Honey, Baby, Sweetheart by Deb Caletti5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ruby’s looking for someone to give her attention and make her feel special–even if that person isn’t doing it in the right away. She knows that her family loves her, but all the same, I think she feels a little neglected by her mom. It’s frustrating at times, but because of my past experiences, I feel like I understand why she makes the decisions she does. We know they’re bad, she knows they’re bad, but we have to watch her make them anyway. In this book, we see Ruby make a series of bad decisions. In hindsight, I can definitely see that I should’ve broken the friendship off much sooner than I did, but at the time it was kind of exciting. In my case, it was just a friend in high school who wasn’t that great for me. I felt like I could really relate to this book. She knows Travis is bad for her, but she can’t seem to make herself stay away. As Ruby gets in deeper with Travis, she starts to pull away from her family and others who love her. Travis brings out a side of her that Ruby doesn’t recognize and isn’t 100% sure that she likes. He’s rich, timelessly beautiful, and he has a motorcycle. Ruby McQueen never thought that a guy like Travis Becker would notice her. ![]()
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I liked the imaginative way the author used elements of the story to talk about spiritual warfare. Written by New York Times Best-Selling author Priscilla Shirer, The Prince Warriors series was created for middle-grade readers and will include the fiction trilogy as well as Unseen: The 365 Prince Warriors Devotional and the Unseen app. There they meet their guide, Ruwach, who offers wisdom and direction as the kids’ initial adventure begins-an adventure filled with armor and danger and a very real enemy. Xavier, Evan, and their friends have typical lives until they enter a mysterious land called Ahoratos. Based on Ephesians 6:10–18, The Prince Warriors is the first book in Priscilla Shirer’s epic new series that brings to life the invisible struggle ensuing in the spiritual realm. But now they’re discovering that there is a much bigger battle going on all around them. Published on ApAmazon | Barnes & Noble | GoodreadsĪs brothers, Xavier and Evan are used to battling each other. 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