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Dear Ms. Block and Ms. Staton,
As the Dear Author discussion of the definition of paranormal romance was taking place, I picked up your book, Ruby. Although published as mainstream fiction, Ruby contains strong paranormal and romantic elements. I wouldn’t quite classify it as paranormal romance, but I think it could appeal to those readers of the paranormal romance genre who would enjoy something with gritty, literary and whimsical touches.
Much of Ruby is narrated by the title character, a Midwestern young woman with a painful past and unusual abilities. There are also sections in third person which describe visions Ruby has, first of a boy and later of a man. The book begins with one of these visions, of a funeral for the boy’s father where the boy sees his widowed mother smiling at a man.
In the next section, Ruby tells of her family: herself, her mother, her sister Opal and their abusive, violent father. Ruby is only three years old when she decides to escape someday. Her father recognizes that he hasn’t subdued her soul and is enraged by …
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