Real Live Boyfriends (Don't Get Excited, Now...It's a Book Review!)

So really I'm writing this from the future! It's a post that was supposed to be up on Thursday, but since blogger was down. Well, I'm just writing it for now and saying I wrote it on Thursday. And that does count...what with it being not my fault and all.

So remember how I wasn't swallowing books whole? Well, I guess I lied a little bit. Because I finally got the last book in the Ruby Oliver series by E. Lockhart. And you know how I feel about E. Lockhart. Sigh. The series is now over. A little sad it about it ending, but I must say it was a delight to read! Thanks, E. Lockhart. Thank you very much for writing such marvelous stories and characters.

Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, Plural. If My Life Weren't Complicated, I Wouldn't Be Ruby Oliver by E. Lockhart

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I'm a little sad to see this all come to an end, really. I like Ruby. Lots and lots. She's so funny and quirky and self-absorbed, but not in a malicious way. More in a trying to figure her life out sort of way. Besides, she's seventeen. And that, my friends, is just the way seventeen is, isn't it? I am right. I have been seventeen.

What I really liked about Ruby this go round is that she isn't "stealing" boyfriends...which I don't think she was doing before...but at least now she can settle on just a few boys and not a plethora of boys. And other girls don't have to be so mean to her anymore.

She isn't having panic attacks but instead simply deals with her multiplicity of crises. So she's growing up. A little.

She can stand up for herself. Sometimes it isn't very graceful or mature. Sometimes she just yells at people. But at least she's not choking back her angst. Which is soooooo not healthy. Maybe she still has so growing up to do, what with the angry shouting and all, but she's seventeen. So.

She recognizes that two people can have opposing but valid ways of viewing a situation, so maybe both people should be sorry and both people should try to be a better friend/boyfriend/girlfriend.

She sees the good qualities in people that almost everyone else overlooks. Like Hutch...that even with his awkwardness, he is smart and nice and can be relied on. Like Meghan...that she isn't just a pretty bimbo but a person who knows how to be a real friend.

And finally, she sees that Kim and Cricket are mean girls. And mean girls just suck. And it has nothing to do with you personally when these types of girls single you out for mistreatment. Because they are mean and that is what mean people do. Be mean and suck.

So E. Lockhart...I look forward to whatever comes next! Be that what it may - I'm pretty sure I'll enjoy it!



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