Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Uglies



This was a good book it was about a girl in an almost perfect town. In her town there are “uglies” and a "pretties". When you are born you are put in to an "ugly" town. Then at the age of 16 you get a surgery to make you "pretty". That's when you get put into a "new pretty" town. In the story the girl wants to be a pretty so bad because her bestfriend had turned into a “pretty" before her. She is almost 16 but she sneaks into the new pretty town, she looks through the town and finds her old friend. He tells her that she should stay out of trouble. Right when she is about to leave she is caught. She races through the partying city, she moves as fast as she can. When she gets back she is depressed. Then she meets a new friend. She teaches her how to do many new things after they become very good friends; the friend asks if she would like to run away to a town far away were you don’t become a pretty. She says no, but her friend still goes alone. On the day of her operation to become pretty she is not allowed to get the surgery. The committee to give surgeries tells her that because she let her friend escape she must find her to become a pretty. It takes her a couple of days to decide if she wanted to betray her friend. She decided to do it. After a long trip to the town were her friend went she started having second thoughts. She started likening to work there. Also, one of the man people in the town was starting to emotionally like her. She finally like finds out that when you get a surgery they damage your brain to party all day and night. Then the town gets raided and they take them back. Then she is turned into a pretty. There are also sequels to the book that I did not read.



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