All in all, an excellent book a little adventure, a little fantasy, a little humour, a little romance, and all well written. I can't claim personal experience there, but it does convey the differences from present-day London (the fashions, the smells, the traffic)(coach traffic is different from car traffic).
I like the way Gier / Bell have captured the flavour of being a teenager, and of being in London.Of course, being a time travelling story, it covers London in different time periods. But it is Gwynneth who unexpectedly time travels and who turns out to be the last prophesied gene carrier, and now she is thrust unprepared into the 'mysteries' that her mother was hoping to protect her from.'I still enjoyed the story on this re-read, though of course without being quite so much on tenter hooks. Charlotte has been trained all her life in the 'mysteries' and now she is the right age, the family is anticipating her first jump. she has always been overshadowed by her perfect cousin Charlotte (not to be confused with her sister Caroline), who has inherited a time travelling gene. (I also went out and bought the Graceling trilogy after borrowing the first one from the library.) :0)The story is told from the point of view of Gwynneth.
I seem to be a sucker for LT recommended YA trilogies coloured (individually) red, blue and green and written by authors named a variant of Kirstin. In fact, I enjoyed it so much, I think I may buy the whole series. This is what I wrote:'I really enjoyed this story, possibly because it was reminiscent of the books I used to read as a teenager, with its very English flavour (though the original was written in German and translated into English by Anthea Bell (sister of BBC's Martin Bell)). I realised I hadn't finished my review last time to post it. Fantasy, YA) (Re-read)I re-read this before I continue on with Sapphire Blue, the next in the series.
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