Rating: 4/10
I'm on a bit of a YA dystopian/utopian roll at the moment. Uglies was released well before the current 'trend' towards this genre, and because of this I thought it would (hopefully) be one of the better written books, as it was not released in a rush just to follow a trend.
Wow I was wrong! The glaring pot holes, vague characters and storyline with no depth made this a plain, bland read. I grew to hate Tally. Her dishonesty and the way she selfishly treated people caused me to separate from her, and not be able to sympathise with her at all. Yes, the world she grew up in could have made her this way, but she would suddenly change her mind with not enough explanation around why. It seemed like her new life in the smoke had barely started (even though I think it had been a few weeks) when suddenly she was in love with David and the town was gone. So much of the book is spent in the city she is born and on the journey to the smoke, that it seemed like the author ran out of space and rushed through the more important parts of her journey.
If there had been another 100 pages added to this book, I think I would have liked it more. Though in saying that, other authors have been able to do plenty more with the same amount of space as Uglies.
Don't waste your time on this book.
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