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See more books from this AuthorShay is a more interesting protagonist than the rather passive Tally, protagonist of the Uglies novels; unlike Tally, Shay is driven to act by her own desires and goals rather than the desires and goals of others, and the story that results is far more engrossing.
Read Full Review of Uglies: Shay's Story | See more reviews from Publishers WeeklyWhile Cumming’s mangaesque art is craftsmanlike, it is also limited in its range; the underage Uglies and the older Pretty cohort appear similarly flawless, undermining a vital element of the story.
Read Full Review of Uglies: Shay's Story | See more reviews from Publishers WeeklyIn so doing, Westerfeld and co illuminate more of the Uglies world -- and bring to it a set of visuals that flesh out and enhance the original novels.
Read Full Review of Uglies: Shay's StoryThe art work is beautifully done and adds to the characterization of these young people.
Read Full Review of Uglies: Shay's StoryAnd while Steven Cummings' illustrations have a wonderful manga feel to them, the one criticism I have is that the pretties look no better than the uglies.
Read Full Review of Uglies: Shay's StoryThe art was good – I loved the character designs for the girls and for the hoverboards, but I wasn’t so wild about the design for the guys, though, in general.
Read Full Review of Uglies: Shay's StoryOverall, Shay's Story is a must-read for fans of the Uglies series.
Read Full Review of Uglies: Shay's StoryThe graphic novel format makes the story more accessible to readers who struggle to read decent sized novels (being a novel more than 200 pages long), and the short chapters make it easy to pick up and put down if you are doing other things.
Read Full Review of Uglies: Shay's StoryI flew through this graphic novel just as quickly as I flew through the original books.
Read Full Review of Uglies: Shay's StoryWhen Tally, the protagonist of the novels, shows up, the story assumes we know some things a new reader won’t.
Read Full Review of Uglies: Shay's StoryUglies: Shay’s Story is a pop concept tailor-made for Hollywood, but the narrative plays out as a coming-of-age story that wants to be more complicated than the latest hot thing.
Read Full Review of Uglies: Shay's StoryAlso, the artwork is awesome for the most part, but there are some facial expressions that look really awkward and David’s ridiculous hair style is just terrible.
Read Full Review of Uglies: Shay's StoryThe conflict between her and Tally also feels rushed toward the end, almost as if the page count was quickly approaching and the story needed to be wrapped up.
Read Full Review of Uglies: Shay's StoryIt has all the earmarks of a writer trying to cram a complete young adult novel into 200 comic pages, which of course never works.
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