Back Cover: Sixteen-year-old Gwen lives with her extended-and rather eccentric-family in an exclusive London neighborhood. In spite of her ancestors' peculiar history, she's had a relatively normal life so far. The time-traveling gene that runs like a secret thread through the female half of the family is supposed to have skipped over Gwen, so she hasn't been introduced to "the mysteries," and can spend her time hanging out with her best friend, Lesley, watching movies and talking about boys. It comes as an unwelcome surprise then when she starts taking sudden, uncontrolled leaps into the past.
She's totally unprepared for time travel, not to mention all that comes with it: fancy clothes, archaic manners, a mysterious secret society, and Gideon, her time-traveling counterpart. He's obnoxious, a know-it-all, and possibly the best-looking guy she's seen in any century.
Rating: 4.5/5
With time-travel and hot guys how could this book get any better? I thought this book was so great, but it didn't have me up all night reading it so I just couldn't give it a 5/5.
When Gwen suddenly gets sucked into this secret world of time-travelers that she's only heard about through whispered conversations she's eavesdropped on it's a big shock! She's known all her life that her cousin Charlotte is the one with the time-travelling gene, but once she finds out that was a lie and it's her that is now spiraling through time she's thrown for a loop! But with the hottie, that's also a little bit of a jerk with a sweet side, Gideon starts helping Gwen everything seems to get a little bit better. . . until everything goes wrong. Gwen has to question everything everyone has told her and will soon have to pick a side. The question is what side will she pick? And will Gideon follow her or will they be ripped apart?
This entire book I was on the edge of my chair waiting to figure out what happens next. With every conflicting opinion it just confused me even more, but in a good way. Gideon has been taught his entire life what's right but now it seems that might be wrong. The internal struggle with the characters is so captivating! Also, the main character Gwen is so easy to relate to that you can't help but love her. She's not some extreme martial artist or some secret spy for the CIA. She's a perfectly normal school girl who has a best friend she tells everything to and giggles about boys. She is the perfect representation of how anyone, even a seemingly perfectly average school girl, can do anything they put their mind to.
Over all this book was great and I can't wait to get the next one!
You can buy Ruby Red as a hardcover on Amazon.
-KayKay
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