Westerfeld, I took it up and instantly fell in love with the world he writes all over again. I ended up opening to a random page to skim and found that the author had unknowingly preyed on my love of anything Japanese, for the characters in the last book are, indeed, Japanese. In fact, when one died, I was so upset that I spent two whole weeks debating whether or not the last book was even worth reading because I knew that character wouldn’t be in it and I was so upset about their death. Westerfeld wrote each character in a way that you could truly appreciate each one. It was consistent, and accurate with the world, but at the same time, I grew to dislike her personality, but NOT her as a character. I enjoyed her character in the beginning, but – per the story line – her personality changed with each book. I don’t necessarily like the main characters throughout the series, but I appreciate the way they were written. I enjoyed the way each character is written.
Not with the characters, but with the world itself. When I finished the series, I wanted more. There’s the straight passage that gets you through the level’s quickest, but there’s also hidden areas for side games that you want to explore before you get to the end.
To me, the worlds feel like a video game. A year after I read The Midnighters, I finally took Uglies out from the library with a sense of ‘what the hell, I have nothing else to read.’ Within the first few pages, I was drawn into a story of not only interesting characters, but a world I wish actually existed. I had read Westerfeld’s series The Midnighters, but none of his other series. I suspected that – because of the covers – the books were the type of books I didn’t care to read: stories of preppy, perfect girls and rejects. Description: When these books first came out, I was reluctant to read them.
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