For those of us who have not read the series, could you please tell us in what ways the author is failing at writing about women and girls? I'd like to hear about this.
He's attempting to write "strong" female characters but ends up making them wishy-washy, lying, scheming, and helpless. They make decisions half the time based on wanting to impress males or because they are concerned about the safety of a boy who looked at them once or something equally inane.
If you want to know about plot, it's about a future society where everyone gets plastic surgery when they reach a certain age (I forgot what age exactly) so that everyone is "perfect." But everyone's shallow and life is kind of meaningless. The series is about the characters trying to either break out or change the system. That's my summary, anyways.
Um, yeah, I suffered through the first one a year or so ago. Didn't bother reading the others. I don't remember specifics, but I know I thought that it really sucked.
I got half-way through Uglies because I thought the concept and idea seemed interesting. But Tally was such a shallow (probably intentional, but still) idiot I couldn't stand to read any more about her. Gee, what did you think what happen if you crushed the signal device right in the middle of the secret base as opposed to oh, away from it?
I liked Uglies a lot. Pretties I started to side-eye it a little bit. By Specials, I was just like "oh ffs." And now, I'm reading Extras and it's just so FORCED.
I read the series a couple of years ago, but I do remember really enjoying the first three books (I don't really remember the fourth). Bearing in mind I would have been about fourteen when I read them, so perhaps that accounted for loving them all.
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Maybe I just wasn't in the right mood for it! IDK
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...Now I want to read them again.
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