Storyline
So, in this freaky future world, everyone’s branded as “ugly” until they hit sixteen and get this wild, mandatory surgery that turns them into a “Pretty.” We’re talking total transformation—faces, bodies, the whole deal. Society’s obsessed with everyone looking the same, all shallow perfection on the surface, but totally hollow underneath. Tally Youngblood, just a regular kid counting the days to her own big transformation, starts to question if this “perfect” life is actually worth it. She stumbles into a crew of rebels who straight-up refuse the surgery and live on the fringes, ugly and proud. Suddenly, Tally’s thrown into a mess of secrets, betrayals, and government schemes. She has to choose—blend in as a Pretty and lose herself, or fight back and risk everything. The story digs into what beauty even means and how far people will go to fit in, twisting the classic coming-of-age drama into something way darker. Conformity? Yeah, it’s not all it’s cracked up to be.