I also wonder if things are missing in the translation that would make the words have more weight to them. I always find translations interesting because it makes me wonder how much is changed to make sense in a different language. This book was originally written in German, and translated into English. When Gwen is the one who travels back in time, she is incredibly unprepared, and her life is changed as she is thrust into a mysterious secret society where no one trusts her, and she is forced to risk her life travelling through time. Gwen on the other hand has lived a normal life. It had been predicted that the last time traveller would be Gwen’s cousin Charlotte, meaning Charlotte has had a life of training to prepare for time travel. The female line in her family has a rare time travelling gene that appears randomly throughout the line. Ruby Red follows Gwen, a 16-year-old girl who lives in London with her rather strange family. Ruby Red is a book I would recommend immensely! It was beautifully written, and it had fun and snarky characters, and it had an interesting and exciting plot that had me manically reading long into the early hours of the morning. Ruby Red was one of my favourite reads of 2014. Author: Kerstin Gier (Translated by Anthea Bell)
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