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3.74 AVERAGE
3.74 AVERAGE
This is a reread.
I can't even articulate why I love this book so much. It didn't make me cry, but I was literally on the verge of tears for the entire book, from about page three until the end. Ruby is such a realistic teenager. It reminds me a lot of The Princess Diaries in terms of voice and even plot, only I feel like this holds up for adults. There's a realness and down to earth-ness that makes this charming and utteraly heart wrenching. It's so small in scale that it's hard not to be touched because it feels real. Like a real girl whose mother has just died and has to go meet her father for the first time, and I just utterly adore it.
It's written in verse almost like diary entries, so this book isn't for everyone. You need to be able to enjoy realistic teen angst, although I do think this book is more self aware than something like The Princess Diaries. It's happy and sad and funny and real, and I just love it so much.
I can't even articulate why I love this book so much. It didn't make me cry, but I was literally on the verge of tears for the entire book, from about page three until the end. Ruby is such a realistic teenager. It reminds me a lot of The Princess Diaries in terms of voice and even plot, only I feel like this holds up for adults. There's a realness and down to earth-ness that makes this charming and utteraly heart wrenching. It's so small in scale that it's hard not to be touched because it feels real. Like a real girl whose mother has just died and has to go meet her father for the first time, and I just utterly adore it.
It's written in verse almost like diary entries, so this book isn't for everyone. You need to be able to enjoy realistic teen angst, although I do think this book is more self aware than something like The Princess Diaries. It's happy and sad and funny and real, and I just love it so much.
I went into One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies by Sonya Sones biasedly because I’ve read and liked other novels by Sonya Sones before. As far as novels-in-verse go, her books are short, sweet, to the point, and surprisingly thorough in their low page numbers. One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies is no exception. It was a wonderful book.
One of the first things I noticed when I started this novel was how sarcastic and witty the main character, Ruby, was. Sarcastic characters always walk a fine line between funny and annoying. As a reader, I loved Ruby’s brand of sarcasm. The girl had just lost her mom and her home, so it was easy to forgive her even when she did say something annoying. Not to say she annoyed me. She didn’t… but I can see how people in the story might have been irritated at the least. She was your typical difficult teenager going through some tough times. I feel like her character development didn’t really go anywhere until almost the end of the book, which is a bummer because I would have liked to read a little bit more about things looking up. Oh, well. It was worth it anyway.
One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies was a very character-driven novel with an interesting story to tell. The story, in fact, had the opportunity to be very dark, but with Ruby’s sense of humor and some other interesting characters everything balanced out and made this novel a wonderful blend of light and heavy. There’s a lot of misunderstandings, a lot of coming to terms with things, and a bit of snark. This book is short, so I would definitely read it again and recommend it to everyone else. In a nutshell: short, sweet, and totally worth the time.
One of the first things I noticed when I started this novel was how sarcastic and witty the main character, Ruby, was. Sarcastic characters always walk a fine line between funny and annoying. As a reader, I loved Ruby’s brand of sarcasm. The girl had just lost her mom and her home, so it was easy to forgive her even when she did say something annoying. Not to say she annoyed me. She didn’t… but I can see how people in the story might have been irritated at the least. She was your typical difficult teenager going through some tough times. I feel like her character development didn’t really go anywhere until almost the end of the book, which is a bummer because I would have liked to read a little bit more about things looking up. Oh, well. It was worth it anyway.
One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies was a very character-driven novel with an interesting story to tell. The story, in fact, had the opportunity to be very dark, but with Ruby’s sense of humor and some other interesting characters everything balanced out and made this novel a wonderful blend of light and heavy. There’s a lot of misunderstandings, a lot of coming to terms with things, and a bit of snark. This book is short, so I would definitely read it again and recommend it to everyone else. In a nutshell: short, sweet, and totally worth the time.
GREAT!
Quick read (like finish it in an afternoon kind of quick) and so relatable /believable, despite some sfantasy like elements - dad is a movie star!
Quick read (like finish it in an afternoon kind of quick) and so relatable /believable, despite some sfantasy like elements - dad is a movie star!
I first discovered Sonya Sones' books as a teen and was delighted to see this at a library. First published in 2004 (!!), One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies is definitely very old-school and took me back to a nostalgic time when I devoured YA. I don't think they write books like this anymore; everything has to be diverse and politically correct and discuss ~important~ issues nowadays. Sometimes, a lighthearted teen read is what we all need.
This is a cute book for teens or preteens. It is a quick read. It took me about two hours to read the whole thing. It is about a fifteen year old girl whose mother dies. She is sent to LA to live with her very famous movie star father, whom she has never met.
This is my favorite book by Sonya Sones. It's just a really great book. I recommend it to everyone
This book will quickly date itself with all the pop culture references, but Im pretty sure teen girls will love it anyway!
I had really wanted to like this book and the actual plot line of it was not bad (a little trope-ish in the teenage-girl-lifestyle part, but that is something I can overlook). However, the poetry aspect of it was not cohesive enough in and of itself. Rather, it seemed like a regular novella was broken into parts with line breaks and new titles at random in order to make it look like poetry. A few of the "poems" at the end could stand on their own as individual pieces, but overall they needed the piece before and after to add meaning and understanding. I liked the idea of what was happening, but I don't think it lived up to its potential.