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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