Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

I recently read the book Uglies by Scott Westerfeld.  The story takes place strange society in which everyone is turned extremely attractive or a “Pretty” by a special surgery at the age of sixteen.  This operation also makes changes to your brain.  It makes you carefree, and takes away your want to be difference, your creativity, and your anger.  The idea was to prevent war and anger. 

The main character in the book is named Tally Youngblood.  Tally is an “ugly” who is about to turn sixteen and is really looking forward to becoming a pretty.  Before Tally becomes a pretty, she becomes friends with another ugly named Shay.  Shay has contact with a group of people that are against the operation and stayed ugly.  They are hiding in a place called the Smoke.  Before Shay turned sixteen, she tried to get Tally to join her and run off to the smoke, but Tally refuses to join her.  Shay leaves alone, but left Tally with clues as to how she can find her.  When Tally finds out that she will not be able to become a pretty until she tells the secret police organization about Shay, she changes her mind and decides to follow Shay to the smoke.

I thought that Uglies was a really great read.  It is full of action and exciting adventures.  Also, it is followed up by three more books, Pretties, Specials, and Extras.  I have also read the rest of the series and they were great too!  I would recommend these books to everyone! They may seem a little confusing at first but they are definitely worth the read!