Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() And there’s a boy time-traveler from another family, Gideon, who was probably in love with Charlotte and resents the fact that Gwen has replaced her. She also becomes embroiled in the family machinations, which involve a secret order of time travelers and a strange machine called the chronograph that helps control the time traveling and needs the blood of the travelers to work. ![]() ![]() Without warning, she’s thrust into the world of time travel, and she has to learn how to behave in the past without giving herself away. While Charlotte has been trained her whole life on how to survive in the past, Gwen has received no training. ![]() Charlotte is at the age where the ability is supposed to manifest itself, and she’s got the trademark dizzy spells that indicate imminent travel.īut, surprisingly, it’s Gwen who travels one day. It’s her cousin Charlotte who is the special one – she’s inherited the family gene that allows her to travel backward in time. In Ruby Red, the translation into English of the German novel by Kerstin Gier, we meet Gwyneth Shepherd, who is nothing special. So you can see why this book would appeal. I spent a long time wondering if I would rather solve the mystery of Stonehenge or see what America would be like in the year 2500. When I was a teen, I had bookmarked several sites that speculated on the possibility of time travel, and whether we’d eventually be able to travel forward and backward in time, or maybe just forward OR backward. I have what may be an unhealthy obsession with time travel. ![]()
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