Zane has a headache attack, and Tally takes him to the hospital under the guise of an injured hand. While in Uglyville, they find out that Shay has started a clique with Crim rejects called Cutters, where they cut themselves to cure the lesions. One day, Tally and Zane are found by Sussy and Dex, two uglies who helped Tally and David back when she was a Smokey. Cable offers Tally a job as a Special, which she immediately turns down. Later that night at the bonfire, Shay and Tally get into a huge fight, causing Shay to turn on Tally. One day the Crims pull a bubbly trick by using alcohol to melt a hovering ice rink and crash a soccer game, causing the clique to become famous.
They are fitted with cuffs similar to interface rings, but they can't come off.Īfter taking the pills, Zane starts getting bad headaches, but he seems to be more cured than Tally. Tally was afraid to take the pills alone, so she and Zane split them right before Special Circumstances arrive. The letter explains to her future self why she became a Pretty – to test two pills that will cure her from the foggy-headed life of a Pretty. They face strenuous, dangerous physical challenges in order to locate the item, which is accompanied by a letter from Tally to herself, written before she was turned pretty. Zane is eager to accompany Tally to find the object Croy has hidden for her. He regrets that he didn't go into the wilderness then. Zane had once known Croy and had been determined to escape to the Smoke before his surgery. Her peace is disrupted when Zane, the leader of the Crims, asks her about David, whom she loved while she lived in the Smoke. Tally returns to her carefree life as a Pretty. They bounce, though Tally is hit in the head hard enough to make her bleed, and is voted into the Crims because of her "bubbly" stunt.
Real Specials arrive, so he leaves and Tally tries to follow him by jumping off a balcony with Peris, who is wearing a bungee jacket. He tells her that he left a note for Tally in Valentino Mansion.
She soon finds him and discovers that it is Croy, a Smokey she knew before she turned pretty. While attending the bash, at which she is to be voted into the "Crims" clique, she is followed by someone who appears to be a "Special", a member of Special Circumstances. The book begins with Tally, the main protagonist, as a Pretty debating what to wear to a bash. It tells the story of teenager Tally Youngblood who rebels against society's enforced conformity in hopes of exposing the societies dangerous obsessions with perfection and uniformity.
The premise of the novel relies on a future set in a future dystopian world in which everyone is turned "Pretty" by extreme cosmetic surgery upon reaching age 16. Pretties is a 2005 science fiction novel and the second book of the Uglies Trilogy written by Scott Westerfeld.
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