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Ruby by V.C. Andrews
3.0
As with other VC Andrews novels, Ruby contains beautiful prose, a captivating story, and some serious WTF moments, including but not limited to incest, an attempted arranged teen marriage, voodoo, and a drive through the Storytown sex shops (mind you, the timeline of this book is the early 1960s). But what else would you expect from a VC Andrews book? Haha.
I didn’t like Ruby as a narrator or main character, and I think that’s mainly why I didn’t click with the novel. I found her to be fairly one-dimensional; sweet, innocent, and way too trusting. Yes, she came to New Orleans naïve to the lifestyle and the people, but it seemed that every chapter, someone had pulled a fast one on Ruby. Yet she consistently kept trusting Giselle, her friends, and Daphne. I just think that at some point, she should have grown a spine, for lack of a better term.
I didn’t like Ruby as a narrator or main character, and I think that’s mainly why I didn’t click with the novel. I found her to be fairly one-dimensional; sweet, innocent, and way too trusting. Yes, she came to New Orleans naïve to the lifestyle and the people, but it seemed that every chapter, someone had pulled a fast one on Ruby. Yet she consistently kept trusting Giselle, her friends, and Daphne. I just think that at some point, she should have grown a spine, for lack of a better term.