Pretty, Jillian Lauren
Pretty, Jillian Lauren
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Pretty

Author: Jillian Lauren

Narrator: Julia Whelan

Unabridged: 7 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/30/2011


Synopsis

An electrifying debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Some Girls Jillian Laurens breathtakingly honest memoir, Some Girls, earned both critical praise and outstanding sales. In Pretty, Lauren delivers on her promise as a natural storyteller (Los Angeles Weekly) with a powerful novel about a broken girl looking to be saved. Bebe Baker is an exeverything: exstripper, exChristian, exdrug addict, expretty girl. Its been one year since the car accident that killed her boyfriend left her scarred and shaken. Flanked by an eccentric posse of friends, she is serving out a selfimposed sentence at a halfway house while trying to finish cosmetology school. Amid the rampant diagnoses, overmedication, compulsive eating, and acrylic nails of Los Angeles, Bebe looks for something to believe in before somethingher past, the dangerously magnetic men in her life, her own bad choicesknocks her off course again.

About Jillian Lauren

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by ❤︎ ⸆⸉ Chelsea. on October 04, 2011

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

Goodreads review by Eye-shuh on May 30, 2012

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

Goodreads review by Quincy on July 31, 2019

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

Goodreads review by Emily on February 07, 2020

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

Goodreads review by Stephanie on January 30, 2020

*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