Uglies, Pretties, Specials by Scott Westerfeld

"Uglies is the first book of the trilogy. The second book is Pretties and the third is Specials. It's about a world in which everyone has an operation when they turn sixteen, making them supermodel beautiful. Big eyes, full lips, no one fat or skinny. This seems like a good thing, but it's not. Especially if you're one of the uglies, a bunch of radical teens who've decided they want to keep their own faces. (How anti-social of them.)"

This trilogy is no longer a trilogy since the forth book, Extras, has been published. Extras is still for the Library to acquire though.

By the same author, we already have Peeps (vampires again) and it's sequel The last days in the MS library. I am reading Peeps at the moment, and I think I would have liked it more if I was a teenager, the author tries a little too hard to sound like someone "cool" for my liking.

Uglies was checked out the moment it arrived, so I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but I will.

The Gemma Doyle trilogy by Libba Bray

Gemma Doyle lives in India but when a tragedy happens to her family she is sent of to a boarding school in England to learn how to behave like a favorable young lady, to be suitable for marriage. She is troubled by visions of the Realms, and is followed by a strange young man. She becomes friends with three other girls at the school, who all have more or less tragic lifes. The girls finds a way to enter Realms with tragic consequenses. The only one who can set out to bring the Realms back in control of an order, is Gemma.

I read the first novel in the series, A great and terrible beauty, but I didn't feel the urge to continue with the other two. Probably these books will do better or a somewhat younger audience. But the covers are beautiful!

Read more about the trilogy and the author Libba Bray.