1 Uglies

If you have problems with self esteem (don't we all?) this is really the book for you. If you like a good conspiracy, this is also the right book for you. Tally is approaching her sixteenth birthday, the day she has been dreaming and waiting for for YEARS. On her sixteenth birthday she gets to become pretty. Yup. Pretty. Reconfigure her bones, blast off her skin, enhance her eyes and make her pretty. But, maybe the surgery isn't what she thought it was. Tally's new friend Shay isn't going to do it. Shay likes the way she looks, who wants to look like everybody else anyway?

Part of an uglie's life is playing tricks on your room, escaping and doing wild things. Not wild as in drugs and drinking, but wild as in sneaking into pretty land or going outside of the city. Tally is prepared to betray a lot of people to get what she wants.

Shay tries to get Tally to save herself. This book mocks the lives we have made for ourselves, were the pretty make it and everybody else just doesn't count.

Ya know what's cool about the word uglies? The word lies is hidden in it. These children are told that to count they have to be beautiful. Their lives revolve around their sixteenth birthday. They are lied to and told that they must be pretty or not worth any thing. When I look in the mirror I don't see some one beautiful in the worlds standards, but am I really willing to base my life off of what everybody thinks I should look like. Does that even make sense??? NO! This book gets the good book badge.