I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. 
 I found it very hard to rate PRETTY DANCER with an amount of stars. I loved the story; it sucked me in quickly and I found myself thinking about it a lot even when I wasn't reading it. It's my kind of story - some romance, some suspense, some friendship and family added in, nice character development throughout the book - and I have a thing for heroes (or heroines) with a passion, such as Lilly has for dancing. The dancing itself is described wonderfully, too; I have danced for quite a few years myself and I loved reading about it. It was written so lively that I could almost see it. In that respect, it's definitely worth four or five stars. 
 Actually, the main thing that bothered me was the amount of errors and typing mistakes. The writing style is wonderful, but those errors - such as someone going "week" in the knees, someone saying his "peace", and mixing up past and present tenses - distracted me a little. On top of that (it's not a huge deal, but I'm going to mention it because it's one of my pet peeves), there was the occasional mixing up of words such as "their", "there", and "they're"; or "your" and "you're": 
 "...if Luke catches you anywhere near me your dead..." 
 "There alike in so many ways it's creepy." 
 Maybe I'm nitpicking - and the story is definitely interesting and well-written enough to compensate for the errors - but the fact that I kept noticing those errors so often did make me reconsider my final rating. I eventually went with four stars because I caught myself still thinking about the story a few days later, meaning it certainly left an impression. 
 Back to the positive now, because there is a lot of good to be said about this story. It's one of those books that I could hardly put away (I was up quite late a few times because I wanted to know what would happen next) and the plot itself never caused me to lose interest. It's nicely paced and has that flow that I very much like in a book. 
 The characters are all interesting and well-developed. There were some twists in character that I did not see coming. Lilly is a believable main character - a girl who has been through a lot and is still trying to deal with it all. She's easy to relate to; she makes bad decisions and wrong assumptions and she has flaws, which makes her seem more real. I'm also glad the author made her and Luke eighteen years old - there are already too many sixteen-year-old book heroines running about acting way older than their age. Lilly and her friends behaved just as eighteen- and nineteen-year-old normally would. 
 Lilly's brother Luke is a kind, yet tough, and overprotective older brother. Their relationship is sweet and realistic; a brother and sister who have only had each other for a long time. Andrea is the perfect best friend - one of those friends anyone would wish for - and Carter, too, is a realistic and likable character, his actions understandable even though they sometimes frustrate the reader (and Lilly) to no end. 
 The fact that there are many things hinted at, but not revealed until later into the story, keeps up the suspense. There is a constant, slumbering anxiety about possible bad things happening and yet once they do happen, they take you by surprise, either because of the timing or because the bad thing happening was not at all what you expected to happen (at least, it was that way for me). 
 I am very glad that Cora Graham took me on the journey that is PRETTY DANCER. Language and grammar errors aside, this is a great book that I think deserves more reads; so if you happen to be in need of something to read, go and check out this book. As long as you have the slightest bit of hopeless romantic in you (or an awful lot of it, like myself), you won't regret it.