“The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit.” A poetic quote found on page 3 of Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, released on January 16, 2006, and published by Simon & Schuster. There’s 425 and it’s science fiction. Set in a dystopian universe, hundreds of years after 2006 has passed. Now people are more or less controlled in this environment and bribed with the pretty operation so they don’t leave. There are flying vehicles and living is much easier, as you would expect the future to be. Main characters are Tally Youngblood and Shay, but there are two subsections of people: the uglies, those who haven’t gotten the operation, and pretties, who have. The basic summary of the book is that in this dystopian universe, at age sixteen teenagers
