Student Review: Ruby Red

Review by: Carrie L.

Author: Kerstin Gier

Number of Pages: 324 pages

10-word summary: Gwenyth Sheperd unexpectedly discovered she has a time traveling ability.

Rating: 1 star

Review: The book honestly wasn’t the best to begin with, and the fact that there was so much romance worsened the book. I knew at the cover that the book wouldn’t be my favorite, the romantic sentence “She wasn’t expecting to travel through time, or to lose her heart.” had seemed a little cheesy and more of a romance novel than a fantasy one. I didn’t put it down because I have read decent and a few enjoyable romance novels, as long as they have a life and don’t spend so much of their time thinking about love. The blurb had already given too much information about the story, if she could time travel, whether she would later date her love interest. Maybe I would’ve enjoyed the book more if it had been less centered on romance. On important missions, she wasn’t so much focused on staying alive than observing Gideon, her lover. "Kissing, said Lesley, ought really to be taught as a school subject” (pg. 97) this raised eyebrows, but I kept on reading. “We often discussed what the ideal kiss would be like, and there were any number of films we'd watched over and over again just because of the good kissing scenes in them" (pg. 97) At this it just became too much, and it took a while for me to finish the book. However at the end it ever so slightly improved, which raised the reviews from a one star to a two.

Favorite quotation: "Kissing, said Lesley, ought really to be taught as a school subject, preferably instead of religious studies, which nobody needed." (pg. 97)