The Uglies Trilogy – a review from an “older teen”

In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly.

cover of scott westerfeld book - ugliesScott Westerfeld‘s trilogy is made up of “Uglies”, “Pretties” and “Specials”.

In this future world everyone has an operation at the age of 16 and is turned into a “pretty”. You get a perfect body, a super-immune system, perfect vision etc and you get to live on a ramped up Ibeza like party-city where life. For the uglies waiting to turn 16 in the dorms on the wrong side of the river it all seems too far away and they spend their time playing around with how they would like to look after the operation and sneaking out and getting into mischief, blowing off a bit of steam.

But what if you don’t want to be turned pretty? And is the pretty operation as innocent as it seems?

This is a fast paced action tale which I enjoyed reading. I loved the way the pretties all talk like 10 yo girls – like totally whatever. And the issues behind the concept are also interesting.
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Would we have depression, anorexia nervosa, self-harm, suicide if the pressures of looking good were taken away from our society – if everyone could look the same – would we have racism?

That is not to say that these books are written in a heavy philosophising manner. They are not. It’s full of hover board chases and rebellion, it just makes you think, possibly even makes teens think. I know I would have eaten these up at school had they been written then.

Have my two picked them up? No. But I am hopeful one day they will.

Oh by the way… Scott has a blog too so he must be okay. 🙂

2 thoughts on “The Uglies Trilogy – a review from an “older teen””

  1. I have already finished it. I read the back of the book and it didn’t sound to great. But once I started to get into the adventure and things i couldn’t wait to finish it. Now I have started on the second book to it and can’t wait to read the others as well.

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