Uglies By Scott Westerfeld

Have you ever wondered what would it be liked if where you live and what you do was based on your looks? Well in the book Uglies, by Scott Westerfeld which has 425 pages you can find out how it would be. In the book, Uglyville is where all the people who are under 16 live and Pretty Town is the place where everyone older and who has the operation live. Tally Youngblood is your average Ugly who can’t wait to be a pretty where the only thing you have to do is party all night. Her friend, Peris is already a pretty and they have always dreamed of being pretty together. Tally has always been a tricky one, she sneaks into pretty town wearing a mask just to see, Peris, but as the time gets closer to her birthday, which is the day she gets the operation that makes her pretty, Tally meets Shay. Shay doesn’t want to be a pretty, she feels like being a pretty means taking away how you really think, but they do become best friends. As they spend more time with each other Shay teaches Tally about the Smoke, it’s a place with only Uglies. They don’t believe in being pretty, they catch their own food, make their own houses and just survive in the wild. Shay asks for Tally to come with her, but Tally doesn’t go. Instead Shay leaves a map that only Tally would understand and it leads to the Smoke. When Special Circumcises, which are the people who run the
Then she also realizes that becoming a pretty it means changing the way you think and making you think like any other Pretty, when someone says, “Perhaps the logic conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone looking the