Uglies

Yes! Finally done with Uglies! Although I kind of wish I weren't, because it was pretty good. The world that Scott Westerfeld creates is very different but still believable to an extent. The story was interesting but a little bit predictable, and you could really see the characters' personalities change throughout the book. The other great thing was that the author did a great job of combining aspects of dystopia, chick lit, and adventure into one book in a series. That's not a mix that you see every day, is it? And they had better make a movie out of this one!

Tally Youngblood lives in a world hundreds of years in the future, where the mysterious people who run the city give sixteen year-olds an operation to turn them into beautiful men and women. Tally can't wait to turn pretty, especially when her best friend goes under the knife and emerges a new person. But Shay, a girl just as old as as Tally, comes crashing into her life. Shay doesn't want to be molded into a pretty. And then, on the night before their sixteenth birthday, she runs away. Now the authorities are suspicious of Tally's involvement, and they give her a very important decision to make. Will she betray her new friend or stay a hideous, meaningless ugly forever?

Related links:
• Author's blog
• Official series site
• Series fansite