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Ruby Red (Precious Stone Trilogy, #1)

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Anthea Bell (Translator)

Start date: December 2, 2014

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Jun 13, 2024 Tien rated it liked it

Shelves: read-on-kobo, young-adult, time-travel

3 stars for time travel (which I love) and easy reading. The novel went quite fast actually though at the end, I was confounded that nothing really has happened. Or rather, a lot has happened but nothing truly revealed (at least no surprising twist) and I just feel... empty.

The protagonist, Gwyneth Shepherd, is apparently your average girl except that she sees things others do not (eg ghosts etc). And then, surprise surprise she had inherited to time travel gene. And while she's ordinarily likea ...more

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May 17, 2012 Chris rated it liked it

Shelves: united-kingdom, fiction, youth, time-travel, series, middle-grades, young-adult

The book did not live up to the stellar reviews I read, although it definitely got better toward the end--enough that I'll be on the lookout for book two when it comes out in the fall. 16-year-old Gwyneth Spepherd has been raised in a very unusual family. Some members of the family are able to time travel. The next time traveler is expected to be Gwyneth's cousin, Charlotte. Charlotte has been been receiving top-secret training since infancy all in preparation for her journeys through time. Imag ...more

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Nov 17, 2013 Beth rated it liked it

I thought it was good. I wanted to throttle the main character but I had to remember she was just a teenager and fixated on boys. After that reminder several times throughout the book I did find the story to be adventuresome and a fast read. A good diversion for a rainy night. Plus I stayed up late to finish it. That says something.

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May 06, 2013 Morgan rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, young-adult, sci-fi, paranormal, historical-fiction, ghosts, audiobook

Time travel and costumes and intrigue and mystery and ghosts and...

Okay, I might have enjoyed this a little much at times on the surface.

There were a few minor issues (like how long it took for it to occur to Gwen that *maybe* her family got things wrong with who had the gene. Especially since she had all the symptoms.) but nothing that really detracted from my enjoyment of the story.

The narrator did a good job setting the tone and with voices and things.

It even got me a few times with, "Wait.. ...more

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