Ruby Red

By: Kerstin Gier

           Gweneth Shepard's family has never been normal.  Her cousin Charlotte has been prepared through out her life to travel in time.  Now as Charlotte turns sixteen she is expected to make her first journey into the past.  Everything changes when Gweneth (not Charlotte) unexpectedly travels into the past in the middle of class.  As it turns out Gweneth's mother lied about her birth date, making her the one with the ability to travel in time.           

           

            Once this fact is revealed Gweneth is thrown into an entirely different world of secrets and magic.  She meets the only other time traveler, eighteen-year-old Gideon de Villiers.  She now is able to control where she travels in time, and must work to uncover the secrets that have been following her through this whole experience.

I really love this book.  The way it is written is just brilliant.  Most books I have read that involve time travel just go way too deep into the subject and the “laws” of time travel, which ends up just confusing me.  Also, the character development and pacing is just phenomenal.  The way you see the characters and their differences in the whole situation couldn’t be written better.          

This book brings up the big idea of time travel in today’s world.  Set in present day London it suggest that their might actually be people or technology that is able to travel in time.  I have always been fascinated by the thought of time travel and to hear other people’s ideas on the subject was just amazing.    

In short, this book is amazing and I would recommend it to anyone.  Although, be aware this book was originally written in German then translated into English so there are a few lines that don’t sound quite right but for the most part it is absolutely flawless.  I’ll give it an A+ any day.