Uglies

"The longing for fairy-tale beauty has never looked so sinister" The Times "Action-packed and strikingly well-written" Amanda Craig, Best Books The international bestselling series from blockbuster author Scott Westerfeld! In Tally Youngblood’s world, looks matter . At sixteen everyone undergoes a transformation from “Ugly” to “Pretty” and is catapulted into a high-tech paradise where the only thing that matters is having a great time and you never have to worry or think for yourself. Tally can’t wait. But then, with just weeks to go to Tally’s birthday, her friend Shay runs away and the ugly truth about the world of the Pretties starts to reveal itself. What if the beauty of the Pretties utopia really is just skin deep?

Auteur
Scott Westerfeld is the author of the Leviathan series, the first book of which was the winner of the 2010 Locus Award for Best Young Adult Fiction. His other novels include the New York Times bestseller Afterworlds, the worldwide bestselling Uglies series, The Last Days, Peeps, So Yesterday, and the Midnighters trilogy. Visit him at ScottWesterfeld.com or follow him on Twitter at @ScottWesterfeld. He and his wife, Justine, divide their time between Sydney and New York.

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The first book in the international bestselling series from blockbuster author Scott Westerfeld!

Résumé
"The longing for fairy-tale beauty has never looked so sinister" The Times
"Action-packed and strikingly well-written" Amanda Craig, Best Books

The international bestselling series from blockbuster author Scott Westerfeld!

In Tally Youngblood’s world, looks matter.  At sixteen everyone undergoes a transformation from “Ugly” to “Pretty” and is catapulted into a high-tech paradise where the only thing that matters is having a great time and you never have to worry or think for yourself. Tally can’t wait.

But then, with just weeks to go to Tally’s birthday, her friend Shay runs away and the ugly truth about the world of the Pretties starts to reveal itself. What if the beauty of the Pretties utopia really is just skin deep?