Tally Youngblood lives a world of the future, where humanity was saved from destruction by the newly created world. Tally is 15 almost 16, her best friend Peris turned 16 a few months before her so he got the surgery every 16 years old gets when they turn 16, the surgery to make them “Pretty” and perfect just like the new world was. Tally was just a few weeks away from being Pretty when she met shay, her new best friend. Shay taught her about new things like how to use hoverboards and what you can do at the rusty ruins. The rusty ruins are almost all of what’s left of the past, but what most people don’t know is that you can meet someone from the smoke, the community outside of their enclosed world. The smoke is where some uglies go a few months before their surgery so they never to become “Pretty“. Shay ran to the smoke leaving a note hoping tally would follow, but she didn’t and on her birthday she got picked up for her surgery and waited for hours. Tally was taken to a building on the edge of town and inside she met Dr.Cable the head of special circumstances who sends …show more content…
Tally ends up being part of the new smoke trying to find a cure for the brain damage implanted into the Pretties. She starts with one wish, that wish is to become a perfect Pretty, but in the end she wanted to fix all the wrong that has been done to all the innocent Prettys because of the leaders of the city think will keep the world together. Tally finds that what she really believes in is being different because she feels when you become a Pretty you lose yourself in the beauty and mind set. Tally is brave because she was willing to risk her self and mind to find if the cure for the lesions in the Pretties brains worked because she wanted all of the Pretties to be able to see the world in their own minds not the one created for