Ruby Red (Precious Stone Trilogy, #1) in Crazy Challenge Connection

May 31, 2016 Cecily Black rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I wasn't expecting to like this but I can't wait to find out what happens next!!

I usually don't like anything really historical and in ways this book reminded me of The Girl From Everywhere by Heidi Heilig but mostly just with the time travel and a female lead.
I really enjoyed the other aspects of this book like the fact that they are on a mission and the focus is more on that which makes the historical stuff bearable for me... I usually find it quite boring or repetitive but this one has ca ...more

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Jul 07, 2015 Olivermagnus rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2022, fantasy, time-travel, zoct-2022

Originally published in Germany in 2009, Ruby Red is the first in a trilogy about a rather odd family whose lineage includes several time travelers. The story centers on Gwyneth, whose cousin Charlotte is the expected final traveler in the family and has been trained almost from birth to assume the role. Unfortunately for Charlotte, Gwyneth’s mother somehow managed to keep the actual date of her birth a secret, which means that Gwyneth is in reality the true time traveler. Unprepared, Gwyneth fi ...more

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Sep 04, 2015 ❤ Aly ❤ rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2015

I really enjoyed Ruby Red and the idea of time traveling. I still have a couple of questions that I hope are answered in the next book. It was interesting and unique. I truly liked this book very much. I could give it five stars, however, there are parts that can be better.

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Nov 18, 2016 Carissa Brown rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, young-adult, romance

Gwyneth Shepherd is living a normal teenage life...if your family comes from a line of time travelers and you can see/speak to ghost and gargoyles. However this has never effected Gwyneth everyone knows that her cousin Charlotte is the next in line to inherit this gift so it doesn't really effect her life too much. That is until she gets dizzy and a stomach cramp sends her spiraling into the past.

So Gwyneth replaces Charlotte in the middle of the secret society that she knows nothing about. She ...more

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Jul 24, 2015 Chaitra rated it did not like it

Shelves: romance, fantasy, young-adult, too-stupid-to-live, first-of-a-series

My second attempt getting back to YA fantasy (the other being Graceling). Oh how I missed Katsa. I'm not going to believe teenage girls are this idiotic, I hope they're not. Gwyneth Shepherd is introduced to us as an unlikely time traveler, but I wasn't expecting her to be this terrible, even when she's actually being the "ruby". Her best friend, the one who's only there for information dump, looks like she'd do a better job. Gwyneth is only bothered about what the idiot thinks of her (I've legi ...more

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