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Rudá jako rubín
Author: Kerstin Gier
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Sixteen-year-old Gwendolyn discovers that her family’s secrets are more than stories told by adults. An unexpected journey into the past turns her into someone whose life is shaped by the ability to travel through time. Rudá jako rubín combines a teenage perspective with a family mystery and a developing romance. Kerstin Gier uses the contrast between everyday life and historical settings to create both humor and suspense. At its heart is Gwendolyn’s effort to understand a situation she never felt prepared for.
For Gwendolyn, family has always meant incomplete explanations. When she finds herself on a familiar street almost a hundred years before her own birth, she must distinguish an impossible experience from a new reality. The ability that opens up the past also leaves less room for ordinary teenage choices.
Gideon and her relationship with him connect the time-travel plot with emotional uncertainty. The question is not simply when they meet, but what each knows about the other and whom they can trust. Family ties are no automatic guarantee of safety or understanding.
The novel introduces its heroine to an unfamiliar world gradually. The information she gains is part of the reader’s discovery, so this description does not reveal hidden identities or explain the larger plan. Humor and a personal perspective offer a counterweight to the dangers of traveling through time.
Sixteen-year-old Gwendolyn discovers that her family’s secrets are more than stories told by adults. An unexpected journey into the past turns her into someone whose life is shaped by the ability to travel through time. Rudá jako rubín combines a teenage perspective with a family mystery and a developing romance. Kerstin Gier uses the contrast between everyday life and historical settings to create both humor and suspense. At its heart is Gwendolyn’s effort to understand a situation she never felt prepared for.
Book information
- Author
- Kerstin Gierová, Kerstin Gier
- Publisher
- Albatros Media a.s.
- Imprint
- Cooboo
- Formát
- E-book
- Language
- Czech
- Genre
- young adult, fantasy, romantika, cestování časem
- ISBN
- 978-80-744-7089-9
- Publication date
- 1. January 2016
- Pages
- 336
- E-book formats
- EPUB (ISBN 978-80-744-7348-7) · PDF (ISBN 978-80-744-7347-0) · MOBI (ISBN 978-80-744-7349-4)
What is Rudá jako rubín about?
For Gwendolyn, family has always meant incomplete explanations. When she finds herself on a familiar street almost a hundred years before her own birth, she must distinguish an impossible experience from a new reality. The ability that opens up the past also leaves less room for ordinary teenage choices.
Gideon and her relationship with him connect the time-travel plot with emotional uncertainty. The question is not simply when they meet, but what each knows about the other and whom they can trust. Family ties are no automatic guarantee of safety or understanding.
The novel introduces its heroine to an unfamiliar world gradually. The information she gains is part of the reader’s discovery, so this description does not reveal hidden identities or explain the larger plan. Humor and a personal perspective offer a counterweight to the dangers of traveling through time.
Themes and motifs
Growing up and an unexpected role
The heroine must act in a situation she did not choose.
Family secrets
Her immediate surroundings conceal information that changes the meaning of everyday life.
Romance and trust
Attraction meets uncertainty about what another person knows and intends.
Setting
Present-day London and different periods of its past, to which Gwendolyn unexpectedly travels thanks to an inherited time-travel gene.
Main characters
Gwendolyn
A sixteen-year-old girl whose life is disrupted by unexpected journeys into the past.
Gideon
A figure closely connected to both Gwendolyn’s time-travel adventure and her romantic story.
Who is this book for?
For readers of romantic fantasy, family mysteries, and time-travel stories with a teenage heroine.
Book context
Rubinrot is the first volume of Kerstin Gier’s German trilogy Liebe geht durch alle Zeiten, also known as the Edelstein-Trilogie and published in Czech as Drahokamy. The German original appeared in 2009, matching the supplier’s first-publication date. This Czech edition has 336 pages and ISBN 978-80-744-7089-9. The catalog identifies a newer Czech e-book, product ID 33890, with the same title, author, and verified original title Rubinrot, making it another edition of the same work. The first novel was adapted into the 2013 film Rubinrot.
Séria a poradie
- Drahokamy – tento titul je 1. diel
Adaptations
Rubinrot
Otázky o knihe
What is Rudá jako rubín about?
Sixteen-year-old Gwendolyn discovers that her family’s secrets are more than stories told by adults.
What language is this edition in?
This edition is in Czech.
Which e-book formats are available?
EPUB, PDF, MOBI.
Is Rudá jako rubín a standalone short story?
No. It is a novel featuring Gwendolyn and Gideon, whose time-travel adventure continues in later books.
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