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Ruby

Cynthia Bond

Start date: February 10, 2015

Finish date: March 30, 2015

Why we're reading this: From Oprah: RUBY by Cynthia Bond-Ruby, had such a profound impact on me I just had to share it with you. …more
[close] From Oprah: RUBY by Cynthia Bond-Ruby, had such a profound impact on me I just had to share it with you. Though there were times I questioned how you all would receive it.
I've never read anything like it. At times I found it difficult to turn the page yet couldn't put it down. I wanted to be done with it, yet didn't want it to end.
It is in a word, relentless. This is Cynthia Bond's first novel. Prepare to be enthralled.

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Feb 01, 2016 Ciana rated it it was amazing

This is without a doubt the best book I have read in a long time. The prose is reminiscent of Toni Morrison, and immediately puts me in the mind of Sula. While my electronic copy was riddled with Oprah's mindless quotes, not even the "big O" could distract from the hauntingly real and disturbingly graphic passages Bond penned. Conjuring, human trafficking, small town southern life, and love are the main topics discussed in Bond's debut novel, which is part one of a trilogy. I'm sure we will be s ...more

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Feb 10, 2015 VerJean rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Don't. Bother.
It begins so seductively lyrically descriptive. But it's too far-fetched when it comes to ghosts and demon possession and what seems to be the depravity and ugliness of humanity - for stretching to see just how ugly it can be.
I think there is are good characters, good descriptions and a good message as the backbone of this novel. However, for me, it just went a bit too far into the do-do-do-do land of nastiness to keep that backbone in sight.
Although I enjoy challenging, dark ficti ...more

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