Pretty Review, Pretty Giveaway...Woo!

I was recently given the opportunity to review the book "Pretty" by Jillian Lauren.
Here's what "Pretty" is all about:

Bebe Baker is an ex-everything: ex-stripper, ex-Christian, ex-drug addict, ex-pretty girl.

It’s 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 self-imposed sentence at a halfway house, while trying to finish cosmetology school. 

Amid the rampant diagnoses, over-medication, compulsive eating, and acrylic nails of Los Angeles, Bebe looks for something to believe in before something–her past, the dangerously magnetic men in her life, her own bad choices–knocks her off course again.

For me, "Pretty" is not so pretty.  It's a gritty story that has you right in the middle of the drama pretty much from page one.  It's an easy read but not easy enough that you don't stop thinking of Bebe when you put the book down.  This is one novel that keeps your interests and doesn't wane from the topic. 

Jillian Lauren paints a grim picture of life in halfway.   All the characters in the book are so vibrant that you could easily pick them out in a crowd if you had to, or heck a line up with some of these characters.

So if you want a novel that you can become immersed in yet read with easy flow, this is the one for you.

Good news my faithful peeps, I have been given a book to giveaway (Holla!) 

So you can enter the giveaway and/or purchase one over at Amazon.

What's nice about buying the book is that the first 250 people who order "Pretty" & email the receipt to pretty.the.book@gmail.com will receive a Limited Edition run of the "Pretty" neckllace, made by Fairy Tale Jewels.com.

Pretty, no?

Ok, onto the giveaway.

Mandatory Entry:

1.  You must follow me via twitter: mkw70 and tweet: Check out @jillylauren's new book, Pretty & enter to @win a copy @mkw70 #PRETTYBOOK.  Make sure to leave a comment letting me know you follow me on twitter & a link to the tweet.

Addition Entries (all worth one entry unless otherwise stated).

1.  Use the Facebook button below & link to the post in you status.  Leave me a comment with the link to it.

2.  Follow my blog ~~~> Over there!

3.  You can tweet the message above once a day until the end of the contest.

That's it, my peeps.

Get to gettin because this contest ends 9/13 at 8pm est.

Ciao!

*Disclaimer: I was given this book to review and have been entered into a giveaway for a gift card.  All opinions are 100% my own.