My first guest review! And it's only proper that my BBB (Best Blogging Buddy) is the reviewer. If you didn't know, "she" is Lisseth over at Read-a-holicz and she's made of awesomesauce! So taken from the blog itself...here's an intro to Lisseth:
Hi I'm the creator of this amazing blog. I am a senior in High school. Im 18. Going off to college in september. New York City is my home. I love to read. I write when I can. Poetry calms me. Singing makes me happy. I also discovered that I am addicted to blogs. I just can't stop joining them.lol.Im also a business woman,thats going to major in English Literature. Funny,right?
I took on blogging just this year. Hopefully I'll have success like many other bloggers I follow.
Ok, onto the review!
Goodreads Blurb
Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that? Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there.
But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to be pretty. She'd rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. The choice Tally makes changes her world forever.5/5 Stars
Okay so I read this book like 5 years ago it was my first ya series book that really got me into reading. I was also surprised that it had come out way before the hunger games or twilight and not many people know about it and there all published by the same house, scholastic.
The world
The world of uglies really fascinated me I mean at 16 you get a mandated operation that turns u into a pretty. How cool is that. There is only one bad part, it turns u into a bubbly head. A pretty who just has fun, no opinions, or thoughts/ conscience. Plus the society is messed up since they don't feel anything but happy thought no anger or rebellion. Let's just say it may not b a good thing.
The characters
That's we're Shay and Tally come in. There friends who are close to turning. They have this sorta love hate relationship that gets more developed in further books. Tally is the quiet, submissive, typical ugly. Shay is not. She knows the risks of being a pretty. David oh David. He isn't really in the book a lot but he is a key player. He recruits for the smoke. Paris is briefly mentioned and is the only complain I had. I really wanted to to lean more about him, thought he is in the second book a lot more.
The smoke
It's the rebellion of uglies who don't Want to b pretty because they know wat will happen. They live without technology which is the big change in the book. They have books and I'd the setting for the third part of the book. They plant, take showers in the wild, And actually do manual labor.
The action
Tally goes into the wilds alone and has some really adventurous/ survivalist journey. There is a lot of action scenes throughout the book that makes you want to take part too.
There is a lot more that what I am saying. Just trust me, THIS BOOK IS GOOD! There is also some, actually, a lot of romance between two certain epic characters.which I will not tell you because YOU NEED TO READ IT!
