That's What He Said Thursday - December 5th, 2013

Well, since I'm not ready for a review quite yet, in the middle of Emerald Green by Kerstin Gier, I searched today for a Thursday meme.  I wasn't really in the mood for what Booking It Through Thursday was doing this week.  And when I Googled Thursday book blog memes, I saw this one, sponsored by Chapter Break, and thought it sounded like fun.  Especially since I'm reading a book with a great guy in it!  Or one that I'm really enjoying loving, and then hating, and then loving again.  So this quote is actually several that I've strung together from the same conversation, I've just left out Gwyneth's part.

"Gwyneth, I've fallen in love with you.  I do realize we've known each other for less than a week, and at first I thought you were rather ... childish, and I probably behaved badly to you.  But you're terribly complicated, I never know what you'll do next, and in some ways you really are terrifyingly ... er ... naive.  Sometimes I just want to shake you.  But then you're amusing, and clever, and amazingly sweet.  And the worst of it is, you only have to be in the same room and I need to touch you and kiss you ..."

- Gideon to Gwyneth

(Sapphire Blue by Kerstin Gier)

And that sentence leaves off because of course at that point they have to kiss each other!  This is such a wonderful scene.  After all the whiplash Gideon has been giving Gwyneth, it's nice for her to get an answer about how he really feels.  Although, of course, as this is only the 2nd book, there will have to be a wrench thrown into what seems to be finally going the way it should.  You can read more about this book in my REVIEW.

Kind of a fun meme, huh?  Join in if you want to!

Sapphire Blue (Ruby Red Trilogy #2) by Kerstin Gier

Okay, I am officially in love with this series, and hoping this author has books other than this series that I can read!!!  I love the characters in this book.  And at first I thought one of the newer ones was really going to annoy me, a ghost gargoyle, or demon as he says he is.  But I grew to love him and couldn't wait until he would show up.  Truly it was a great way for the author to let us know what was happening when our main character wasn't around, or was back in a different time period.  You can read my review of the first book in the series here:  Ruby Red.  This second book I had to check out from the library.
We have the romantic interest of Gideon again, and he's just as off and on as the first book, if not even more so!  In fact, he reminds me of the line in Twilight that Bella says to Edward, "Your mood swings are kinda giving me whiplash."  I'd have to say though that it is almost even more pronounced in this story.  So much that you really feel sorry for Gwyneth.  Although I even began to believe it might be true from the way certain things happened. Even from things that Gideon said.  But then, the whole reveal that he had to get her to like him as part of a plan to figure out if she was the one sabotaging all the missions happens.  And this is not something new.  It happens in lots of stories like these.  But I feel that like in those other stories, even though it may have started out that way, Gideon is probably now in love for real.
In this sequel, Gideon and Gwyneth must go back into the 1700's for a soiree, and also to meet with the Count that seems so evil, but is the one who started all this.  Gwyneth also meets her grandpa back in the past, which she loves because in the present he has passed away, and she really loved him.  But getting to know him in the past, even to try to figure out why Lucy would have done what she did, well it only leads to Gideon thinking she must really be the traitor.  Another new character in this book is Gideon's younger brother Raphael, and he is one that I think I like right away as well.  He's much more upbeat than Gideon often seems to be, and quite sarcastic, which I like.  Gwyneth and her friend are really starting to figure out the whole mystery, and with the help of Raphael, there is a big reveal that we won't get to know until the 3rd book.
I'm so glad I have the 3rd book already, as I can't wait to go on!!!!  I was going to start reading Unhinged next, but as eager as I am to read that, I am going to have to finish this trilogy first.  They're long books, over 300 pages, but they're the kind I can barely put down once I pick up.  The kind that make me want to do nothing but read.  This is also a series where the 2nd book doesn't disappoint at all.  Hoping the 3rd and final will be that way as well!