Book Review: One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies (Sonya Sones)

by Abby H.

This book is the tale of a girl named Ruby who is forced to move to Los Angeles when her single mother dies. She moves to L.A. because that is where her father lives and he is an Oscar-winning actor whom she has never met in her life. She must deal with parting from her best friend and her boyfriend and try to fit in with the sophisticated and very different lives of teenagers going to high school in L.A. She is forced to live with her father, a man she utterly hates, who never even attempted to come and visit her for the duration of her fifteen years. In this book, Ruby must make do with the new life that she has been given and at the same time cope with the death of her mother. I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed this book and that reading it will really show you that the problems you have are far less than some of the things that other have to deal with, people in every day life who have to go through what Ruby went through in this book.