My book is called Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. It is a science fiction book that was first copyrighted in 2005. The book is about a girl named Tally who always dreamed of becoming a pretty. When Tally meets Shay, she learns that being pretty isn't the most important thing. The theme of the book is that looks aren't as important as your personality.

Uglies is written in third person point of view, which helped me understand the plot better. The book takes place in the future, where on your sixteenth birthday, you got an operation that would turn you pretty. Tally always wanted to become pretty until she met Shay, who taught her that she was pretty the way she was. Shay taught her about a place called the Smoke, where people could live without getting the operation. However, after living in the Smoke for a while, the government finds and captures many of the people living there. They capture Shay and turn her pretty, and Tally finds that the only way to save her is to become pretty herself. The intended audience of the book is people that are my age, thirteen or fourteen. The book is science fiction, and you can know this by the strange medical technology that is not used today. There are also things like hovercars and hoverboards that give away the genre. The author's style was to use cliff hangers and suspense to keep me interested, and it worked very well to keep me reading.

The book affected me by making me surprised when Shay and Tally became pretty, and it made me and other readers realize that being pretty wasn't important. Uglies did not change my views very much, because although I did see other people as pretty, it wasn't ever important to me. This book reminded me of Divergent, by Veronica Roth because in both books, the main character differed a lot from what society wanted people to be.

Overall, Uglies was a very good book and I would definitely recommend it. I liked the action that occurred in the book. I also really enjoyed the very different characteristics of each person in the book, and how one character could be the complete opposite of the other. This book was great and I recommend it for anybody who likes action books that occur in the future, like The Hunger Games or Divergent.

Jamie J

12/18/13

**** 4/5