Tally Youngblood is now sixteen, and as predicted she has graduated to being a Pretty.  She has her chance to party and have fun, especially now she has the chance of getting into an exclusive clique called the Crims.  These Pretties like to play tricks, but while at a party, she gets a message from an old friend.  Although she is drawn to the leader of the Crims, she starts to question her shallow life in Pretty Town and wonders what she wants to do next

Following on a couple of months after the events in Uglies (also reviewed on Myshelf), this is another impressive piece of teenage writing from this talented author.  As in the first book, Tally gets to question the whole "pretty" scene, and readers get to think about the way the media today present extreme physical beauty and create instead a bland (and dangerous) uniformity.  To this is added an exploration of more teen issues, such as the love triangle between Tally, Zane and David, as well as the idea of cliques, the desirability of being fashionable and part of the "in crowd," and the price paid for all this.  Suitable for both sexes and packed full of thought-provoking issues presented in an easy-to-read way, it is obvious why this series has sold so many copies.