Honestly, I was a little underwhelmed by this. I've heard for a long time, "You should read Scott Westerfield! His dystopia is great!" I guess it's my fault, because I'm not a huge fan of dystopian literature, as much as I'd like to be. I enjoyed the characters to some extent. The world was pretty cool. But for all the commentary on two-dimensionality, I found the characters (and the plot) to be a little, well, two-dimensional. I can see the set-up for the love triangle that's sure to come in Pretties, and I'm honestly not looking forward to it. Insert eye-roll and yawn here. Been there, done that. But it was still entertaining, and I thought some of the descriptions were really nice, so well done to Westerfield for keeping me somewhat entertained.