The book I read was Pretties by: Scott Westerfeld. This book is the second of a trilogy. The first book is Ugly. You will understand Pretties better if you read Uglies. Pretties was about a girl named Tally who finally became pretty. At first she thought it was what she wanted, until she rediscovered the truth about how to become pretty. In the first book Tally meets David, whose parents knew that truth. And that truth was horrible. Becoming pretty had its drawbacks. When you underwent surgery to make yourself beautiful, the doctors injured your brain, preventing you from remembering certain things from when you were ugly. The specials mostly wanted Tally to have the injuries because she knew the truth, which she shouldn't have known. She had also been to a secret place called Smoke, which was destroyed in the first book. But, after Tally kisses a boy named Zane, she starts to remember. Zane had started to remember much earlier and suspects that there is something wrong with the beauties, but he is not entirely sure. Since they were both slowly remembering, they decided to try to save themselves. At the beginning of the book a friend from Tally's bad days broke into New Pretty Town and crashed a party she was at. His name was Croy, and he had come to give Tally a note she had written to herself when she was ugly. The letter warned herself about the lesions and told her she was a "test subject" for a pill that could cure the lesions. Tally also wrote to herself that she agreed. To take the pill, Tally and Zane went through a series of difficult "tests," as Tally called them. For example, to get the key they needed to enter the shed where the package was located, they had to climb a thirty-story tower, which was located on top of another very tall building. When she and Zane got to the package, they found the letter to her and the pill. But he discovered there were two pills, not one. This confused her. Someone must have seen Tally and Zane because the specials had arrived. Tally was hesitant to take the pills, but couldn't show them to the specials, so she gave one to Zane and took one for herself..