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A review by jstroem
Rubinrot. Liebe geht durch alle Zeiten by Kerstin Gier
5.0
"I haven't liked the YA that I've read as of late, so I probably just don't like the genre anymore" I said.
Cute.
For some reason I have this lame idea that I can only read books in German when they were WRITTEN in German. Since it's my third language I often feel like it makes no sense for me to read a translated fiction in German when I can read it in English or in my mother tongue, and because of that I've never read a YA in German because "there is no German YA" (I'm stupid)(also take a shot every time I say "German").
BUT NOW THIS. I loved Rubinrot so much? Like, loved in a way I didn't think I could love YA anymore-loved. Gwen is amazing, Gideon is annoying and the side characters are the opposite of flat. This book is so obviously a first book in a planned trilogy and to be honest there was a lot of information and not that much action, but I loved to learn about the "magic" (is this magical realism? sci-fi? what are genres) and not even the "we-live-in-london-and-have-english-sounding-names-and-i-call-my-mother-mum-even-though-the-book-is-ORIGINALLY-written-in-german-and-it-sounds-forced-and-stupid", which I normally DETEST, could stop me from loving this book. Now I just have to find someone who can sell the other two books cheap to me because I am officially addicted.
Cute.
For some reason I have this lame idea that I can only read books in German when they were WRITTEN in German. Since it's my third language I often feel like it makes no sense for me to read a translated fiction in German when I can read it in English or in my mother tongue, and because of that I've never read a YA in German because "there is no German YA" (I'm stupid)(also take a shot every time I say "German").
BUT NOW THIS. I loved Rubinrot so much? Like, loved in a way I didn't think I could love YA anymore-loved. Gwen is amazing, Gideon is annoying and the side characters are the opposite of flat. This book is so obviously a first book in a planned trilogy and to be honest there was a lot of information and not that much action, but I loved to learn about the "magic" (is this magical realism? sci-fi? what are genres) and not even the "we-live-in-london-and-have-english-sounding-names-and-i-call-my-mother-mum-even-though-the-book-is-ORIGINALLY-written-in-german-and-it-sounds-forced-and-stupid", which I normally DETEST, could stop me from loving this book. Now I just have to find someone who can sell the other two books cheap to me because I am officially addicted.