SYNOPSIS
Gwyneth Shepherd’s sophisticated, beautiful cousin Charlotte has been prepared her entire life for traveling through time. But unexpectedly, it is Gwyneth, who in the middle of class takes a sudden spin to a different era!
Gwyneth must now unearth the mystery of why her mother would lie about her birth date to ward off suspicion about her ability, brush up on her history, and work with Gideon–the time traveler from a similarly gifted family that passes the gene through its male line, and whose presence becomes, in time, less insufferable and more essential. Together, Gwyneth and Gideon journey through time to discover who, in the 18th century and in contemporary London, they can trust.
MY THOUGHTS
First of all, oh my goodness. If you haven’t read this book, you totally should.
Ruby Red (or Rubinrot) is originally a German Novel that is soon translated into English. I haven’t read the original one so I don’t know if the translation is good or accurate but I’m pretty sure it is because I really enjoyed this novel a lot.
I’m gonna summarize this book in three words:
Time Travel. London. 18th Century.
If you also love time travel stories like me, definitely try reading this book.
I got hooked in within the first few pages of this book, but I started losing interest as I go. I thought this will end up in my “dnf” pile but then the excitement suddenly rushed in! This book suddenly engulfed me. And that ending! Oh my. I feel so wounded after reading it. I FEEL SO ATTACKED. The story will continue in the second book, I know, BUT STILL.
It’s a fun, mysterious, and quick read. In the books that I’ve read the past few months I really didn’t feel the romance between the characters. But the romance in this book got me out of my “shipping” slump.
A NEW SHIP HAS RISEN EVERYBODY!
A really slow start but I loved it nevertheless!
MY RATING — 4/5 STARS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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.
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