October 10, 2018

Review: Impostors by Scott Westerfeld

Impostors (Uglies #5) 
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Publisher: Scholastic
Publication Date: September 11, 2018
Pages: 407
Format: Hardcover/Own

Frey and Rafi are inseparable . . . two edges of the same knife. But Frey's very existence is a secret.

Frey is Rafi’s twin sister?and her body double. Their powerful father has many enemies, and the world has grown dangerous as the old order falls apart. So while Rafi was raised to be the perfect daughter, Frey has been taught to kill. Her only purpose is to protect her sister, to sacrifice herself for Rafi if she must.

When her father sends Frey in Rafi’s place as collateral in a precarious deal, she becomes the perfect impostor?as poised and charming as her sister. But Col, the son of a rival leader, is getting close enough to spot the killer inside her. As the deal starts to crumble, Frey must decide if she can trust him with the truth . . . and if she can risk becoming her own person.

With Impostors, master storyteller Scott Westerfeld returns with a new series set in the world of his mega-bestselling Uglies! A world full of twist and turns, rebellion and intrigue, where any wrong step could be Frey’s last.

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April 12, 2018

Cover Reveal: Impostors by Scott Westerfeld

Guys, I'm so freaking excited over this! If any of you have been following my blog since 2011, you'll know the Uglies series is one of my absolute favorite series! Like ever! So I'm incredibly excited there's gonna be more books in the series! The first one being this:

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July 23, 2011

Review: Pretties by Scott Westerfeld

Pretties (Uglies #2)
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Publication Date: November 1, 2005
Pages: 370
Source: Paperback/Own

Gorgeous. Popular. Perfect. Perfectly wrong.

Tally has finally become pretty. Now her looks are beyond perfect, her clothes are awesome, her boyfriend is totally hot, and she's completely popular. It's everything she's ever wanted.

But beneath all the fun -- the nonstop parties, the high-tech luxury, the total freedom -- is a nagging sense that something's wrong. Something important. Then a message from Tally's ugly past arrives. Reading it, Tally remembers what's wrong with pretty life, and the fun stops cold. 

Now she has to choose between fighting to forget what she knows and fighting for her life -- because the authorities don't intend to let anyone with this information survive. 

Review: It was great! The book starts up about a month after Tally's operation. You really get a good look at what exactly the operation does and how it changes you. It was amazing how much the operation changed you and what people had to do to overcome the effects of it. It was pretty amazing the differences between being ugly and pretty. It was interesting how during the operation the specials could choose what you did and did not remember. If there was something the specials felt was something you didn't need to know or remember they made it fuzzy by messing with your brain during the operation so that you couldn't remember unless you got cured of the fuzziness or overcame it somehow on your own. All the new technology was pretty amazing too although I don't think I'd be very fond of certain pieces of it. It was shocking the types of technology the government could come up with, and it really makes you think "what if our government did that?" The action involving the New Smoke starts up right away, and it was interesting how they came into the picture in the beginning. The action through out the book doesn't disappoint whether its dealing with the New Smoke or just Tally and her friends up to their same old tricks. Great sequel to Uglies. :)

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