Uglies

Alright, this book was absolutely horrible at first. I was ready to throw it at the person who recommended it to me and forget about it. Instead I kept on going and suddenly it was fantastic. A completely different book.

Uglies is about a Tally, a 15 (16 later) year old girl who lives in a futuristic society where when you turn 16 you get an operation that makes you super gorgeous. Tally is the youngest of all the 15 year olds until she meets Shay a girl who shares her September 9th b-day. Everything about Shay is great until she disappears.

Tally leaves for the operation but when she gets there she is forced to go out to Special Circumstances, the group who takes care of all that goes wrong, Imagine a group of Twilight vampires with no mercy, that's SC. They're super strong, super fast, and super smart. They tell Tally that unless she tells them all they want to to know about Shay and where she went, she'll never become pretty.

Tally tells them about the set of directions Shay left in case she decided she wanted to go too. She also told them about the Smokies, an organization of Uglies who didn't want to become pretty.

SC sends Tally to find the location of the Smokey. When she finds it she meets David, Shay's crush and he falls for her. This causes the usual love triangle crud.

David introduces Tally to his parents who tell her their startling discovery about the pretty Operation. It doesn't just change the way you look, it changes the way you think.

The Good and the Bad
-Slow beginning
-Original plot
-Strong characters
-Has you thinking about your pretty Operation.
-Hard to follow at first
-Cool Gadgets.