Tolog Review: Uglies

Uglies 
by Scott Westerfeld
reviewed by Nancy Zhao 

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, would be those books that is set in the future and is divided into different societies. However, it is not those kinds of books that you forces you into a organization because as long as you follow the process everyone ends up the same. In the novel, the book is divided into two civilizations, the ‘uglies’ and the ‘pretties’. Most of the people are born ugly because ‘anyone normal is ugly’. Thus, on your sixteenth birthday, you can get an operation, which can make you pretty and for the rest of your life is just to have fun.

Tally Youngblood, the main character, is an Ugly. She loves playing the ‘Ugly’ tricks and having fun in the Uglyville. Her best friend, Peris is older than her, which means he gets the operation before her. She promised him that before her birthday, she wouldn’t do anything silly and get the operation just like the others. During that time, she met someone new, Shay. She was a totally different Ugly, she didn’t want to get the operation like all the other ones that are dying for their 16th birthday. She believed that it is not what on the outside that’s important but the inside. In fact, because Shay ran away to Smoke a few days before her birthday, it got Tally in trouble. The people who are in authority gave her two cruelest choices, to find Shay and turn her in to them, or never get the operation and be ugly forever.

I think that the author created this society in his book because he wanted us to understand that the appearance does not matter. At the same time, I think this is a great book for teenagers to read because the characters in the book are really close to our age so we can relate to it. While I was reading the book, I could hardly put the book down because is it a really fast-paced book and it is filled with romance, adventure and friendship.

I would recommend this book to anyone because I think this book is really relatable and has many different sides to it. This book really makes you think and while reading it, it was just like a movie going on in my head because the scenes were really descriptive and a really fun book to read.