Cable, our old nemesis from Uglies, drops by and offers Tally a spot in the Specials, revealing how the entire society is designed to control the masses while filtering out intelligent, resourceful people like Tally for work in Special Circumstances. But Special Circumstances is keeping a close eye on Tally. They plot to escape from New Pretty Town and rejoin the New Smokies. So Tally embarks on a quest to free herself and several other pretties.
We get to see New Pretty Town from "the inside," because Tally Youngblood is now pretty-and vapid, at least until a letter from her past self jogs her memory that there's more to life than flash tattoos, parties, and cliques. Scott Westerfeld further fleshes out his post-apocalyptic adolescent dystopia. Form three teams - one pro-Diego, one pro-Smoke and one pro-Pretty Town - and discuss the positives and negatives of each.My review of Uglies stands for Pretties, because they are pretty much the same book.
Debate the benefits of Pretty Town versus the Smoke versus Diego. What materials found in the wild could you use to fit in at the Smoke? In Diego, would you have a snake for a pinky? How would you use your sneak suit in your everyday life? Design your own Smoke fashions, Diego surge or sneak suits. Put a pretty spin on a sport (think about the suspended ice skating rink in Pretties) and come up with your own bubbly rules and regulations. Where do you see Tally two years after the end of Specials? How about Shay? Peris? What do you think Pretty Town and Diego would be like two years later?. Cable a protagonist or an antagonist? At what points in the series does she seem more good than evil or more evil than good? Does she have the best interests of the people of Pretty Town at heart or is she simply trying to gain power and prestige? Which location - New Pretty Town, the Smoke, or Diego - would you want to make your home? Which of Tally’s futuristic possessions would you like to own? What were your favorite slang words in the series? The author created new worlds, new technology and new language for the books. Cable’s controls and our own government? Just as Tally and her friends were brought up learning about the failure of the Rusties’ society, what lessons can be learned from the future portrayed in the series? Compare Tally’s society with our society today. How does her relationship with each of the three effect her decisions at different points in the story? Which of the three do you think made the greatest impact on Tally? 
Tally has three important guys in her life: Peris, David and Zane.On your sixteenth birthday, how would you feel about being forced to have the surgery to become pretty? Would you feel like Tally or like Shay? If your best friend asked you to not have the surgery, what do think you would have chosen to do?.
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