Honey Baby Sweetheart

by Deb Caletti

In the summer of her junior year, sixteen-year-old Ruby McQueen and her mother, both nursing broken hearts, set out on a journey to reunite an elderly woman with her long-lost love and in the process learn many things about "the real ties that bind" people to one another.

• ISBN10: 0786273089
• ISBN13: 9780786273089
• Publish Date: 1 March 2005 (first published 4 May 2004)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 20 July 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Thorndike Press
• Edition: Large type / large print edition
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 387
• Language: English

Reviews

[layawaydragon]

Read for free on RivetedLit.com May 2019. Theme of the month road trips. I'd prefer AAPI or Autism for the awareness months, TBH. I wasn't going to read any of them, but The Last True Love Story was alright and well, the blurb got to me.

I figured I'd try it out and probably DNF. That's not what happened at all.

I'm a sucker for quiet girls/bad boy stories when done right. Because I was a quiet girl first noticed by a bad boy and sucked along for the ride. I really connected with Ruby, and in part her mother. This is a much better depiction than the vast majority of such pairings in YA.

Then came the Casserole Queens book club, and their quest. It was really fucking good. Besides a few bumps in the beginning of tired ass sayings like "oh the boys making fun of you will be fat and bald or gay" and describing a deer running away "like fleeing a domestic situation".

And the fucking awful Asian stereotype accent. Harold coming out as "herro". REALLY? REALLY?
Too bad, otherwise it would've been 4 stars.

“And he wears his money like a cologne. Frankly, I don’t like the smell.”

“Sometimes we are so convinced someone is throwing us a life preserver that we don’t notice that what they are actually doing I downing us.”

“Lillian is not an umbrella stand. Ask her. She understands everything perfectly.”

“A lady I will be, but a man’s accessory, his handbag, no thank you. I will not be someone’s ornament. I will not just be someone’s honey, baby, sweetheart.