Tally Youngblood is our whimsical protagonist and we meet her when she is still an Ugly, eager to become a Pretty. Food for thought during my holidays, that is for sure. This set-up promises interesting reflections on our current beauty-standards in describing a world in which the ideal has become the measure. As the title implies Uglies are human beings (children actually) who have not been modified, who carry the imperfections that are common (but not desirable) such as spots, every YA’s nightmare. The surgery occurs on your sixteenth birthday and before that you are an Ugly. Based on scientific study and evolution theory Pretties are supposed to be the new and better human race. Pretties are people modified by plastic surgery to be strong, healthy and of course, be beautiful. Westerfeld’s fast pacing writing style describes a post-apocalyptic world that is divided between Pretties and Uglies. I added the four books to my pile of Holiday Reads and the promising blurb “Before The Hunger Games there was… Uglies” lured me into reading these novels first. Scott Westerfeld’s The Uglies Quartet, a classic in the YA-dystopian genre, was our summer read. This way anyone who couldn’t be there, can still join in with the fun! Our eleventh YA book is the Uglies Quartet by Scott Westerfeld and the review is written by Gwen Kerkhof Mogot. For every book we read during the book club, one of our book club members will write a review.
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