![]() ![]() I have to admit, I was so swept away with the great narrator of the audible version that it was only half way through the book that I realized it was rather stupid. The reader's voice and style were metallic and mechanical to my ears, a little grating and not a great choice for a dramatic narration in the voice of a teenaged girl. Visions, ghosts, telepathy, and apparently alchemy and magic all play parts in this world. At this point it doesn't seem like she's making many choices. ![]() Gwyneth, a 16-year old time traveler, somes some spirit and intelligence, but needs the assistance and is therefore apparently bound to an organization of a bunch of sinister old men, a few women, and her fellow time-traveller, an older boy. The time travel mystery seems overwrought so far. Imagine Pride and Prejudice ending with Jane's sickness. ![]() Imagine the Hunger Games ending before Katniss stepped in the arena or when she's in but only just begun. It's that nothing happens, there's no arc, just a slow build-up and then a prologue. It's not that it ends in a cliffhanger-it doesn't-or that it sets up a sequel too obviously. What other reviewers said is true Ruby Red is not a novel, just the beginning of one. ![]()
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