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First time ever writing a book review (and I have no idea how to format this) but here goes!

Summary: In this dystopian, futuristic world everyone grows up to think they are ugly, and when they turn 16 they’ll go under a knife to become a pretty. Tally Youngblood is no exception, but her new friend Shay thinks otherwise. Due to this lack of common interest, Shay runs away, and Tally is told that if she doesn’t rat Shay out she will never become pretty. She has to chose to either break a friends promise or stay ugly.

I did a full on photo shot for this book. First time photo shot and the subject is a BOOK!!

My views on the book

This book is a fast read and a really fun ride. Personally, I like their use of electro magnetic toys (They don’t go into detail but the concepts are fun.) This was my second time reading the book and I felt like it was slower since I already knew all the twists so I promise I wont spoil anything. This book (Published 2005) was one of the original dystopian books before hunger games (2008) and all of the YA books started to replicate that madness.

Is this okay for my kids? (This is assuming you have kids or are worrying about if there is violence or alcohol.)

Uglies doesn’t seem to have anything super sexual as far as I could tell, if you are against kissing then maybe not the further books. There is some violence and a little death but I think a forth grader would be fine reading it. Maybe even a third grader. Or you know what this book is fine for any age the next couple books aren’t as family friendly so you might want to look here again once I reread those ones. Or someone else probably said how they are.

Is this book okay for school?

It has a lot of themes so pretty good for any school reports about todays need for girls/boys to fit into a certain standard to be pretty/skinny. I am going to use it for my English Honors this year, and for refrence I am a freshman(9th grade) so as the teacher doesnt realize that it barely talks in any metaphors its a pretty good book to use.

Overall Uglies is an interesting read, not spectacular, but 4 out of 5 stars.

Thank you for reading! (I promise I’ll get better at this stuff soon.) What books are you guys reading right now?

Sarah

Quick update for those who didn’t read my last blog post. I gave myself a challenge to not talk about this blog to anyone if they hadn’t asked me a direct question about it first. I thought I would do this in order to stop repeating myself to my friends, but really it just feels like I am keeping secrets from them as they have no idea I have a blog in the first place. I don’t want to quit but it isn’t working out for me. Since I didn’t set a time limit I am going to say that was a twenty four hour challenge, and that twenty four hours is up.

I guess I learned a lot: to think about a challenge instead of posting without a thought, that the opposite of a bad thing isn’t a good thing, and to set a time limit beforehand. Not to shabby for my first challenge. When was a good learning experience for you? I don’t know what I will do later but not too shabby. Anyways I did tell my mom some stuff last night after she asked my why I was kinda flapping my arms….. (I am like 30000% weirder in front of my parents when I am excited.) and so she asked, “Are you excited about Misery(by Stephen King)?” (I started reading it a few days ago and it is really good.)

“No,” I waited a little bit thinking about whether or not that was a close enough question for me to answer and get away with.

“What are you excited about then?” She asked.

Then I decided that that question was close enough. “I got a follower on my blog.” (Which by the way, thank you so much!) This escalated because I had it bottled up so I talked for a couple minutes, careful not to repeat myself.

But now it is the next day, and I haven’t talked at all about this. I would say that was pretty good. I’m wrapping it up now though. Thank you for reading! I hope you guys have a fabulous week since I probably wont post until Saturday! Please tell me if you like these kinds of posts or if I should try something else.

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Book Review #1: Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

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