Uglies is the first of a series by Westerfield. In the future, everyone becomes beautiful on his or her 16th birthday. Main character Tally can't wait to become pretty and join all her old friends in "New Pretty Town." But her new friend Shay isn't on board -- she thinks there is something better out there, and she runs away to find it. Tally, after being blackmailed by the "Specials," follows Shay in hopes of bringing her back for the surgery, but Tally discovers that there may, indeed, be something better than being Pretty.
This is a good young adult companion to other dystopian novels; perhaps Fahrenheit or Brave New World. I found the topic appealing, and the idea was well-developed, but the novel was slow in parts.
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