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3.74 AVERAGE
3.74 AVERAGE
Good quick read....I read it in about 20-30 minutes one night after work....wasn't all that happy with the ending...it needed more....kinda left me hanging
With a title like this, how could you not read it? The format is like free-form poetry, interspersed with some emails and letters. Ruby's voice is perfect and captures all kinds of emotions. This was a very quick and good read for me. My only complaint is that ending happens so fast, but I liked the direction it went in.
Written in blank verse, the story still feels whole and is colorful and clear. The character development lacks a little, but you know the important ones well. Ruby is whiney, but she should be. She's likeable and funny. You feel both her hurt and healing as she navigates her tragedies. You even end up liking Whip and kind of hating her mom...
While reading this book I wasn't thrilled until the end. The ending I thought wrapped it up nicely and brought the book to a wonderful end. I really enjoyed it and would recommend it to anyone looking for a quick and easy read.
This books spoke very loudly. Sones is a very gifted writer.
This is my first book that I have read by Sonya Sones. I'm a fan of novels in verse so I'm glad that I found another author that I like that is similar to Lisa Schroeder.
I thought the story with what happened with Ruby (mom dying, going to live with her actor father) was something I would have watched in a movie. I loved the ending, it was kind of a surprise and I sort of saw it coming. I can say the only reason why I didn't give it 5 stars was because Ruby was kind of whiny through the story especially with his boyfriend who was still living in Boston.
I can't wait to book talk this today!
I thought the story with what happened with Ruby (mom dying, going to live with her actor father) was something I would have watched in a movie. I loved the ending, it was kind of a surprise and I sort of saw it coming. I can say the only reason why I didn't give it 5 stars was because Ruby was kind of whiny through the story especially with his boyfriend who was still living in Boston.
I can't wait to book talk this today!
Ruby Milliken's mother just died and now she has to move across the country to live with her scum-bag moviestar father, Whip, who divorced her mother before she was even born. Ugh, what a hideous way to start a book. One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies is a novel written in verse by Sonya Sones. Ruby's poems and emails tell the story of what happens when she has to leave her aunt, best friend and boyfriend behind and move across the country to live with her father in his giant Hollywood mansion. She finds it difficult to fit in with the students of the L.A. school because they're used to having celebrities for parents. She's not used to it at all. She also finds it difficult to live in her father's shadow and to get used to his trainers and personal assistants and chefs and even him being around all the time, since he abandoned her and all....
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I first read this when I was 12. I needed a palate cleanser ok?
After reading this book, you will want to rush to the library to get your hands on every novel-in-verse you can find, even if you didn’t used to like poetry.
But of course, you will be let down, because no other novel-in-verse can really compare to this one.
Reading the title, I had expected something depressingly deep and serious. However, Sonya Sones’ third novel-in-verse is surprisingly snarky and fun, all the while managing to be poignantly real. 15-year-old Ruby’s mother has just died, and she’s going all the way across the country to L.A. to live with her Oscar-winning actor father, Whip Logan, who abandoned her and her mother before she was even born. Needless to say, Ruby is excited not a whit, especially as this move takes her away from her boyfriend Roy, her best friend Lizzie, and her mother’s grave.
At Whip’s extensive mansion, Ruby determinedly avoids Whip’s bonding advances, instead favoring his personal assistant, Max, who has a big heart. She also has trouble adjusting to her very “unique” school, especially her Dream Interpretation class, because her head is almost always wrapped up in missing Roy, Lizzie, and her mom. Perhaps, though, a shocking severance from her East Coast life will wake her to new possibilities in her new home.
Ruby is funny, emotional, and someone you definitely want to be friends with. I highly recommend this book.
But of course, you will be let down, because no other novel-in-verse can really compare to this one.
Reading the title, I had expected something depressingly deep and serious. However, Sonya Sones’ third novel-in-verse is surprisingly snarky and fun, all the while managing to be poignantly real. 15-year-old Ruby’s mother has just died, and she’s going all the way across the country to L.A. to live with her Oscar-winning actor father, Whip Logan, who abandoned her and her mother before she was even born. Needless to say, Ruby is excited not a whit, especially as this move takes her away from her boyfriend Roy, her best friend Lizzie, and her mother’s grave.
At Whip’s extensive mansion, Ruby determinedly avoids Whip’s bonding advances, instead favoring his personal assistant, Max, who has a big heart. She also has trouble adjusting to her very “unique” school, especially her Dream Interpretation class, because her head is almost always wrapped up in missing Roy, Lizzie, and her mom. Perhaps, though, a shocking severance from her East Coast life will wake her to new possibilities in her new home.
Ruby is funny, emotional, and someone you definitely want to be friends with. I highly recommend this book.