The Bar Code Tattoo

Individuality vs. Conformity

Identity vs. Access

Freedom vs. Control

The bar code tattoo. Everybody's getting it. It will make your life easier, they say. It will hook you in. It will become your identity.

But what if you say no? What if you don't want to become a code? For Kayla, this one choice changes everything. She becomes an outcast in her high school. Dangerous things happen to her family. There's no option but to run...for her life.

This book begins very quickly and captures you till the very end. 
I found that you are able to understand how this book goes, if you think about it how far off are we from the bar code tattoo that not only tracks everything you do, but tells you things about your DNA and medical records that you dont even know yet? 
This book shows how we evolved from SSN, Drivers License, Credit cards- to future 2020-2025 where the have e-cards, which stored all their money- paper money no longer existed. Cell phones became a thing of the past since everything became electronic. The bar code tattoo became something that anyone who turned 17 would get, at first it wasn't mandatory, but that soon changed. The government was over taken by a company called Global-1 who ran everything from the food you put on your table to your money and even your health. The bar code tattoo was just suppose to store your banking, and ID you except it stored much more than anyone realized. 

Follow Kayla along her journey to resist the bar code tattoo and the group she joins called the decoders, watch as people she trust turn their back on her, stab her in the back, and even traitors among them. This story will stay with you and you will be rushing to read the next 2 books in the series, I am currently waiting for the other 2 books from the library. But i will be posting again soon !

Uglies series Review

Uglies #1 (in series): This book caught my attention from the book cover actually, i found it to be interesting because they show you a white cloth with woman's fingernails painted bright colors. Almost as if she was fake, the skin looks perfect. Too good to be true kind of thing. The story tells about a future where everyone at sixteen gets a surgery to be "pretty" and move out of the current town everyone lives in called ugly ville. I know sounds insane but the book was actually really interesting and fun to read. So while the book goes about telling us how amazing it is to be living in the "pretty town" we see the main character Tally who can't wait to turn sixteen and have her surgery so she can leave the dorm, and move on with her life, and re connect with her best friend who had the surgery already. Then we learn about this group called "smokies" who are anti-pretty. They dont want the surgery, and they don't want to change their appearance, so they live out in the "wild" and are calling for more young boys/girls to join their cause, and fight against the government and this surgery.
Pretties #2: In this book, Tally has finally become pretty, and the perks of being pretty. Pretty mind- no negative thoughts, a non-stop party, all the friends she could ever want, a nice fancy house to live in with the best technology. What more could a girl want right? Except Tally feels like something's wrong- something she forgot when she was an ugly... Thats when something, or someone comes from her past and she remembers. Now Tally makes the hardest decision, does she ignore what she remembered, or does she fight against the government ? This book was action packed and had you on the edge of your seat waiting to see what would happen. 
Specials #3: Now we are in the third book of the series, and a lot has happened- I'm not giving away any major spoilers- just giving you the basic overview. So now we have read what Tally decided and how it affected her life, and her friends lives. So in this series, we learn about the myserteous "Specials" who were thought to be just a rumor to scare kids into behaving. Much like our tall tale of the bogeyman. Except the specials are anything but a tale- they are real and much scarier than anyone could have thought. Tally has been turned into one of them, she is a super fighting machine meant to keep the uglies at bay, and the pretties stupid- in their happy party world. Once again Tally feels that familiar tingle of something she forgot, does she hold onto that? When the head Specials give her the task to finally stomp out the "new smokies" does she take her Special mind and run with their orders- or does she finally give into that feeling and remember everything- and fight against her now very nature... Read to find out.. 
Extra's #4: I started to read this but was unable to actually get through it- since it didn't involve any of the characters from the previous books, this is set years afters Tally and her friends. It  is also set in another area of the world, i believe Asia or Japan.. Sadly i cant give you a review since like i said i didn't enjoy the few sections i did read.
This is deff a series i enjoyed- even though it is labeled young adult/teen. I still found it be to fascinating, i loved that i was able to transport into a different world, and the descriptions are so amazing you can picture yourself there with them following along.