This story reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode "Number 12 looks just like you."

While the writing style is a little weak, and some of the analogies he used were not-good hilarious, the plot was interesting, and that sells. Nevertheless, the characters are endearing, and I like that even though the book is driven by looks, I have no idea what a lot the characters actually looks like, besides the things that define them as "ugly"...which is pretty fascinating.