Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier

Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I really enjoyed this book! I'm completely enthralled by the entire concept of time travel, and Kerstin Gier has opened up a new world filled with time travel adventures for me to explore! I had a hard time relating personally to Gwen, our main female lead, but I did envy her tolerance for jerks. Gwen puts up with so much shit from her family, it isn't even funny. If I were in her shoes I would have gone postal on the lot of them! So here goes a synopsis for you.
Gwen's cousin Charlotte is little miss perfect. She has perfect grades, perfect hair, perfect body, and she inherited the family's coveted time travel 'gene'. Charlotte has gotten the special treatment her entire life and special training from the secret society that caters to time travelers. So when the girls come of age and Charlotte has yet to travel back in time, tension mounts at the family home. Dizzy spells and headaches are sure signs that the first jump will happen soon, but it's not only Charlotte that seems to be getting these symptoms. When Gwen travels back in time instead of Charlotte, she is terrified and she doesn't know what to do or who she should tell. When Gwen comes clean to her mother she is initiated into the secret society in her cousins place. To say that there is some resentment in the family is an understatement. Enter Gideon, the handsome time traveler counterpart to Gwen, and things really start to heat up. Gwen discovers that there is a bit of animosity between her mother and the society concerning the last time traveling pair, Lucy and Paul and the theft of a sacred device known as the chronograph. As with any good secret society, the chronograph is all part of a prophecy that says when blood from all the time travelers is read into the chronograph, some big secret is revealed that can save all of man kind. I'm truly skeptical about this, and so is our Gwen. So even though they treat her as if she is a traitor herself, she doesn't take their word for gospel on anything. Of course, there is also a little romance woven into all this adventure, and a cool extra gift for our Gwen! I would definitely recommend this book for all young adults who crave a new adventure!



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