Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

27 reviews

jessicohen15's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

The world building is unreal here. Cannot wait to read the next book.

it’s definitely heartbreaking to hear about the lesions but the depth it brings to the story is breathtaking

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Genocide, Bullying, Confinement, Fatphobia, Eating disorder, Body shaming, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, War, Classism, and Death

larvapuppy's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Grief, Medical content, Murder, and Death of parent

madisone's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming and Fatphobia

Moderate: Ableism and Death of parent

Minor: Eating disorder

madmantha's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

It was really interesting rereading this in 2022; many things still feel relevant today, if not more so in some cases. 

The love triangle still feels a bit forced; I’d love for them to take it in a queer or poly direction in the new series adaption. 
I got heavy “gal pals” energy between Tally and Shay in this reading; which isn’t something I remember noticing or feeling when I read this years ago. 

This is still one of my favorite books and I’m very much looking forward to continuing to share the series with my partner. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Toxic relationship, Fire/Fire injury, Dysphoria, Body shaming, Police brutality, Violence, Abandonment, Death, Fatphobia, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Alcohol and Death of parent

Minor: Kidnapping, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Ableism, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Grief, Hate crime, Acephobia/Arophobia, Body horror, Body shaming, Animal death, Blood, Confinement, Deadnaming, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Bullying, Classism, Colonisation, Forced institutionalization, Panic attacks/disorders, Animal cruelty, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Police brutality, and Toxic friendship

zoepagereader's review against another edition

adventurous tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

I really enjoyed the concept of this one. But the middle bit was so slow for like 200 pages. I am glad I stuck with it though, because it got really good at there end. Also, I just thought the names of the cities were really dumb. Where do the pretties live? New Pretty Town of course! And where do the uglies live? Uglyville! Still, I am looking forward to reading the next one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Body shaming

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

erimore's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

I missed out on reading this when it was really popular so I decided to give it a chance. Definitely great for its target age group but the characters could be more developed. The romance was dry and I couldn’t really get behind it because there was very little lead up. The moral struggle for Tally would have been impact for me when reading this as a teen, especially since it is about looks and appearance. I would definitely recommend this to the target YA teen 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming and Death of parent

kp_writ's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming

Moderate: Ableism and Fatphobia

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Death, Eating disorder, Medical content, Mental illness, Police brutality, and Kidnapping