The plan set in motion at the end of Uglies is well underway when Pretties by Scott Westerfeld begins -- Tally Youngblood is back in New Pretty City, now transformed in a "Pretty" -- a supermodel-level beauty. Like everyone. But also, like everyone, her brain has been turned to a bubble-headed mush by the operation. Will she escape the city? Will she even remember that she ever wanted to escape? (Ellipses... Of... Doom...)