While some elements of it could be considered dystopian, others really weren’t, and there were a variety of settings that helped keep it feeling fresh. Impostors, on the other hand, felt more like your standard scifi story, although it did that well. It was utterly unlike anything else I’d read when I first picked it up, which is why I liked it so much. Uglies had a unique premise: a world centred around plastic surgery at various stages in your life, with bonus mind control elements.
Since the events of the Uglies series, the world has become very different, and in some ways… I felt it had become less original. The extent of overlap isn’t huge: there are references to some of the characters from Uglies and at least one actually appears on-page, but it’s primarily focused on a whole new set of characters. I found myself comparing it to Uglies, instead of experiencing it at face value. It’s hard to judge it as a book in its own right, though, because it belongs to this preexisting universe. While there’s still some slang, it didn’t feel as juvenile, and overall I liked the prose a lot more than I was expecting. I suppose because I associated it with Uglies, I expected it to have a similar writing style, but it’s very clear that Westerfeld has improved as a writer since he wrote the original series, and it’s more enjoyable to read as a result.
I wasn’t sure whether I was interested in another book in that series, even though I’ve read and enjoyed some of Westerfeld’s other books.īut I’m please to say I was actually pleasantly surprised by it. Mostly, my lack of attention was because when I reread Uglies a little while ago… I felt like I’d outgrown it somewhat.
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