

Pretty
Author: Jillian Lauren
Narrator: Julia Whelan
Unabridged: 7 hr 49 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 08/30/2011
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Jillian Lauren
Narrator: Julia Whelan
Unabridged: 7 hr 49 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 08/30/2011
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Jillian Lauren is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Some Girls and the novel Pretty. Jillian holds an MFA in creative writing from Antioch University, and her writing has appeared in the Paris Review, the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and other publications. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their son.
I read this because 'Some girls' wasn't what I expected and I wanted to give Jillian Lauren a second chance - I won't be reading anything else she writes. This book is about Bebe (Beth) & her delusional life in a half-way house, beauty school and sobriety while she dates a psycho. So fucking stupid.......more
Eh...it was OK. It was interesting. There is a lot of unnecessary repetitiveness that makes me think that either the author mistakenly thought that would be good to add to the experience of the book basically being the main character's train of thought or she just isn't that great of an author yet a......more
I think to enjoy this book you have to be patient, appreciate quirkiness, and also relate to having been in a rut in your life where you look around and ask yourself, “is this it?!” Favorite moment of the book that had me LOLing: “You know I like you, Beth, but you have committed some very serious i......more
Really, I think I would rate this more of a 3.5. This book was different. I actually really liked the writing, I think Jillian Lauren is a really great writer, but I don't know that the subject intrigued me as much as I thought it would. Parts of it were a little less interesting a little harder to......more
*Loud sigh* 🤦🏼♀️ I honestly don't even know where to start. It's not that the writing was horrible because it wasn't, I think this just isn't my type of novel. Recovering drug addicts in half way houses working their way through cosmetology school dating people who literally think they are Jesus ju......more