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Title: Esmeralda (Smaragdgrün–Emerald Green) Series: Precious Stone Trilogy #3 Author: Kerstin Gier Genre: Fiction, YA, time-travel, romance, fantasy Pages: 490 Published: Montena Format: Hardback Time to read it: 4 days Language: Spanish Rating: 5/5 “Emerald Green” is the last book in the precious stone trilogy written by Kerstin Gier. The trilogy follows Gwendolyn Sheperd a sixteen year old girl who has a very special gene which allows her to travel back in time. Gideon is starting to believe more in Paul and Lucy since he got some cards from them in which it is explained that to the “big secret” of the chronograph to work Gwendolyn should die. However, their relationship is not in the best place since count of Saint Germain got in the middle of it. Emerald Green was a fantastic ending. Everything comes together in this book, every single detail, every cryptic prophecy were thought in order to arrive to a really interesting ending. I think of all

“Saphirbleu” is the title of the movie adaptation from the book Sapphire Blue, the second book in the Precious Stone trilogy. The movie was released in 2014, and even though it hasn’t been yet translated to English it is available in German with English subtitles. The last one in the trilogy is supposed to be released in 2016. Gwendolyn and Gideon have been getting close, really close. Gwendolyn thinks she can trust him and he thought the same until he saw her in the past hugging Paul, Gwendolyn’s cousin boyfriend who stole the other chronograph. This allows Charlotte to get closer to Gideon making things ever harder for Gwendolyn. On the other hand, Gwendolyn has been meeting with her grandfather in the past and together they are trying to discover where the other chronograph is in the present and , in addition to that, why Lucy and Paul steal it. The movie was actually an entertaining and fun movie, which I enjoyed a lot. It really transmitted the mysterious feeli

Title: Zafiro (Saphirblau –Sapphire Blue) Series: Precious Stone Trilogy #2 Author: Kerstin Gier Genre: Fiction, YA, time-travel, romance, fantasy Pages: 368 Published: Montena Format: Hardback Time to read it: 3 days Language: Spanish Rating: 4.5/5 “Sapphire Blue” is the second book in the Precious Stone Trilogy written by Kerstin Gier. The series follows Gwendolyn a girl with a special gene that allows her to travel back in time. Gwendolyn cannot believe she is with Gideon, not Charlotte, she is the chosen one. However, relationships between time travelers do not work as well as she might like. There are secrets she still does not understand, not forgetting about the count Saint Germain. What seems clear is that she has an important part to play in the prophecy and she is determined to find what it is. For doing so she knows who, for sure, she can trust, her best friend Leslie, the young version of her grandfather Lucas, as well as her new daimon friend,

“Rubinrot” is the title of the movie adaptation from the book Ruby Red, which was released in 2013.   The movie has been translated to different languages including English as well as Spanish. The sequel was released in 2014, and the last in the series is expected to be released in 2016. As the book the movie follows Gwendolyn Shepperd, a regular 16-year-old girl who is tired of her family secrets. She will discover them all the moment she discover she carries a rare gene which allows her to travel back in time. Everyone was expecting her cousin to inherit the gene; however, she was the lucky one. She will have to face the order of the count of St. Germain, who have the mission to complete the chronograph, an instrument which allow the travelers to choose the date to which they will travel. The movie was actually an entertaining and fun movie, which I enjoyed a lot. It really transmitted the mysterious feeling of the books, giving it a fun tone, which I enjoyed. I think one

Title: Rubí (Rubinroth-Ruby Red) Series: Precious Stone Trilogy #1 Author: Kerstin Gier Genre: Fiction, YA, time-travel, romance, fantasy Pages: 358 Published: Montena Format: Hardback Time to read it: 3 days Language: Spanish Rating: 5/5 “Ruby Red” is the first book in the Ruby Red trilogy written by Kerstin Gier. This series follows Gwendolyn Shepperd as her world changes completely when she finds out she is the carrier of a strange gene which allow the carrier to travel back in time. Gwendolyn has known her whole life her family was quite peculiar, in her family there was a gene that allowed its carrier to travel back in time. The chosen one to carry this gene was her cousin Charlotte. Her cousin has been preparing her whole life for her sixteenth birthday, in which the gene should manifest. However it is Gwendolyn the one who, without expecting it, travels back in time. From that moment she will have to adapt to a life for which she was not prepared a