It also has the issue of being quite a slow paced and drawn out book, where I never really felt like much really happens. I'm surprised they weren't constantly mentioning tea as well, you know, 'cause us British people are just all obsessed with tea! Other than to mention Selfridge's five to a million times. The author seemed to be trying too hard to make them sound British that they never ended up sounding very British at all. It doesn't seem real or authentic, it just kept reminding me of that scene in forgetting Sarah Marshal. The characters are supposed to live in London but they talk as you would expect someone who wasn't from England might expect a Londoner to talk, but it doesn't work. The dialogue didn't flow, it felt very forced instead of feeling natural.
They were all quite dull and boring, and seemed so similar that I found it really hard to differentiate one from the other. The characters all seem to talk and act the same, none of them really had a personality and I therefore couldn't connect to them. Part of me believes a lot was lost in translation here, but maybe it just isn't a well written book in general. My main issue was the characters, none of them felt unique or that they had any real personality. I finished it and had absolutely no desire to continue. But, personally, this wasn't a good book and nor was it a very good start to a series. This is a book that's translated from the original German, so maybe some things just got lost in translation. It all felt very one dimensional, like there wasn't much to anything at all. I ended up being highly surprised by what I got, and not in a good way.Įverything about Ruby Red fell really flat for me, from the general story, to the setting, to the characters.
I think it's because it has such a high average rating on Goodreads, is praised a lot around the blogosphere and it's also been recommended to me quite a lot. I don't know why I had such high expectations when I started Ruby Red, but I did. He's obnoxious, a know-it-all, and possibly the best-looking guy she's seen in any centrury. 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. It comes as an unwelcome surprise when she starts taking sudden, uncontrolled leaps into the past. 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, Lesly. In spite of her ancestors' peculiar history, she's had a relatively normal life so far.
Sixteen-year-old Gwen lives with her extended - and rather eccentric - family in an exclusive London neighborhood.
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