Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

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.

Review: I was planning on waiting until I was entirely finished with the whole series, but I needed to put up some new reviews for you guys! I was always seeing this book around weather it was on a book shelf, in the school library or in someones hands I just always saw it. And I thought to myself what is so special about this book, I mean why would someone want to read a book called "Uglies" that doesn't sound like a good book!?

Anyways I went out and bought the whole series so I wouldn't have to wait to read the next book. This is a great book! I'm very happy I bought it and that it stalked me until I had to guts to go get it! Haha, that's really what it felt like. 

Tally Youngblood is an interesting character. Sh'es my favorite in the first book. I've never read a book about anything like this which might explain why I like it so much. I loved reading it and getting new images in my mind ,that have never been in there or imagined before, of what it would have been like to be one of the characters in the book. 

The fact that you have to wait until you turn sixteen to be pretty is odd, but that's something that makes this book original and new! I was surprised throughout this great novel. From the hoverboards to everyone being pretty much separated into age groups. When Shay was first introduced into the story I knew something was different about her by the way the author wrote about her. Of course you don't find out until later in the story. But that's for you to find out when you go and read it for yourselves if you haven't already! (:

Happy reading everyone!