Michael Hechavarria Hechavarria itibaren Grimbister, Kirkwall, Orkney KW15, Združeno kraljestvo itibaren Grimbister, Kirkwall, Orkney KW15, Združeno kraljestvo

Scotty and his two best friends, Pete and Jason, decide to stay after school to work on a project Jason's building in shop class. It's one of those stupid decisions that usually doesn't change anything, but this time it changes everything. School let out early because of a blizzard and so the three of them are now stuck at school. (Four other teens are also stranded with them; the lone grownup went for help and never comes back.) It keeps snowing and they lose power. That means there's also no heat. And it's still snowing. I deliberately waited to read this book until almost March because I didn't want to read this when there was any chance at all of a snowstorm. Last year, we had a double blizzard that gave us a couple feet of snow in three days. This storm was way worse. They got something like ten feet of snow (or more!) in this book. And reading about the tempers fraying and the lack of food (there's a cafeteria, of course, but your options are limited when you can't actually cook anything since there's no electricity--you're left with canned fruit and not that much else, you know?) and the sheer claustrophobia of being trapped in a building. Yes, it's a school and not, say, a house or apartment, but still. STILL. Very fun, VERY CREEPY book. And I hate snow even more now.

Ruby Red was a story that took some time to get into but by the end I was intrigued. The plot is a lot more complicated than first revealed and though I loved Gwen and her best friend the plot is what kept me reading. After a little over halfway being done with the book it picked up a lot and by the end I was invested. Overall I recommend giving this book a try because by the end it is worth it.