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This one was really good! I was looking for something a bit different in YA and saw a description of this - time traveling to Victorian London and it caught my eye. The cover is better on some of the other versions, this one is a little boring to me but the book is very cute and the characters are engaging. Long story short - an average 16 yr old girl who likes gossip, clothes, boys and hanging out with friends is part of an extraordinary family, one who can travel in time. Gwen has known all he
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I really enjoyed Ruby Red (which is an Addicted to YA January 2014 Book of the Month). For current young adult fiction, it seems to feel different. This could be because it was originally written in German. Regardless, it lacks that sweaty, gritty sheen of many American YA reads and feels almost...wholesome? If one can be wholesome while running swords through people...
Time-travel, ghosts, period costumes, and lots of Googling...with British accents translated from German, woo!
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Time-travel, ghosts, period costumes, and lots of Googling...with British accents translated from German, woo!
The plot moves qu ...more
This was such a dang fun book! It didn't learn any life lessons from it, but it sure was a fun teeny bopper novel. Gwyneth lives in a family that carries a gene that allows for time travel. During the last sixteen years her cousin has been believed to be the carrier of this gene, but is disppontedly mistaken when Gwyneth disappears on her way to the corner shop to by her crazy great-aunt sherbet-lemons. With time travel to the 18th century full of fencing, beautiful apparel, damsels in distress,
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Loved this book! Can't wait for the rest of the series to be translated.
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Mar 06, 2011
Lauren⁷ 💜
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Jun 01, 2011
Desa
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romance,
sci-fi-fantasy,
adventure,
series,
read-in-2011,
time-travel,
cover-lust
Aug 08, 2011
Lisa
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Sep 11, 2012
Selena Calingo
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Jan 28, 2013
Aelin Lovelace
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really liked it
Shelves:
young-adult,
4-stars,
ya-urban-fantasy,
ya-fantasy,
fantasy,
magicians-etc,
time-travel,
prophecies,
telepathy,
2013-books
Aug 08, 2014
Melanie
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Sep 29, 2014
Laura
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Oct 16, 2014
Kim
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Dec 16, 2014
Eden Steffey
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Jan 08, 2015
Kara
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Mar 14, 2015
Aerika
marked it as on-my-radar
Feb 11, 2017
Denise
marked it as a-book-dump
Feb 27, 2018
Sara
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Apr 10, 2018
Jeane
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Aug 05, 2018
Suzi
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Apr 28, 2020
Rachel
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