Killing Ruby Rose – Jessie Humphries

Every month, Amazon offers its Prime customers a free Kindle ebook, which is how I ended up the owner of this lovely title.  Killing Ruby Rose tells the tale of Ruby Rose, a precocious high school student who, following the death of her father, is forced to kill criminals that her DA mother has, for one reason or another, let slip through the justice system.  She needs to figure out who is setting her up while trying to keep her friends safe and find out the secret her mother is keeping from her.  If it sounds a bit convoluted, that’s because it is.

There’s a decent enough story buried in here somewhere, but it gets overwhelmed by badness that drags things down.  For example, Ruby worries that she’s about to be arrested for the “murders” she’s committed, despite them not being murders and her being legally in the clear.  Once the other characters start calling her out on her illogical approach, you have to wonder why the author continued to hammer home the wrong point.

I obviously have no intention to continue on with the Ruby Rose series.  Hopefully, for those that do, the author learns to tighten up her game.