draggonlaady

Just finished Uglies, by Scott Westerfeld. For such a hefty book, it was a surprisingly quick read-I picked it up and finished it in one straight read of about 5-6 hours. Not bad time for 425 pages, I suppose. Good world concept, engaging story, and most of the characters were quite good...except that I really wasn't fond of the main character. Don't get me wrong; she's not a silly empty shell non-character, like the cardboard cut-out girl-shaped hole in the story that was the lead in Twilight. Tally is a very well-developed, well-written, and convincing character. It's just that she was so... lacking conviction? Weak willed, I guess. She didn't really start showing a spine and standing up for herself instead of just running away from each successive push until the very end of the book. I am pretty sure that the second book will be about redemption for the bullshit she allowed herself to be pushed into in the beginning of the first, but I don't HAVE the second book. Yet. Good sign for how engaging the writing is, I suppose, that I fully intend to acquire the sequel, Pretties, despite my lack of empathy with the main character through most of the first book.