
Cable of the secret police (Special Circumstances), and Dr. Unfortunately for her, she's been watched by Dr. Eventually, Shay tells Tally about a hidden town in the wilderness where no one is pretty, but Tally doesn't want to go. Shay and Tally argue (and argue and argue) about whether the pretty surgery is a good thing. But when she almost gets in trouble (breaking into New Pretty Town), she meets Shay, an ugly who is a little more rebellious.

Tally Youngblood is about to get the pretty surgery-which will be great, because her best friend already lives in the pretty part of the city. Part I: The hero is introduced and accepts the adventure The slightly-longer-but-still-short plot summary breaks down nicely into three parts (thanks to the fact that the book has three parts), in a classic three-act structure:

Tally Youngblood wants to have the surgery that will make her pretty but then she gets caught up in a rebellion against society and comes to appreciate a world where not everyone is pretty-and then ( irony alert) she has to turn herself in to be turned pretty. The super-short plot basically goes like this:
