Pretties
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Pretties is the second novel in the Uglies trilogy. Written by Scott Westerfeld, it continues the story of protagonist Tally Youngblood, who turns "pretty" to infiltrate New Pretty Town. Throughout this book it explains Tally's journey as a pretty and her new relationship with her boyfriend Zane who is also the leader of the Crims.
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| Author | Scott Westerfeld |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Uglies Trilogy |
| Genre(s) | Young adult |
| Publisher | Simon Pulse |
| Released | May 5, 2005 |
| Media Type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 370 |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-316-70129-7 |
| Followed by | Specials |
Contents |
[edit] The Cure
On the night of joining the Crims, a clique for Pretties who played lots of tricks in thier Ugly days, Tally sees Croy, a Smokey, who said he had something to give her. He said that he hid the package at "Valentino 317", which isn't a real room at Valentino Mansion. The next day, she meets Zane for breakfast, they talk but don't each much, and then they kiss. Then she tells him her encounter with Croy and where her "package" was supposed to be. He decides to come along with her to get the package, so they leave their interface rings behind. At Valentino Mansion, they go up to the roof, and climb a large anttenae to get a key to open the door to Valentino 317, which they found.
She discovers that it is a note she wrote to herself back when she was an Ugly. The note was meant for her to read when she was a Pretty and explained that she had given her consent to test a cure for the lesions built into an Ugly during their surgery to become a Pretty. The lesions were meant for Pretties to be dumb. It also made them forget a lot of things about their past. The letter came with a cure which was two pills to take. Because the note said that the cure was "untested" and "brain-dead is bad", she is afraid and the Specials are coming. Zane rushes her to take the pills because if she dosen't the Specials might get them out of her. He says if she won't than he will. Then they take them together hoping for the best.
Right after they take the pills, they kiss, and the Specials come. Unable to think of a good excuse for why they were on the roof of a building without their interface rings, the Specials give them interface cuffs, which can call from anywhere, even in buildings where the walls don't talk. These cuffs are also impossible to remove. Other people think that they are cool and wear fake ones.
The Crims also get flash tatoos on their faces, a trend started by Tally. The tatoos move with their heartbeat and if they are "Bubbly".
[edit] Argument with Shay/Meeting with Dr.Cable
After an incident that occurred in which Tally and Zane create a break through in a floating ice skating rink(which was done to get the Smokies attention knowing they have taken the cure). The Crims have a party. At a party Zane gets a headache(because of the cure)and Tally takes him home.That same night while she was going back to the party Tally encounters Dr.Cable the Special that ruined and manipulated both Zane's and Tally's lives. She asks Tally to become a special but Tally refuses.When she returns Shay tells Tally how much she thinks she's changed since Tally has been starting to hang out with Zane.Tally tells Shay about the pills that her and Zane took and Shay gets upset.Shay starts remembering everything bad that Tally did to her when they were uglies. She gets mad at Tally for not giving the cure to her.One day while it's raining Tally and Zane decideded to go hover boarding. They meet two uglies from Tally's past and they tell them that they have seen Pretties in a garden. Then Zane and Tally sees Shay and a group of other Crims and other Pretties cutting them selves with a knife. Tally knows Shay has created another way to stay bubbly and another way to cure herself.
[edit] The Escape
So Zane, Tally, Fausto and many other Crims from New Pretty Town escape to go find the New Smoke and get the cure. They also go to find a cure for Zane's horribe headaches (which is later discovered that the pill he took started eating out his brain).Before leaving Tally figures out a way to get the interface bracelets off her and Zane while they are on the hot air balloons getting out of the city. As soon as she gets them off its time to leave as they reach the edge of the city. Zane tells her he loves her and kisses her right before he jumps of the balloon with his hoverboard. She is touched by his words but had no time to think as time was drawing near. She says goodbye to Peris as he told her he didn't want to leave New Pretty Town. After jumping off the balloon waiting for her hoverboard(which is suppoesed to catch her)she gets lost in a jungle near the Rusty Ruins and breaks her hoverboard. She finds a village which has people that can't speak her language. They find someone and he tells her that she is a god. They travel to 'the edge of the world' where she finds these dolls that won't let her go past without killing her.He tells her the only way she can get out is by hovercar. The Specials come to give supplies to the villiage. She steals a hovercar and gets to The New Smoke and meets David instead of Zane. They look at each other and say hi. Its very weird because she kind of remebers David but he was so ugly. He can't believe how much she changed and if it her.
[edit] The New Smoke
She encounters David and it is very awkard between them. He realizes Tally's new relationship with Zane and that she doesn't feel the same about him anymore(she even remarks how ugly he seems). Tally discovers why there were two pills. One to give you nanoprobes to clear the lesion and one to stop them. Then they figure out she took the ones to stop them and that it did nothing to her brain. Tally had cured herself. The story ends when shortly after their arrival to The New Smoke Specials arrive and The New Smoke is destroyed. The smokies leave and when David asks her to leave Zane and go before the Specials arrive she refuses and tells him to get his ugly face out. His mom says that it won't matter if she stays that she still has the leasion but is cured. Dr. Cable comes and says that she had stopped the nanoprobes in Zane's mind and how the tracker(how they found The New Smoke) gave him feelings(headaches) like he was cured. Then when Tally sees a hoverboard coming down with a Special she sees the Special is.....Shay. She explains that the Cutters and her are a new branch of Specials that can look however they want but still a little bit of a cruel Pretty. Then she asked Tally to join the Cutters but she refuses. Then Shay says she can force her to become one and she does. The last thing she hears before the operation is "Face it Tally you're Special".
