Is Pretties (2005) CHUD or WOKE?
chudrank score: 49 / 100 (roughly neutral). 0 is CHUD (right-wing), 100 is WOKE (left-wing).
Book by Scott Westerfeld, 2005.
7 votes: 43% WOKE, 57% CHUD.
Why: Beauty-brainwashing dystopia critiquing appearance culture
Finally surgically transformed into a "pretty," sixteen-year-old Tally, now gorgeous and programmed to think only happy thoughts, is plagued by tangled memories of living in the Smoke, a rebel colony of "ugly" runaways hiding from the Special Circumstances authorities.