Some more Young Adult fiction, this one on recommendation from a friend. Brilliant book, and I totally want a hoverboard (to be honest I've wanted one since Back to the Future came out, but now more so). The themes of healthy self/body-image, free society, and environmentalism are not exactly subtle, but given the target audience is young adult I'm prepared to cut it some slack. The escape from mainstream society and life in The Smoke had strong overtones of Tomorrow, When the War Began
. I think the premise of making everyone 'pretty' to remove Darwinian evolutionary advantages of people with highly symmetrical faces and particular body shapes is brilliant (for a story that is, not government policy). As Tally explains it, before the operation existed:People who were taller got better jobs, and people even voted for some politicians just because the weren't quite as ugly as everybody else...Yeah, and people killed one another over stuff like having different skin color.
Of course, the operation is not all as it seems. I will definitely be reading the sequels Pretties, and Specials.
4.5 stars
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