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Rubinrot (Edelstein-Trilogie, #1)

Kerstin Gier,

Sascha Icks (Sprecher)

Start date: March 8, 2015

Finish date: March 31, 2015

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Sep 14, 2013 Kat rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: udate, ya, fantasy

Although I've seen Ruby Red mentioned several times on other blogs, I'd honestly never really thought about reading it. Until, that is, I found out it is about TIME TRAVEL. These are flashbulb words for me - the combination of modern and historical settings means that I get a little of all the things I love in one book - what more could I want?

The very first thing that struck me about Ruby Red was Gwen - I loved her right from the beginning, and she is a perfect combination of brave, curious and Although I've seen Ruby Red mentioned several times on other blogs, I'd honestly never really thought about reading it. Until, that is, I found out it is about TIME TRAVEL. These are flashbulb words for me - the combination of modern and historical settings means that I get a little of all the things I love in one book - what more could I want?

The very first thing that struck me about Ruby Red was Gwen - I loved her right from the beginning, and she is a perfect combination of brave, curious and funny. She has her own distinct personality, has very specific ideas and speaks her mind when she should, without being overbearing. There is a lot of internal dialogue with herself which I really liked - it made it a lot of fun getting to know her better.

Ruby Red is a fast read - there's a lot going on, and an intriguing back story, however what I really wanted more of is what attracted me to it in the first place - time travel. Understandably Gier builds up to the initial time travel moment, but at times in between I felt that the plot slowed a little, and more was put into building the back story than actually moving forward with the plot. All of this is actually very contradictory to what I usually enjoy in a book - world building is usually top of my list, but the lure of time travel seemed to overpower a lot of my interest in the world building itself.

The back story, however, is important to the plot, and I did find it rather intriguing when I wasn't hanging out desperately for more time travel, and I think Gier showed a lot of thought and imagination in creating it.
I did have trouble remembering the cast of characters as it's quite substantial, and many of them are introduced by other characters talking about them rather than appearing in their own right in the first instance, and this contributed to my confusion. If only I had known there is a character list at the end of the book - at the front I would have found it when I needed it!

But I had a lot of fun reading this book - I found it incredibly engaging, fun and as I said earlier, I absolutely adored Gwen. Although I didn't feel I got to know Gideon well enough in this book, I can see that there is a lot of potential for them to develop an interesting romance later on in the series.

A fun read, with a great female lead character, I really enjoyed Ruby Red, and I'm curious to see where the series goes next. ...more

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Jan 20, 2013 Elizabeth Qualia rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: at-library

Time travel-Yay! I don't know why this book was so enjoyable to me. I do like time travel, I do like mystery, I do like romance. I really liked Gwenyth, she's kind of a kooky character, but I like how she rolls with the punches. She is a little dimmer than I'd like though, and she seemed much younger than 17 to me. This book did take a long time to set up the story arc for the trilogy, I was half-way through before things really started happening, but since it is only the first of 3, and my libr ...more

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Mar 13, 2018 Janeka rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, bookcrossing, young-adult, time-travel

I'm also not a huge fan of time-travel/sci-fi, mas this book was quite a fun read!
It only felt too rushed, almost like only an introduction to the next in series... ...more

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Oct 23, 2012 Carly Svamvour rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: carly-s-fantasy-reading-challenge, my-50-books

A delightful little tale about human nature - firstly, set against a theme of time travel.

# 1 of a trilogy? Well, well ... I'll just have to see about # 2, won't I.

(how do I fall into this business of following serial YA books? I wish there'd been books like that in my mid-teens)
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