
In order to help Shay, Tally returns to the city to become pretty so that she can test Maddy’s experimental pill, which will cure Tally’s lesions.Their first EP, Projection Series was released on the label Detroit Underground to iTunes in 2015 and received positive reviews. Though Tally and David are successful, Tally knows that it’s her fault that David’s father, Az, dies, and that Shay becomes pretty against her will. The Specials destroy the Smoke and capture most of the Smokies, and Tally, overcome with guilt, feels as though the only way to atone for her treachery is to rescue everyone with David’s help. Cable, which (unbeknownst to Tally) alerts Special Circumstances. When David’s mother, Maddy (a former surgeon), tells Tally that pretties develop brain lesions that change the way they think, Tally destroys the tracking device from Dr. Here, she develops a crush on an ugly named David, something she didn’t think was possible. While she grew up believing that humans shouldn’t exist in nature, she feels competent in the natural world. In the Smoke, Tally learns many things that challenge how she thinks about the world. Cable, or she won’t be able to follow through on her promise to stick with him and become pretty. Though Tally wants to honor Shay’s choice, she also feels like she has to remain loyal to Peris-and so must help Dr. Cable blackmails Tally into helping her track down the Smoke by withholding her pretty surgery. Tally doesn’t receive her operation on her birthday, as a Special named Dr. But Tally’s desire to be pretty is so strong that she refuses to accompany Shay when Shay decides to run away to a civilization in the wilderness called the Smoke.

Despite this, Tally loves Shay and all the things that Shay shows her, including how to hoverboard in nature. Tally fully believes that it’s impossible for ugly people to be attractive and successful, so she thinks this is nonsense. Though Shay teaches Tally to hoverboard, which Tally loves, Shay also doesn’t want to receive pretty surgery.

Without her friend Peris, who’s already pretty, Tally has no one to hang out with-but one night, after Tally sneaks out to visit Peris, she meets Shay, who has the same birthday. Tally is a 15-year-old ugly who looks forward to her birthday, at which point she (like all 16-year-olds in her society) will receive an operation that makes her pretty.
