So far, there haven't been any time paradoxes, which may be due to the Count's Golden Rules which must on no account be broken. There's a bit more action in this second book than the first, and a bit less of modern day London. But no, maybe not.This is a light read, quite more-ish but not at all fluffy.

But why was the first one stolen? And which is the bad side?I must say I'm still quite baffled. Although most of them did so in their lifetimes, the original chronometer was stolen and now the replacement needs their samples. But did he kiss her cousin Charlotte, too?Gwyn and Gideon have a mission - to travel through time and persuade the remaining time travellers to donate their blood. The only thing she can do is follow her mother's advice and trust no-one, especially the Count whom she travels back in time to visit with the oh-so-handsome Gideon of the green eyes, who kissed her. And there seem to be deeper mysteries beneath those secrets.

But there are other secrets and mysteries that seem to be kept from her. Once the blood of all twelve time travellers has been entered, the prophecies say, the Circle will be closed and the Secret that will save the world will be revealed.Or so Gwyn is told. It maintains a chronometer which, once a small sample of that time traveller's blood has been entered into it, prevents uncontrolled jumps back in time. There is a secret society that helps them, founded by one of their time traveling ancestors, the self-styled Count Saint-Germaine. There are destined to be twelve time travellers in all down through the centuries, and in the first book, Ruby Red, Gwyn discovered that she was the last of them - the long awaited Ruby. There are two families, now based in London, with the time-travelling gene one carries it in the male line and the other in the female line. Fantasy, YA)This is the second instalment of the time-travel trilogy, translated from German by Anthea Bell.

Sapphire blue by kerstin gier