Comments on: Uglies: Shay’s Story

By: Review of the Uglies by Scott Westerfield « TeenGirlsthatWrite

Review of the Uglies by Scott Westerfield « TeenGirlsthatWrite — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:53:20 +0000

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By: Good Comics Out March 14: Love and Crime » Comics Worth Reading

Good Comics Out March 14: Love and Crime » Comics Worth Reading — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:09:37 +0000

[...] already reviewed Uglies: Shay’s Story (Del Rey, $10.99), which I liked more than I thought I would. I quit reading Twin Spica because it [...]

By: Rivkah La Fille

Rivkah La Fille — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:49:01 +0000

I loved the prose novels to this series; they were well written as well as thought-provoking and don’t go at all in the direction you might originally anticipate. The ending especially left me thinking about how we alter our bodies for better as well as worse. You’d think this book would be staunchly negative towards bodily alterations, but you’d be surprised! It’s an interesting read and vividly written.

I read the first chapter of the graphic novel, though, and it’s off-putting how well … pretty the characters who are supposed to be “ugly” are. Westerfeld actually does a beautiful job describing his characters and they feel more real in his books than seeing them drawn on the page this way. Honestly, it’s difficult to draw zits and warts and wrinkles and minor flaws that we consider normal but to the people in “Uglies” are deforming. Especially since this book is drawn in a very clean style. Beautiful art, except that it seems to defeat the entire point of the story to begin with.

By: Laur

Laur — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:50:12 +0000

My younger sister keeps recommending I read The Uglies. I just might have to cheat and read the GN. XD

I agree Shay doesn’t look skinny at all but the visuals in that preview chapter are amazing.

Bookmarking this to read.