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Uglies: Shay's Story (Uglies: Graphic Novel #1)
“This whole game is just designed to make us hate ourselves.”—Shay
Uglies told Tally Youngblood’s version of life in Uglyville and the budding rebellion against the Specials. Now comes an exciting graphic novel revealing new adventures in the Uglies world—as seen through the eyes of Shay, Tally’s rebellious best friend who’s not afraid to break the rules, no matter the co...more
Uglies told Tally Youngblood’s version of life in Uglyville and the budding rebellion against the Specials. Now comes an exciting graphic novel revealing new adventures in the Uglies world—as seen through the eyes of Shay, Tally’s rebellious best friend who’s not afraid to break the rules, no matter the co...more
Paperback, Graphic Novel, 208 pages
Published
March 6th 2012
by Del Rey
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This pains me, it really does. I love the original series, I love the world westerfeld created and I especially enjoyed the character of Shay who, sadly, was more complex and interesting from Tally's point of view.
SIDENOTE: i always pictured Shay black, don't know why but it threw me to see her depicted as white (in fact I picture everyone alot more....diverse? everyone looked exactly the same I thought that was only supposed to happen AFTER you were made pretty)
BIGGEST issue is with the artwork...more
SIDENOTE: i always pictured Shay black, don't know why but it threw me to see her depicted as white (in fact I picture everyone alot more....diverse? everyone looked exactly the same I thought that was only supposed to happen AFTER you were made pretty)
BIGGEST issue is with the artwork...more
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Imagine a world where everyone is "ugly" until the day they turn 16 where people undergo an operation called the "Surge" that makes you "pretty". This is the world of the Uglies where beauty is everything. The Uglies is told from the point of view of Tally Youngblood. The Uglies: Shay's Story is a graphic novel spin off of the Uglies series and is told from the persepective of Tally's best friend Shay.
I enjoyed this graphic novel a lot more than Uglies because I find...more
Well…I was pretty excited about this when I first heard about it at a talk held by Scott Westerfeld but it was fairly disappointing. Shay just isn’t the Shay I remember and Tally is barely in it.
The art was super cool but other than that I just didn’t like it.
Don’t read this if you haven’t read Uglies. You will not know what’s going on. I barely did because it’s been like 3 or 4 years since I read it.
I will most likely read the second installment just because I want to see Shay as a Special.
The art was super cool but other than that I just didn’t like it.
Don’t read this if you haven’t read Uglies. You will not know what’s going on. I barely did because it’s been like 3 or 4 years since I read it.
I will most likely read the second installment just because I want to see Shay as a Special.
I'm a really big fan of the Uglies series; probably because it was the first dystopian series I've ever read. I loved the world-building, the characters, the villain and the message that still holds really close to me.
Fast forward more than two years later, and I encounter this book at the library. "Hmm," I thought. "Shay's story?" And in case you're wondering, Shay was, and still is, one of my favorite character. Regardless of how many people hate her (With good reason; she does become kind of...more
Fast forward more than two years later, and I encounter this book at the library. "Hmm," I thought. "Shay's story?" And in case you're wondering, Shay was, and still is, one of my favorite character. Regardless of how many people hate her (With good reason; she does become kind of...more
I usually don't prefer graphic novels, but Shay's Story is truly special. I think the theme is betrayal. Shay's love life is a little complicated, but when Tally comes in, you can see why the bond between Tally and Shay is fragile. They both used to love David, who dumped Shay for Tally. Before they both become Special, Shay feels betrayed by both Tally and David. She becomes angry and revengeful towards Tally, and when Croy defends her, Shay thinks Tally has stolen the heart of Croy too. Betray...more
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I got this in a stack of graphic novels I won. I'm not very good at these. I tend to skip across the graphics pretty quickly, so then the story seems quite thin. This is based on his series of novels. I suppose I might like the novels. About a time when everyone gets plastic surgery when they're old enough, whether you're already attractive or not, and before that everyone is called an Ugly. A pretty thin premise. There's a subculture of those who decide they don't want the surgery. They escape...more
As I am surrounded by Dystopian as it takes it's spot on the shelves as the New Vampires , it didn't surprise me to see a new copy of Uglies and in Graphic Novel but then when I looked at it closer , I discovered that it was told from Shay's POV. This made me more interested as I am not normally a fan of Graphic Novels/Manga but certain ones I have been found to enjoy.
Uglies Shay's story is basically a prequel I think to the novel "Uglies" which was told by Tally Youngblood's POV. In Uglies , w...more
Uglies Shay's story is basically a prequel I think to the novel "Uglies" which was told by Tally Youngblood's POV. In Uglies , w...more
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I absolutely loved Uglies. I liked Shay's Story, but I wasn't blown away by the graphic novel aspects. In some ways, it was perhaps that I read it too close to finishing Uglies, so a lot of it was redundant. If it's been a little while since you've finished Uglies or you just can't get enough of the world he creates, then you'll probably like it even more.
Westerfeld painted the world so clearly in his novel, that I think the graphic novel aspect got in my...more
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I absolutely loved Uglies. I liked Shay's Story, but I wasn't blown away by the graphic novel aspects. In some ways, it was perhaps that I read it too close to finishing Uglies, so a lot of it was redundant. If it's been a little while since you've finished Uglies or you just can't get enough of the world he creates, then you'll probably like it even more.
Westerfeld painted the world so clearly in his novel, that I think the graphic novel aspect got in my...more
I don't typically read manga book (aka I've never read one in my life), but when I saw this was an addition to Scott Westerfeld's Uglies series, I knew I had to give it a try! I love the Uglies books, so any new view I'm given into the awesome world Scott created is something I love to see.
When I first started reading it was tough to adjust to the change of medium (getting lots of the story through pictures instead of words). However, after a few chapters in I stopped thinking about how differen...more
When I first started reading it was tough to adjust to the change of medium (getting lots of the story through pictures instead of words). However, after a few chapters in I stopped thinking about how differen...more
I haven't read Westerfeld's Uglies set, but I had read his Risen Empire and the first two in his steampunk series. Recalling that my daughter said she was surprised by Uglies and that she rather liked it I picked this up for two reasons. The first to give her as part of an Easter present this weekend, and the other was to sample this sequence to determine if I would try it someday.
The answer is that I will probably try the novels. This manga inspired tale is told from Shay's viewpoint and not Ta...more
The answer is that I will probably try the novels. This manga inspired tale is told from Shay's viewpoint and not Ta...more
What can I say? It's Westerfeld, and we all know that I have a soft spot for him. However, I feel like this was kind of just a filler for him. Something to hold us fans over until he comes out with his next books, whatever they may be.
Now, don't get me wrong, there were parts I really enjoyed. I liked seeing how Shay met the Crims. I think it's interesting to know how she got into that group. And also how she met David and got along with him. I like that while she DID like David in the beginning...more
Now, don't get me wrong, there were parts I really enjoyed. I liked seeing how Shay met the Crims. I think it's interesting to know how she got into that group. And also how she met David and got along with him. I like that while she DID like David in the beginning...more
Uglies is a series written by Scott Westerfeld and has now been turned into a graphic novel. It is a great story and this new form will introduce different readers to series's improtant themes.
Shay (aka Skinny) is an Ugly. In her world, everyone is an Ugly until they turn 16 in which they undergo surgery (also called "the Surge") and become a Pretty. Shay's 16th birthday is coming up soon, but she meets up with a group of Crims and begins to question whether anyone is really ugly or needs surger...more
Shay (aka Skinny) is an Ugly. In her world, everyone is an Ugly until they turn 16 in which they undergo surgery (also called "the Surge") and become a Pretty. Shay's 16th birthday is coming up soon, but she meets up with a group of Crims and begins to question whether anyone is really ugly or needs surger...more
An ARC was provided by Del Rey / Spectra Books after winning the Goodreads giveaway.
I must admit that it has been a while since I last read Uglies. So long that when I started reading, I had to try very hard to remember who everybody was. It was hard, but what I did remember was that, in the first book, I did not particularly like Shay.
So, this graphic novel is set from Shay's point of view which I think is amazing. You could easily just have made Uglies into a graphic novel but with it set from...more
I must admit that it has been a while since I last read Uglies. So long that when I started reading, I had to try very hard to remember who everybody was. It was hard, but what I did remember was that, in the first book, I did not particularly like Shay.
So, this graphic novel is set from Shay's point of view which I think is amazing. You could easily just have made Uglies into a graphic novel but with it set from...more
This is a spinoff of Scott Westerfeld's wildly popular Uglies series. I have to admit that I tried to read Uglies but never got into it. I couldn't get into the culture that Mr. Westerfeld had made, and the characters were not engaging to me. But let's be honest, I'm in the minority because the series has taken off and is super well-known. Also I do like Scott Westerfeld's writing, I LOVED the Leviathan series and I think he's really gifted. This world is just not my thing.
I do like the fact tha...more
I do like the fact tha...more
This is a companion novel to the Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld and tells us the story of Shay. I enjoyed the Uglies series and was eager to learn more about Shay since she is more of a plot device than an actual person in the original series.
This book tells the story of what happened as both Shay and Tally approaced their sixteenth year, the year where they get the operation to be Pretty. This shows what Shay’s life was like before she met Tally and why she made the decisions she did.
This wa...more
This book tells the story of what happened as both Shay and Tally approaced their sixteenth year, the year where they get the operation to be Pretty. This shows what Shay’s life was like before she met Tally and why she made the decisions she did.
This wa...more
I read the Uglies series a few years ago and absolutely loved it. With the Hunger Games, it’s one of my favorite YA series and one against which I measure all the new dystopian YA series. So of course I wouldn’t pass on a illustrated version of the series, and when I saw it at the store last week, I immediately grabbed it. I am so glad that I can say that I really enjoyed it.
First, I really liked the illustrations. I don’t read that many mangas and graphic novels, but when I do I love the style...more
First, I really liked the illustrations. I don’t read that many mangas and graphic novels, but when I do I love the style...more
I'm a huge fan of the Uglies series, so when I found out that there would be a graphic adaptation, I was intrigued. Thankfully, this new version is not attempting to rehash the plot of Uglies. Rather, it is fleshing it out by telling Shay's story (as the title obviously implies). It's an interesting enough read, but I ultimately didn't feel that it captured the excitement of the original. Shay is a great character, but I'm not really feeling like this does her many favors. In other words, this i...more
I'm not really certain what purpose this book serves, other than the obvious money-making one.
The premise really grabbed me. Rather than re-telling and re-hashing the Uglies story as a graphic novel within the same perspective, Westerfield not only switched his point of view to Shay's, but he also allowed the reader to see characters like Zane before he was Pretty. Sounds like a cool idea, but the delivery is disappointing.
As a fan of dystopian stories in general and a fan of YA, I loved Uglies...more
The premise really grabbed me. Rather than re-telling and re-hashing the Uglies story as a graphic novel within the same perspective, Westerfield not only switched his point of view to Shay's, but he also allowed the reader to see characters like Zane before he was Pretty. Sounds like a cool idea, but the delivery is disappointing.
As a fan of dystopian stories in general and a fan of YA, I loved Uglies...more
I read the Uglies saga a long time ago and I definitely loved it. I had never read something like that before and...what can I say...was amazing.
So when I read that Scott Westerfeld was thinking to created a graphic novel, I was so excited. I thought that finally would have the opportunity to see those amazing escenarios, like the smooke and the ruins, without mention the characters.
Well, when I finally ordered it to Amazon a month a go I patiently wait until I saw the package in my front door,...more
Shay's Story was certainly an interesting view on the events that take place in Uglies. In the original novel, Shay took the role of secondary character and we weren't really aware of her full story. This manga hopes to provide us with her untold story.
The art is beautiful and well-done. This one certainly showcases a more likeable Shay, since she was quite irritating in Uglies. We now know what happened to Shay before she met Tally, and the struggle she went through when deciding to go to the S...more
The art is beautiful and well-done. This one certainly showcases a more likeable Shay, since she was quite irritating in Uglies. We now know what happened to Shay before she met Tally, and the struggle she went through when deciding to go to the S...more
let me start by saying that i'm a fan of graphic novels. there's something to be said about being given a visual of a story that coincides with the author's vision.
though i was glad to get shay's perspective on things, i do feel that a lot was lost in the formatting of this particular story. shay didn't seem like the shay that i remember from the books (and perhaps that's true, since the books are told from tally's perspective); she just didn't seem to have as much drive and fire in her, which...more
though i was glad to get shay's perspective on things, i do feel that a lot was lost in the formatting of this particular story. shay didn't seem like the shay that i remember from the books (and perhaps that's true, since the books are told from tally's perspective); she just didn't seem to have as much drive and fire in her, which...more
Haven't read the Uglies, but would like to. Graphic novels are great because you can read a complete book in little time, see the action and the characters, and get a complete story that has a different depth to it than a novel. This graphic fulfills my requirements for a good graphic novel in that it does have a nice, fairly well developed story line that a complete story packed into a shorter amount of printed word. The graphics were nice and helped the story along.
Basically, kids are conside...more
Basically, kids are conside...more
The Uglies, written by Scott Westerfeld, is an interesting book. It has many good and bad points about it. I find it very good for a graphic novel............
This book has a plot that is quite challenging to follow. I found it hard to know what was going on, mainly because it was a graphic novel and I found it hard to understand all the speech bubbles and all the different speech bubbles mean different things. So if she is talking to someone I would think she is talking in her head.
I liked the f...more
This book has a plot that is quite challenging to follow. I found it hard to know what was going on, mainly because it was a graphic novel and I found it hard to understand all the speech bubbles and all the different speech bubbles mean different things. So if she is talking to someone I would think she is talking in her head.
I liked the f...more
Fans of Scott Westerfeld's Uglies series will enjoy Shay's side of the story. Find out how Shay met David, became Tally's friend, and found her way to the Smoke. In the name of biological superiority and survival of the human race everyone has plastic surgery at 16. Two girls waiting for their 16th birthday meet and get a high off of sneaking around sophisticated security systems to pull pranks. When Shay hears about a settlement of people who never have the surgery and live outside the city, sh
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I won a copy on Goodreads Firstreads.
This is the black and white graphic novel of The Uglies book.Done in the manga style of artwork.A very nice adaptation of the novel.
The story follows the ugly Shay.Uglies are teenagers waiting to undergo the surgery to make them pretties.Pretties basically live a continual party.So who wouldn't want to become one of them?The Crims are a group of uglies who live to pull pranks and who want to leave Uglyville for the wild.Shay joins the Crims but backs out of h...more
This is the black and white graphic novel of The Uglies book.Done in the manga style of artwork.A very nice adaptation of the novel.
The story follows the ugly Shay.Uglies are teenagers waiting to undergo the surgery to make them pretties.Pretties basically live a continual party.So who wouldn't want to become one of them?The Crims are a group of uglies who live to pull pranks and who want to leave Uglyville for the wild.Shay joins the Crims but backs out of h...more
I wasn't sure what to expect from this, but I can honestly say that I was pleasantly surprised by what I found. Not only that, I want to read more of the story. I may have to track down the novels that make up the rest of the series just to get the other pieces. The part that has me baffled is that the volume ended with a clear "to be continued" notation in the final panel.
One thing that struck me as odd was that the volume was presented very much as manga rather than the style of art that we ar...more
One thing that struck me as odd was that the volume was presented very much as manga rather than the style of art that we ar...more
This is a pre-quel/companion book to Uglies by Scott Westerfeld written in Manga form. The story is told from the point of view of Shay, who is a character in the other books. It tells the story of why Shay didn't run off to the Smoke with her friends and was still hanging around in Uglyville to meet Tally at the beginning of Uglies.
In a way Shay is a stronger, more respectable character than Tally. She had more of a sense of self as an ugly, while Tally never did. But I still find her extremely...more
In a way Shay is a stronger, more respectable character than Tally. She had more of a sense of self as an ugly, while Tally never did. But I still find her extremely...more
Uglies told Tally Youngblood’s version of life in Uglyville and the budding rebellion against the Specials. Now comes an exciting graphic novel revealing new adventures in the Uglies world—as seen through the eyes of Shay, Tally’s rebellious best friend who’s not afraid to break the rules, no matter the cost.
A few months shy of her sixteenth birthday, Shay eagerly awaits her turn to become a Pretty—a rite-of-passage operation called “the Surge” that transforms ordinary Uglies into paragons of be...more
A few months shy of her sixteenth birthday, Shay eagerly awaits her turn to become a Pretty—a rite-of-passage operation called “the Surge” that transforms ordinary Uglies into paragons of be...more
This book was amazing. I haven't read the novels which provided this graphic's source material, although I'm familiar with Mr. Westerfield's work. I loved the illustrations as they depicted both a society with an all-controlling government that deems everyone an "ugly" until plastic surgery can make them pretty and the world Shay discovers that rejects such notions by rejecting the government.
The author and artist have done a marvelous job building suspense. I actually found a few portions prett...more
The author and artist have done a marvelous job building suspense. I actually found a few portions prett...more
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Scott Westerfeld is a New York Times bestselling American-born author of YA sci-fi literature. He was born in the Texas and now lives in Sydney and New York City. In 2001, Westerfeld married fellow author Justine Larbalestier.
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