{Review} Ruby Red (The Ruby Red Trilogy #1) by #KerstinGier @MacKidsBooks

Title: Ruby Red  
Author: Kerstin Gier 
Series: The Ruby Red Trilogy   
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date: May 22, 2012  
Pages: 324 
Format: Print 
Source: Purchased

Description:

Although I had never seen him before, I recognized him immediately. I'd have known his voice anywhere. This was the guy I'd seen on my last journey back in time.

Or more precisely, the one who'd kissed my doppelganger while I was hiding behind the curtain in disbelief.

Sixteen-year-old Gwen lives with her extended - and rather eccentric - family in an exclusive London neighborhood. In spite of her ancestors' peculiar history, she's had a relatively normal life so far. The time-traveling gene that runs like a secret thread through the female half of the family is supposed to have skipped over Gwen, so she hasn't been introduced to "the mysteries," and can spend her time hanging out with her best friend, Lesly. It comes as an unwelcome surprise when she starts taking sudden, uncontrolled leaps into the past.

She's totally unprepared for time travel, not to mention all that comes with it: fancy clothes, archaic manners, a mysterious secret society, and Gideon, her time-traveling counterpart. He's obnoxious, a know-it-all, and possibly the best-looking guy she's seen in any century . . . 

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Biography

Kerstin Gier started writing women's novels in 1995 when she found herself with a fresh teaching diploma in hand but without steady work. She is best known in the United States for her Ruby Red Trilogy, and her first book, Männer und andere Katastrophen (Men and Other Disasters), was recently made into a movie starring actress and singer Heike Makatsch. Her subsequent books have enjoyed great popularity in Germany as well. Her novel Das unmoralische Sonderangebot (The Immoral Deal) won the 2005 Best German-Language Romance Novel Prize from the Association of German-Language Romance Writers (DeLiA).

Kerstin Gier, born in 1966, now works full-time as a freelance writer in a village near Bergisch Gladbach, Germany, where she lives with her husband, son, two cats, and three chickens.

Photograph © Olivier Favre

This one folks I own!!!!!!

Ok now that the noise has dived down. I can do my review!

Ok so this one is a time travel book which it was very good.  I only had two issues with this one.  One being that the book is set in London and some of the wording is weird but I got used to it.  The second one is that this book is written like a series. Which is not a bad thing. But it does tick me off just a bit as with those kinds of books little tends to happen.  And well that is deff. the case here with Ruby Red.  Now saying that, this book is still a solid 4 stars and is so worth the read! I have requested the 2nd and 3rd books via the library and can not wait to finish this trilogy.

Gwen is such a great strong willed character.  I loved her and Gideon after he stopped being a jerk.  I do think that they should have spent more time with their story in this one as it felt rushed.   But, my fav character was Gwen's friend Lesley!  I would love a story about her!!

The plot was so great!  I really couldn't put this one down. However, I think that the author could have spent more time on the story vs. talking about all the things around them.  We really don't need two paragraphs describing the surroundings.

The pacing was wonderful as well other than that describing crap.  It is not a very slow book.  It picks up very fast.  It does fell like you were dropped into this story in full force.  But don't worry you won't get lost.

Note: I have found out that this book was a translation.  I didn't know that going in.  That is just fine but the person who translated it needed to go back through and fix simple mistakes.  It would have made the book read soother.

"*I received a copy of this book for free to review, this in no way influenced my review, all opinions are 100% honest and my own."

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Posted in: 4 Stars, Macmillan, Review, Young Adult