Book Review RUBI RAMOS'S RECIPE FOR SUCCESS Jessica Parra

Thank you to the author Jessica Parra, publishers Wednesday Books, and Goodreads Giveaways, for an advance paperback copy of RUBI RAMOS'S RECIPE FOR SUCCESS. Thank you also to Libby for a digital copy. All views are mine.



Three (or more) things I loved:

1. I like the multicultural aspect! I loved reading about the Cuban desserts, and reading the French I didn't at all understand lol it was fabulous! This brought more dimension to all elements of the story.

2. I appreciate the indelible marks Rubi's family make upon her and how much their emotions influence her decisions. Her fear of harming them emotionally drives much of the story, which unfortunately isn't a plot type I'm interested in. But in this case, the intercharacter dynamics are powerful.

Three (or less) things I didn't love:

This section isn't only for criticisms. It's merely for items that I felt something for other than "love" or some interpretation thereof.

1. This is not a very original concept. Girl narrowly misses getting accepted into the college of her choice, so she writes off college, her and her family's culture and wishes, and decidedes to be an entrepreneur or open a small business. Often, these characters are, and is this time, involved in some sort of culinary craft.

2. Rubi, the main character, hears about a baking competition and fecides to compete. Instead of starting small and working her way up, as one does,  she just walks onto the set of a televised baking contest, unproven, without even realizing being on TV is what she's signed up for, somehow. This classically fortuitous blunder is so far from a believable storyline, and I just could not enjoy the book because of it.

Rating: 🎂🎂 / 5 grandma's cakes
Recommend? Not really, try ANDER AND SANTI WERE HERE 
Finished: Oct 1 23
Format: Audiobook, Libby; Paperback, Goodreads giveaways 
Read this book if you like:
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 family stories, family drama
👭🏽 teenage girl friendships 
💇‍♀️ young woman’s coming of age 
🥐 baking
📉 entrepreneurship / small business 
🗣 politics

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