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Bea
May 31, 2022 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
To be upfront, I did not really "get" the ugly & pretty concepts at first. But, then when I read that Rusties magazines showed all the many variations of our current normal...that I began to understand. This may have been a matter of my own societal normal or the fact that I am in my 7th decade of life, still it took me a while.

Perhaps, a teen might have picked up on this earlier than I did as it seems to me teenagers are in the midst of the wanting to be part of the group think thingy.

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BJ Rose
Dec 04, 2012 rated it really liked it
More like 3.5*, but it drew me in enough that giving it just 3* didn't seem right. I liked it enough to go on to Pretties sometime soon. ...more
Angela Randall
Well written dystopian tale for young adults which wasn't entirely surprising if you've read a few dystopian stories before. I loved the environmental attitudes throughout and I'm sure the YA audience would really get into the hoverboarding and the moral dilemmas posed in the story. ...more
Melody
Jul 27, 2009 rated it really liked it
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Sep 07, 2009 marked it as wishlist
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Mar 01, 2010 rated it really liked it
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May 08, 2010 rated it it was ok
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Feb 13, 2011 rated it really liked it
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Feb 12, 2019 rated it liked it
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Apr 12, 2020 rated it really liked it