UgliesBy: Scott Westerfeld
Reviewed by: Lynna, 17
Rating: Really liked it
I enjoyed this book because it was very interesting and the idea was original. Westerfeld brought up a topic many teens, especially girls, would be intrigued about: body and facial image. Although perfection of beauty is hard to understand, society today has taken up the image of the "perfect beauty" and plastered it all over media, most importantly in magazines. Teens, especially the younger generations who grew up with media, all seem to percieve beauty very similarily - whether we like to admit it or not. But in order to mature, we must learn to accept beauty in different forms and see everything through different colored lens. If people want to be happy, accepting their imperfections is a step closer to being a perfect person overall.
This book was very unique, setting itself from the rest. It is set in the future, in which perfection beauty has become mainstream in society. If you were an "ugly", you were treated worst than a "pretty". Everyone gets the chance to be a "pretty", though, when they turn the age of 16. Having to go through operations until the day they die, the pretties enjoy their life in society. Tally, an ugly, go through much hardships and adventures in this story. She has to decide whether or not being pretty is worth her original face, the one she was born with, the genes her parents have given her.
Beauty is distorted and taken into deep consideration in this story as the future seem to have progressed very drastically in technology.
Recommended to: all teenagers
1 comment:
I absolutely love these books! They're very entertaining and thought-provoking. Westerfield portrays the future society as one obsessed with beauty (like you mentioned, it is a bit like our present society), and tightly controlled by a shady government and their agents. There is no war, no environmental destruction, no religious conflict, everyone's beautiful, but nobody's truly free, which is rather disturbing.
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