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Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. Uglies series #1. 425 p. Simon Pulse/ Simon & Schuster, 2005. (Own.)
Happy Thursday TMS! Spring break is winding down for me and the weather finally got nice yesterday. I had hoped to get into the yard this break; instead, I've been continuing my decluttering of 36+ years in a house.#tbt features Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. Uglies was published in 2005 and is book one of what was originally called the Uglies Trilogy, but eventually expanded to become a quartet. and then Later, it was spun off into another series, the Imposters, set in the same world and, most recently, a new series featuring the main character, Tally Youngblood was published.
Three hundred years in the future, the population is segregated by age with the youngest members growing up with the Littles before transferring to the Uglies to spend their tween years till the age of 16, when they transfer to the Pretties island, undergo extensive cosmetic surgery and live a life of continual partying. Sounds great, doesn't it?
Main character, Tally Youngblood cannot wait to become a pretty. She misses her best friend, Peris, who turned sixteen before her, so she swims across the river with the hope of seeing him. Instead, she meets Shay, who has no desire to turn Pretty and may or may not be working with a group of likeminded runaways who have formed a settlement called, the Smoke.
This dystopian is on the long side, but the action and themes of identity, beauty and humanity keep the reader engrossed and panting for the second book, Pretties, as Uglies does end in a memorable cliffhanger.
Three hundred years in the future, the population is segregated by age with the youngest members growing up with the Littles before transferring to the Uglies to spend their tween years till the age of 16, when they transfer to the Pretties island, undergo extensive cosmetic surgery and live a life of continual partying. Sounds great, doesn't it?
Main character, Tally Youngblood cannot wait to become a pretty. She misses her best friend, Peris, who turned sixteen before her, so she swims across the river with the hope of seeing him. Instead, she meets Shay, who has no desire to turn Pretty and may or may not be working with a group of likeminded runaways who have formed a settlement called, the Smoke.
This dystopian is on the long side, but the action and themes of identity, beauty and humanity keep the reader engrossed and panting for the second book, Pretties, as Uglies does end in a memorable cliffhanger.
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