Blood Sugar

By: Sascha Rothchild

“I learned that guilt is like food poisoning. If you don’t feel a pang of sickness and a sour dread fill your core within twenty-four hours, you are safe.”

Ruby is a murderer. But she is also a therapist, a widow, a sister, and a friend. The book starts out with Ruby in an interrogation room being questioned about her husband’s death. The book then proceeds to tell us ALL about her past, not leaving out a SINGLE detail – even if it had nothing to do with the plot or push the plot forward, until we learn what really happened.

I’ve seen this book described as being told in alternative chapters of the then and the now, but honestly, sometimes at the end of the then chapters, it becomes now! It was so messy. Ruby is also really annoying. The book felt like it was just a Ruby monologue, and she portrays herself to be perfect and above everyone else. For instance, she gets all As at Yale, without even studying.

The detective investigating Jason’s death would have been taken off the case immediately for wasting police resources if this was real life. On top of that, what we come to find out is that Ruby is not smart that she couldn’t have figured out why she was being questioned in the first place!

To say this book was boring would be an understatement. There was literally nothing redeeming about this book. The author droned on and on about pointless things in Ruby’s past.

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