what: Time travel, vague prophecies, silly heroine, douchey hero, evul Count with nefarious plans, oh noes, can silly heroine/douchey hero stop evul Count
Gwen was a mopey cow, all she did was whine about Gideon, jump to conclusions about him, and get jealous whenever he was around other girls.
She should have been concentrating on her time travel or on finding a way to stop that evul Count guy instead of acting all melodramatic about a guy she'd only met a couple of weeks ago.
Gwen's love for Gideon was so pathetic, he treated her like utter rubbish but she was still desperate for him.
Any awful thing he did was forgiven and forgotten because he was just that sexy, ugh,
She was so immature, needy, and silly I rolled my eyes at the amount of times Gwen cried or nearly cried whenever she saw or thought of Gideon.
I was sick of how much she obsessed over him, most of her thoughts revolved around him and how attractive he was.
It was sickening. She seemed more like an idioticyear old instead of ayear old,
I hated Gideon, he had no personality apart from being arrogant, He fucked over Gwen and acted like a dick towards her every time he saw her, he was horrible.
I hated how he twisted everything around to make himself look like the misunderstoodgoodguy, and Gwen the bad guy.
Was I actually meant to believe he had strong feelings Gwen It would have helped if he.
Treated her with some respect, Didn't act hot and cold with her all the time and, Didn't flirt and spend all his time with Charlotte and Lavinia, he seemed far more into them than Gwen.
Yea, I didn't buy the romance and love between Gwen and Gideon at all, they'd only known each other forweeks, and they'd done nothing but argue, lie, and hate each other in thoseweeks.
How could they have possibly fallen in love!
I was more interested in the potential romance between Gwen's mum and Falk.
Did they get together or what!
I didn't like Gwen's attitude towards other female characters who were around her age.
Apart from Lesley, she didn't like any of them, and was constantly calling them names and looking down on them.
Ugh.
So Gwen's butler Bernard was actually her secret nephew Did Bernard know he was related to Gwen Why was Bernard a butler when Lucy/Paul ensured their kids/grandkids would have loads of money
I liked Gwen's relationship with her immediate family, also her friendship with Lesley was really sweet.
Gwen's cousin, Charlotte, was the typical mean girl that hated the heroine/Gwen because she wanted the hero/Gideon all to herself.
You'd think Charlotte would have a better relationship with Gwen since she'd grown up with her, if not that, then you'd expect Charlotte to at least have some loyalty towards her.
But no, Charlotte had zero loyalty or love towards the cousin she grew up with, It was so unrealistic that Charlotte wanted to get Gwen in serious trouble, they were family and even if they didn't get along, Charlotte would have realistically looked out for Gwen.
Ugh, I'm so sick of all the over the top mean girls in YA,
Why would Gwen want to date Gideon when she didn't even know the details of his relationship with her cousin Did they date Did Gideon have strong feelings for Charlotte Did they have sex How serious were they Why didn't Gwen ask him exactly what sort of relationship he had with Charlotte That would be one of the first things anyone would ask if they started to date someone that had previously been in some sort of a relationship with their close relative.
The time travel, the chronographs, and prophecies were all rather confusing, I didn't know what was going on most of the time,
Every time Gwen/Gideon or anyone else did something/had to do something in the past it had already happened before they'd actually gone back in time and done that thing.
So by that logic if Gwen went back and saved James the school ghost from dying then he shouldn't have even been a ghost in the first place.
Yea, it didn't make any sense,
Gwen's reunion with Lucy and Paul after she found out they were her parents was underwhelming.
Where was the drama The angst The emotion
Lesley's little romance with Raphael was miles better than Gwen/Gideon's romance.
I found the Count's master plan really cheesy, everything he did was just so he could be immortal Yea, I wanted something more original.
All in all, I was mildly entertained by some of the characters and certain aspects of the story But for the most part I was frustrated with the weepy heroine, the cheesy hero, the silly romance, the cliched bad guy, and the nonstop time travel.
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Was für ein schönes Ende,
Nachdem mir "Rubinrot" und "Saphirblau" schon so gut gefallen haben, war ich richtig neugierig auf das Finale denn bisher habe ich auch nur die ersten beiden Filme gesehen.
Zur Handlung möchte ich nichts verraten, falls es tatsächlich noch Leute wie mich gibt, die diese Reihe nicht bereits vor Jahren gelesen haben.
Insgesamt spielt die gesamte Geschichte innerhalb von wenigen Wochen und von daher ist es auch nicht überraschend, dass sich die Charaktere nicht groß weiterentwickeln.
Trotzdem war mir Gideon in diesem Band um einiges sympathischer als in den beiden Vorgängern,
Das Ende habe ich so nicht ganz kommen sehen, aber es hat mir wirklich gut gefallen und bin sehr zufrieden.
Der Schreibstil war wieder humorvoll, spannend locker und flüssig und gerade die Kommentare von Xemerius waren einfach zum schießen!
Solltet ihr diese Reihe noch nicht gelesen haben, kann ich sie euch wirklich empfehlen! Nur rate ich euch, dass ihr die Filme erst seht, wenn ihr alle Bücher gelesen habt, da in den Filmen nicht unbedingt alles in der "richtigen" Reihenfolge geschieht und natürlich einiges geändert wurde.
Stars!
BR with Lexie
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We can't stop time, but it will sometimes stand still for love.
PEARL S. BUCK
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Emerald Green is the final book in the story of the two in love time travelling teenagers Gideon de Villiers amp Gwyneth Shepherd.
Gideon is this gorgeous cool guy all the girls are after amp Gwen is theyr, old normal girl in HS who is thrown into the world of time travel, amp can also suddenly see ghosts.
Gideon amp Gwen are part of a secret group of twelve time travelers, They are forced by the guardians to travel together back in time to the eighteenth century amp beyond amp in the process fall in love.
They get to wear all these costumes from other periods amp go to fancy balls, This book has bad guys, action, mystery, amp love, amp is full of secrets amp lies, There is a traitor among them, amp they are trying to figure out who they can trust,
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I couldn't get enough of the sight of him,
At last he looked at me, Oh, my God, those eyes! I instantly felt weak at the knees again,
Would my heart ever stop beating faster at the sight of Gideon Would a time ever come when I didn't feel I was dazzled by something incredibly wonderful every time I set eyes on him Probably not.
All I knew was that I loved him, and I always would, and I wanted him to go on kissing me forever.
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I really enjoyed this series amp adored Gideon!!! I especially enjoyed this book since I BR it with my sweet daughter Lexie! I had so much fun talking book boyfriends with her! Lol, she was crazy for Gideon amp was obsessed with this series! This is a fabulous YA series that teens amp adults can both enjoy! :D
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You only have to be in the same room and I need to touch you and kiss you.
"When you kiss me, Gwyneth, I feel I'm losing touch with the ground,
When you kiss me, all I want is to feel you and hold you in my arms.
Without you, there'd be no sense in my life,
This was such a great series, I might have to add this one to my physical collection, I love Gwyneth and Gideon as characters and as a romance, And the story is very intriguing, But I do wish it was a little better explained, Like where did the chronograph come from and why did it work the way that it did and why did it create a philosopher's stone And where did the prophecies come from Someone from the future who knew all that happened must have traveled back and made them, but who and why
While reading this series I decided to watch the German movies as well and I really enjoyed them.
I love the two leads, Gideon is super hot, and Gwyneth is lovely and suits theth century clothing even better than our own.
The first movie was better than the second, And
the timeline is a little different so there was an overlap with bookthat included spoilers, You probably shouldn't watch the movies until you have read allbooks, I can watch the last one now which I will hopefully do this weekend,
Update: I watched the last movie and it was bloody awful! So they get consecutively worse as they go along.
And the last one is by far the least accurate, They change a whole lot of major things regarding Gwyneth/Gwendolyn and the prophecy and how the story ends.
At least I got to see more of Gideon's pretty face, Too bad I'm not likely to ever see the actor again, How am I so behind on my reviews How deep sigh
Emerald Green was disappointing.
I might as well get this out of the way really quickly, because while I really enjoyed reading both Ruby Red and Sapphire Blue they were funny and lighthearted and extremely entertaining I was thoroughly unimpressed with this one.
The writing style was the same as always not particularly flowery, but it flowed nicely nonetheless but most of the things that made me excited about the first two books were gone.
Gwyneth, the main character, goes from hilarious and relatable to downright whiny, There were also some times she got on my nerves during book two, but she was overall a very good MC, and a realistic teenager.
This time around, however, she made me roll my eyes all the time whenever she was speaking, and the same happened with her love interest, Gideon.
I loved them both individually and as a couple in the first two books, and then, . . I don't know. Maybe it was the unnecessary angst that made me lose interest in them, but I can't hope for two people to finally be together if I find them both annoying.
Gwyneth was a crybaby. And Gideon was, frankly, kind of an asshole,
Sadly, things were not better plotwise, There were still some funny and mildly exciting moments, but the third book in a trilogy is supposed to be fastpaced and impossible to put down, and this one was just underwhelming.
Hardly anything happened, and I was often bored, Again, it wasn't all bad, hence the two, but it wasn't what I expected either.
Most of the book was really slow, and then the ending felt extremely rushed and left me feeling unsatisfied, as if I needed more answers but none were provided.
That is not how you wrap up a trilogy, I think the keyword for Emerald Green might be, . . underwhelming. I finished reading the book only two weeks ago, and already I remember very little of what happened in it, which is definitely not a good sign.
Another thing that irked me quite a lot was the amount of girlongirl hate on Gwyneth's part, She was rude and insulting to every other girl who even dared approach Gideon, She actually judged a girl solely on her appearance and for having big breasts of all things, I mean, those are clearly a sign of evil, right eyeroll intensifies
Still, I also have some positive things to say.
Sometimes the pacing got better, and we got some of the exciting moments we'd had so often in the first two books, and Gwyneth was still funny when she wasn't too busy crying over her lost love or hating on other girls.
Perhaps I would've liked this one more if it had been the second book instead of the third and last, but it was a very unimpressive way to end the trilogy.
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