I expected better writing I guess. The story itself is ok, the idea that a future generation only keep their children around while they are 'littlies' sending them off to a sort of boarding school when they become 'uglies' and then on their 16th birthday giving them life changing surgery to make them perfect and pretty is a great idea. The idea that some of the young teens want to rebel and the plot twist and secret they discover when they do...it's got the making of a great story but read more like a sell for a movie, maybe that's the trouble with YA fiction, everyone wants a movie, so less effort is put into the writing. The characters are not very rounded or deep, there is not much back story to anyone. It's a shame. Will I read the rest? Maybe if I see them in the library, I wouldn't buy them though. I neither know nor care about any of the character to really be bothered about what happens to them next.