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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.

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:

June 01, 2012

Review: Uglies: Shay's Story by Scott Westerfeld

Uglies: Shay's Story
Authors: Scott Westerfeld & Devin Grayson
Illustrator: Steven Cummings
Publisher: Random House
Publication Date: March 6, 2012
Pages: 208
Source: Paperback/Library

“This whole game is just designed to make us hate ourselves.”—Shay

Uglies told Tally Youngblood’s version of life in Uglyville and the budding rebellion against the Specials. Now comes an exciting graphic novel revealing new adventures in the Uglies world—as seen through the eyes of Shay, Tally’s rebellious best friend who’s not afraid to break the rules, no matter the cost.

A few months shy of her sixteenth birthday, Shay eagerly awaits her turn to become a Pretty—a rite-of-passage operation called “the Surge” that transforms ordinary Uglies into paragons of beauty. Yet after befriending the Crims, a group of fellow teens who refuse to take anything in society at face value, Shay starts to question the whole concept. And as the Crims explore beyond the monitored borders of Uglyville into the forbidden, ungoverned wild, Shay must choose between the perks of being Pretty and the rewards of being real.

Review: We all know I am absolutely in love with The Uglies Series, so it was a no brainer I'd read this at some point! So since this is a graphic novel my review is gonna be short but OMG! I loved this. I loved reading Shay's version of things and what happened with her before she met Tally! I also thought the drawings were very well done. Except I did think there could have been more of a difference between the Uglies and Pretties. But besides that I thought the drawings were great. I really loved how Shay described things as she started changing her mind about the operation. About how she could either be Pretty or be real. I thought that was an accurate description of things. Because we all know how the Pretties seemed to lose a few brain cells (or at the very least, acted like it) after the operation. I thought it was accurate the choice of being Pretty or being real and keeping your head even if that meant you'd be considered an "Ugly" all your life. I really loved this novel and I definitely cant wait for the next one!

4 Stars!

September 18, 2011

Review: Bogus to Bubbly by Scott Westerfeld

Bogus to Bubbly (An Insider's Guide To The World Of Uglies)
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Publication Date: October 27, 2009
Pages: 196
Source: Paperback/Own

THE WORLD OF UGLIES, SET IN OUR NOT-SO-DISTANT FUTURE,is a complex place filled with bubbly technology and lingo, yet bogus rules about status and appearance. That's why a guide to the world of uglies has been requisitioned from the hole in the wall. Inside you'll find:

A rundown on all the cliques, from Crims and Cutters to tech-heads and surge-monkeys

The complete history, starting with the destruction of the oil bug to the launch of Extras in space
How all those awesome gadgets came to be: hoverboards, eyescreens, skintennas, sneak suits...

PLUS an exclusive look at Scott Westerfeld's first draft of Extras -- starring Hiro, not Aya.

And so much more, it's mind-wrecking.

Review: So this is the guide to everything in the Uglies trilogy. Let me say this was great! If there was anything you wondered about or had questions about in the books this explains it all. I thought for the most part I understood most of it but I still learned stuff from this guide, which only made me understand the books even better. Scott explains everything from how he got the idea for the books to the "rusty" history, which I really enjoyed. He also explains the names, gadgets, cliques and he even includes a map so you can better visualize how the cities were set up. This is one of the most detailed guides I've read to a series of books. My fave part about the guide was the rusty history & the gadgets. I loved the history because it explained what happened to make the rusties extinct basically. It basically explains what could happen to us if we continue on the path we're on, you know, consuming all the resources of the earth and what not. It also explains how most of the gadgets are actually pretty close to stuff we have now or not that far off in the future. Like hoverboards, obviously they are off in the future but the solar power they run on is something we are working on today. The gadgets; the city interface is basically like the internet but with no privacy at all. Not to mention the position finder, water purifier and self heat food are all similar to things we already have now. The position finder obviously is a GPS, water purifier is self explanatory and the self heating food is similar to military MREs (Meals Ready to Eat). Like I said before, this is one of the best guides I've read to accompany a series. I definitely suggest fans of the Uglies trilogy buy this to keep with their books. :)

July 27, 2011

Cover vs. Cover [#3]

Cover vs. Cover & US vs. UK are weekly memes hosted by a number of different people, I found out about it from As These Pages Fly. Its about comparing different covers of the same book.

This weeks covers are:

The Old US Covers The New US Covers

This week I decided to compare the old and new US covers of the Uglies trilogy. Now I realized they changed the covers just recently. I re-read the Uglies trilogy to review but I actually never read Extras so I had to go buy the book. When I found the book I realized they made new covers for the entire series. So I have Uglies, Pretties, and Specials in the old cover and Extras in the new. Now I'm kinda mixed on what covers I'm a fan of and which ones I'm not. I really liked how all the old covers showed the faces and how they changed each time an operation was done. I do however like a few of the new covers for them. First of all I like how on Pretties they show the legs with the writing on them because it shows how they really changed your whole body when you become pretty. I also really like the new cover to Extras. I like how they show a close up of the eye and in general how beautiful and more filled with color it is. I feel like the other new covers seem kinda boring in color. This is easy for me. The old covers overwhelmingly win in my opinion. I feel like they pull you in more to wanting to read them.

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