Uglies (Uglies #1)
A few years after rebel Tally Youngblood took down the uglies/pretties/specials regime, a cultural renaissance swept the world. Now popularity rules. Everyone craves fame—and fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse is no exception. But her face rank of 451,396 is so low, she’s a total nobody. An extra. Aya’s...
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A few years after rebel Tally Youngblood took down the uglies/pretties/specials regime, a cultural renaissance swept the world. Now popularity rules. Everyone craves fame—and fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse is no exception. But her face rank of 451,396 is so low, she’s a total nobody. An extra. Aya’s only chance to escape extra-land is to find a big story to kick—something wild and unexpected. Then Aya meets a clique of girls who pull crazy tricks. She knows she can propel herself into celebrity; but at what cost? There’s more at stake than Aya realizes in this spectacular conclusion to the Uglies series.
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ISBN:
9781416936381 (1416936386)
Publish date: May 3rd 2011
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Adventure,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Teen,
Science Fiction,
Book Club,
Romance,
Dystopia,
Apocalyptic,
Post Apocalyptic
Series: Uglies (#1)
3.5 stars on Booklikes. This will round down to three stars on Goodreads. I was on the fence as to whether to read this book/series. I think my reasoning went something like this: "Everyone gets plastic surgery at age 16, to make them 'pretty'? That more implausible than most of the implausibl...
Ich habe einen interessanten Zeitpunkt gewählt, um „Uglies“ von Scott Westerfeld zu lesen. Das Buch ist mittlerweile 14 Jahre alt und Auftakt der gleichnamigen „Uglies“-Tetralogie. Es lag recht lange auf meinem SuB, etwa dreieinhalb Jahre, weil meine Begeisterung für Young Adult – Dystopien seit dem...
Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Pinterest A world where you are an ugly until your sixteenth birthday. And then, you undergo a surgery and you become pretty. And life is perfect. Except, maybe it isn’t.This is one of those books where you visualise a world in so many details, and feel lik...
I’ve read this series when it first came out in 2005 and I totally loved it. It was the first time I read a dystopian novel and I was immediately hooked. I decided to re-read this series in English this time (cause in 2005 I read it in French, my English was still too basic) without knowing that Sco...
Kinda neat! I read this book because of its' popularity. Almost every review I had read was favorable and it seemed like a good bet. I have to admit, the sci-fi nature had me worried, it's not usually my thing, but I worried for nothing. This story was unique, unusual and groovy. I liked the build u...
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