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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