And how anyone can be an instant celebrity. The ratings of your feed (combined with how much the city interface overhears people talking about you) determines your social status-so everyone knows at all times how famous they are.Īs Scott Westerfeld explored the themes of extreme beauty in the first three Uglies books, now he takes on the world's obsession with fame and popularity. The final installment of Scott Westerfeld’s New York Times bestselling and award-winning Uglies seriesa global phenomenon that started the dystopian trend. From the flap copy: Frey has spent her life in a family of deceivers, a stand-in for her sister, manipulated at her father’s command. Buy it at your local bookstore, or click here. As the title suggests, it marks the return of Tally Youngblood. One of the features of the new world is that everyone has a "feed," which is basically their own blog/myspace/tv channel. The final book in the new Uglies series, YOUNGBLOODS, is out now. Culture is splintering, the cities becoming radically different from each other as each makes its own way into this strange and unpredictable future. Boundless human creativity, new technologies, and old dangers have been unleashed upon the world. The cure has spread from city to city, and the pretty regime that kept humanity in a state of bubbleheadedness has ended. Extras, the final book in the Uglies series, is set a couple of years after the "mind-rain," a few earth-shattering months in which the whole world woke up.
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