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Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
2.0

Another book to add to the genre of young adult female (always female!?) characters making bad decisions for the sake of a more catastrophic plot. And while the world is perfectly fine, there's nothing really stellar about this dystopia in particular. I found myself speeding up the audiobook just to get it over with faster because I didn't hate it enough to refuse to finish it, but it felt like there were better things for me to do with my time. I always feel slightly guilty doing that, as though I somehow owe the narrator an apology for not listening to the book as intended.
Also, I refuse to believe that the teenagers of the future speak like Bill and Ted. My suspension of disbelief ends there.