YA Recommendation: Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

Merry Christmas guys! I hope you have a fun day with presents! Remember, Christmas isn't just about the presents!


Title : Uglies
Publisher : Simon Pulse
Published : January 1st, 2005
Author : Scott Westerfeld
Series : Uglies #1


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 Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that?

Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license - for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there.

But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to be pretty. She'd rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all.

The choice Tally makes changes her world forever...


I'm currently in the middle of this book. Well....Not "middle", Actually like..the beginning....Like..page..60 something...

Excerpt : 
New Pretty Town

The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit.
    Of course, Tally thought, you'd have to feed your cat only salmon-flavored cat food for a while, to get the pinks right. The scudding clouds did look a bit fishy, rippled into scales by a high-altitude wind. As the light faded, deep blue gaps of night peered through like an upside-down ocean, bottomless and cold.
    Any other summer, a sunset like this would have been beautiful. But nothing had been beautiful since Peris turned pretty. Losing your best friend sucks, even if it's only for three months and two days.
Tally Youngblood was waiting for darkness.
    She could see New Pretty Town through her open window. The party towers were already lit up, and snakes of burning torches marked flickering pathways through the pleasure gardens. A few hot air balloons pulled at their tethers against the darkening pink sky, their passengers shooting safety fireworks at other balloons and passing parasailers. Laughter and music skipped across the water like rocks thrown with just the right spin, their edges just as sharp against Tally's nerves.
    Around the outskirts of the city, cut off from town by the black oval of the river, everything was in darkness. Everyone was in bed by now.
    Tally took off her interface ring and said, "Good night."
     "Sweet dreams, Tally," said the room.
     She chewed up a toothbrush pill, punched her pillows, and shoved an old portable heater - one that produced about as much warmth as a sleeping, Tally - size human being - under the covers.
     Then she crawled out the window.

YA Recommendation: Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

Title : Beautiful Creatures
Publisher : Little, Brown
Published : December 1st,2009
Author : Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl
Series : Caster Chronicles #1


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There were no surprises in Gatlin County. 
We were pretty much the epicenter of the middle of nowhere.
At least, that's what I thought.
Turns out, I couldn't have been more wrong.
There was a curse.
There was a girl.
And in the end, there was a grave.

Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.

Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.

In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything.



To be honest, I haven't even read this book yet. I just decided to recommend it to you guys. Haha.


Excerpt : 
The Middle of Nowhere

There were only two kinds of people in our town. "The stupid and the stuck," my father had affectionately classified our neighbors. "The ones who are bound to stay or too dumb to go. Everyone else finds a way out." There was no question which one he was, but I'd never had the courage to ask why. My father was a writer, and we lived in Gatlin, South Carolina, because the Wates always had, since my great-great-great-great granddad, Ellis Wate, fought and died on the other side of the Santee River during the Civil War.
     Only folks down here didn't call it the Civil War. Everyone under the age of sixty called it the War between the States, while everyone over sixty called it the War of Northern Aggression, as if somehow the North had baited the South into war over a bad bale of cotton. Everyone, that is, except my family. We called it the Civil War.