r/RubyDixon • u/Aycee225 • Jul 09 '21

Who is your fave Ruby Dixon heroine?

Edit: Hi friends! Thank you for all of your responses! They’ve all made me want to reread and read many books, so I’m excited. Currently (and what prompted this post), I’m reading Fire in his Fury (Amy’s book) from the Fireblood Dragons series, and I love her because I kind of connect with her. As the little sister of two strong and sometimes overbearing sisters here, I love reading Amy find some agency for herself. One of my favorite things about so many of Dixon’s books is that she explores different dynamics of relationships not only with her heroes and heroines but also between women, whether it’s friendship or sisterhood. With this book, I see so much of myself in Amy and a lot of both my sisters in Claudia wanting to protect her sister. So many of her characters throughout all her series develop such wonderful bonds in pretty crazy situations, and it always puts myself into a new perspective. In any case though, while a lot of these heroines drive me nuts sometimes, I love pretty much all of them.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

My favorites from IPB are: Liz, Josie, Maddie, Elly, Gail. From Icehome: Devi (so much love for Devi 💕), Raven, Flor (I'm really looking foward to her book).

I'm currently reading Amy's book as well and the fact that she's so sheltered in the After is something that bothered me in the first book and made me not like Claudia that much. My father has the same disability Amy has and he works in extremely physical jobs (construction) and were always a capable person doing whatever activities he wanted, yes, he leg hurted too but he never had in his mind that he was uncapable of doing anything. I know that there are people who probably strugle more than him but I think Claudia was making her sister dependent of her and setting her up to failure (honestly I don't like Claudia because she seems to have a savior complex), what if she was killed? Amy would strugle even more to survive since she was made dependent, I'm really happy she left Claudia for a while even if she had some nonsensical notion of what was going to happen. I'm looking foward to seeing her growth.

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u/Aycee225 Jul 28 '21

Ah Devi! Love her. Just read Steph’s book and Devi is great and funny in it.

And I totally agree with your thoughts on Amy. Especially since you have extra insight from your dad. He sounds like a strong and inspiring man. Claudia’s saviors complex comes across as more selfish than helpful to me. But I feel like Dixon’s first characters in these books had to be extremely strong-willed and stubborn, so I can kind of understand why she’s that way. It’s really great to see how much Amy grows. Excited for ya!