EMERALD GREEN // KERSTIN GIER

In this beautiful and shocking conclusion to the most beloved Ruby Red Trilogy, Kerstin Gier waste no time fitting all the pieces together in this wonderfully written book. The order of The Ruby Red Trilogy (also known as The Precious Gems Series) starts off with the first book, Ruby Red. Where our main character Gwen, discovers she has the ability to time travel. Next, follows Sapphire Blue, which is on of my favorites in the series. These two books all add up to the conclusion of the final book, Emerald Green. Though if you are looking for a fast past novel that seems impossible to put down, then these books are just right for you.

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When reading Emerald Green, I fully enjoyed myself, but I felt it lacked much needed details. The book is written in a style where by the last fifty pages I had no idea how this all was going to be wrapped up to a satisfying conclusion. What I found the author doing was that, the characters would think back on a situation while another one was occurring. For example, when Gwyneth is visiting the Count Saint-German, she is thinking back to a meeting she had with Lucy and Paul that were not able to read about. This is what was a shame about it because, I would of loved to read about how Gwen told Lucy and Paul, that she knows their her parents. Or how they set up a plain to cheat out the Count in order to save Gwyneth. For we hear about this plan but never really know how it plays out. It was as if Kerstin Gier had a limit to as many pages she was allowed to write.
I felt their were some loose ends in this book. For instance, we never really find out whether or not Gideon can actually read minds. Unless that was a decoy to throw us off.
Though enough ranting about the parts I disagreed with and lets start talking about the good. First off, some of the events that occurred in the other two books without any explanation, it all makes sense in Emerald Green. We begin to find out members of the Lodge have their own doubts behind the truth in which the Count plans to use the secret that is unlocked once all the gems are powered. At first I was confused on the whole immortality theory, or how the count could still be alive. Its expressed many times that for immortality to be reached Gwen has to die. Though in the final pages of the book I understood it. The Count had lost his immortality when Gwen was born and the only way to retrieve it back was to kill her. Which we find out later is impossible.
Gideon in this book kind of reminded me of William Herondale. After reading those papers he discovers Gwen needs to die in order for the secret to work. Though it states that she dies out of love, so its assumed that Gwyneth saves Gideon at the cost of her own life. Gideon then knows he has to do everything he can in order for Gwen to hate him.
Gideon's character was the most frustrating character in this book. Though once we found out why he was so cold it was easy to fall in love with him. Once we see the real Gideon, a huge wall is knocked down and he is easier to understand.
Its also a coincidence that Cynthia has a part where the theme is green and, the cover of the book just happens to be green.
Though in the end I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I feel their could of been more books written in the series but, for now I have to deal with that their will only be three. Over all I rate this book a 4/5 stars and still highly recommend this book to anyone searching for a sense of adventure and mystery.

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