Sunday, January 12, 2014

One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies

By: Sonya Sones

Sonya Sones has also written other books like "What MyMother Doesn't Know" or "what my girlfriend doesn't know". All of them are teen-fiction and are written in first-person view. Of course they all have a problem's but some are similar too. All of those books have friendship, family, relationship, and emotional issues. Then all the books have characters around the same age.

The theme in “One of those hideous books where the mother dies” is death. Death is even in the title. If ruby’s mother would have never died, she wouldn’t have moved away from her best friend, her boyfriend, her aunt-Duffy, and her mother. Then she wouldn’t have to move in with her father that is all the way on the other side of America. Then another death at the end, surprisingly changes a lot. Even though it doesn’t really affect them personally.

Ruby moves away from everything she loves and cares about in Boston like her best-friend (Lizzy), boyfriend (Ray), Aunt (Duffy), house, and mother. To move in with her movie star dad, Whip Logon that she never knew. She hates being there because she hates him and she hates the reminder of everything she left behind in Boston. She keeps people back home in touch though through E-mail, even her mother. She goes to a new school and she’s not quite that popular there but her “sister” there is Colette and her crush Wyatt. She barely has any friends in what she likes to call “Hell A”. She’s closest to one of her dad’s workers. His name is Max. She finds betrayal with people that she least expects it from and it throws her back a long ways but she manages to pick herself back up by the end with learning something about her father that will change her life.


I would personally recommend this book to others. Especially, teenage girls because the books Sonya Sones writes are books that girls around that age can relate to. I really can’t put the book down myself and I’m one of those people that don’t like to read and has to find the perfect book to even want to. Seriously, I only like a few authors. This book has humor, drama and loss. Then it’s not too inappropriate so parents should approve this too. I would give it five stars anytime.


Book Review by Hope F.

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