come cavorting through a galaxy in outer space at some point, but instead, as I read on, I found only a really satisfying, thought-provoking tale of unnatural beauty and its vices.Tally Youngblood lives in a world where she gets everything she wants and more, what with the miraculous turnover from ugly to pretty at the age of sixteen. Her perfect world remains in its bubble until she meets Shay, an intriguing new character who changes Tally's life forever, leading her on a strange adventure in which she encounters smokies, specials and learns what really happens in the operation theatre. The novel ends with a shocking cliff hanger which has left me waiting anxiously for the next book in Scott Westerfeld's powerfully written trilogy.
I thoroughly enjoyed 'Uglies' and would highly recomend it to other pre-teen girls like myself.
Book Review: Uglies
Summary: 5 Stars
My 12 year old has just read this and could'nt put it down she says it is like life today as we all aspire to be pretty but what is the price of it? She was up all night reading it and when she'd finished all she said was 'can I have the next one mum?'
Obviously a thrilling read.