A world of extreme beauty.
"Pretties" is the second novel of "Uglies". In this novel, everyone normal is an ugly, and after the operation they get transformed into stunning pretty. When you turn pretty, your looks are perfect, your clothes will be awesome, and all you need to have fun. Expect... Something loses inside you. You forget things from the past.
To test Maddy's pills that can fix the lesions in Pretties brain, Tally volunteered to be a willing subject to be test on. She went back from Smoke to the city to get transformed into pretty, and then she can be cured. The only problem with lesions in your brain is you begin to rely on this city, you don't think of things from you past, also because you forget most of them. ["I don't want to work for Special Circumstances. I just want to live here in New Pretty Town." (Westerfeld, 32)]What the operation has changed you is to an useless bubblehead. In this way, it's easier to have all the citizens under control. Tally also became a bubblehead as well, her memory of the Smoke faded, only vivd memories left were ugly and painful pasts. She enjoyed in New Pretty Town, Tally also made a new boyfriend Zane, completely ditching David.
A message from past
With high-tech luxury and the nonstop parties, it's such fun and cozy to live. But as time passed, Tally started to realize something's wrong. Then a message from the Smoke arrived. Tally and Zane managed to climb on top of Valentino Mansion Tower, they found a key and opened a room that was specifically reserved for Tally. Then, a letter from herself in the past displayed in front of Tally's eyes, also two pills neatly folded inside the letter. Suddenly Tally remembered what's wrong with being pretty, and everything from her old past. [Zane slowly lowered the sheet of paper, his eyes wide. "It's a letter, and it's addressed to you." "A letter? Who from?" "You, Tally." His voice echoed softly from the metal walls of the shack. "It's from you." (Westerfeld, 87)]