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Chargement... Killing Ruby Rosepar Jessie Humphries
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Not really sure why I read it to the end, Coming off with the intention of Veronica Mars but the execution of The Babysitters Club, Killing Ruby Rose is best left to the actual Y part of YA. Oddly violent for a book so unsophisticated. ( ) I enjoyed the first half of this story but I felt the second half dragged. To be honest, I don't think it's the book itself, I think it's me. I've been reading [author:Bernard Lee DeLeo|1413682]'s Nick McCarty series and this just seemed really tame and frustrating in comparison. Like why couldn't the mum just tell her? The whole thing just seemed really convoluted and I think I just wasn't in the right frame of mind. That said this wasn't bad. Writing was decent. Characters were most interesting. Romance was average. Ruby was cool and her importance of footwear was funny. Liam was okay. I would've liked to see more of his family. It's a solid three stars and in the right frame of mind probably would be a solid four. But the timing just wasn't right. I bought this because it was by a "local author". I didn't know anything about her. This copy is also autographed - it says "Be Killer! Jessie Humphries". I thought that was a pretty good inscription. But that's where "pretty good" ends and "dreadful" begins. Ruby Rose is a high school student who fancies herself the new Nancy Drew, with killer shoes. She takes pride in hunting down bad guys wearing inappropriate footwear. She spends a lot of time telling us what shoes she is wearing and how she treats them, in fact. Ruby gets used, in a weird way. She gets a text, supposedly from a child molester, that tells her where to find him. She goes there and ends up killing him. It doesn't seem to occur to her that she has been set up until the second time something similar happens. Then she gets frantic because she knows people will not understand that she is really a good person. The book is short on detail and long on bad writing. Too cute and amateurish. For debut author Humphries, I thought killing Ruby Rose was a great book. I could not put it down. Ruby is a 17 year old trying to make valedictorian even after the mysterious death of her father. With an ambitious D.A. Mother seeking reelection, Ruby is left to pour her energy into finding evidence to put away the five worst criminals in L.A. The mystery begins with Ruby killing the first criminal on her list. And she begins to realize she's being set-up. The twists and turns kept me on my toes. And I felt like I was just as unsure of who to trust as Ruby was. Definitely a great mystery for teens. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieRuby Rose (1)
In sunny Southern California, seventeen-year-old Ruby Rose is known for her killer looks and her killer SAT scores. But ever since her dad, an LAPD SWAT sergeant, died, she's also got a few killer secrets. To cope, Ruby has been trying to stay focused on school (the top spot in her class is on the line) and spending time with friends (her Jimmy Choos and Manolo Blahniks are nothing if not loyal). But after six months of therapy and pathetic parenting by her mom, the District Attorney, Ruby decides to pick up where her dad left off and starts going after the bad guys herself. When Ruby ends up killing a murderer to save his intended victim, she discovers that she's gone from being the huntress to the hunted. There's a sick mastermind at play, and he has Ruby in his sights. Ruby must discover who's using her to implement twisted justice before she ends up swapping Valentino red for prison orange. With a gun named Smith, a talent for martial arts, and a boyfriend with eyes to die for, Ruby is ready to face the worst. And if a girl's forced to kill, won't the guilt sit more easily in a pair of Prada peep-toe pumps? "With a fierce and witty heroine, this dark and twisty mystery is everything I love in a book. Killing Ruby Rose is an all-around thrilling debut that kept me riveted from beginning to end " --Megan Miranda, author of Fracture, Hysteria, and Vengeance Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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