Changes

Beyond this , the book uses the heavy metaphor, ironically looking at our beauty industries and our society's responses to surface looks and impressions. The operation is almost an obvious metaphor for puberty, except that that features here in a slightly different way, when 12-year old littlies are removed from their parents to be ugly elsewhere.

But from the time when Tally chooses between her pretty life and her one with Shay, this novel becomes less of a sci-fi metaphor stroke distopian dystopian drama, but gears towards a very successful action -adventure. The flow of the story is as pacey as the hoverboards, and I can't give any examples away for want of spoiling things, but there are a lot of good sequences.

Although as it started five years ago, when this first came out, it might be fading a little. I'm looking at these books only because of some new covers, which I like - a lot. But by concentrating on one benefit to the series, they hide another completely. The new montages of action and hi-tech suggest a rollercoaster riot of energy, and while there is are pace and drama galore, there is also a welter of character and other things of a more feminine persuasion. These show how this book stands out as being a sci-fi action drama that girls will love - a kind of book generally counted on the thumbs of one hand.

So does it stand out in any other way? Well, for me, no, but that's not to say this is not still a quality, dramatic, compelling, intelligent sci-fibook fi book for us all - pretty or otherwise.

More chase sequences in between thoughts of identity and medical procedures can be found in [[Being by Kevin Brooks]]. You might appreciate [[Dark Parties by Sara Grant]].