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The Ruby In The Smoke, Philip Pullman Read and Summarized by Logan Sweeney

The setting of this story is in London during the year 1872. Throughtout the book you meet many characters one of them being Sally Lockhart (main character) a 16 year old girl that has to solve a mystery to keep on living and live life without being always on her guard. Sally is also willing to stay under cover to keep from being killed and to keep from destroying the ruby and letting it be in the hands of Mrs. Holland. Which leads me to another of the main characters Mrs. Holland, a nasty old women that is trying to get the ruby and is willing to kill people that stand in her path just to have it in her possession. Another one of the main characters in Frederick a photographer that hides Sally in the beginning not knowing what he's getting himself into but in the end Sally and Frederick will always be friends althought it might be tough at times. The last character that is important to the story is Mr. Lockhart, Sally's father and a very important man who ends up dying a horrible death that no one wishes even there enemy to die. During the story there are many different conflicts one of them is between Sally Lockhart (main character) and Mrs. Holland who both want the ruby and will do anything for it. Sally is willing to put herself under the power of Opium and Mrs. Holland is willing to kill people and deal will a seriously dumb man for it. But in the end who will end up with ruby that folds so much blood and murder? Who will end up dying with effort? Who will live?

I recommend this book because it is full of action and you can never guess (and be right) about what is going to happen. I also recommend this because it is one of those books that you can't put down and stop reading and you start to ignore the people around you, just to get further and further into the book. I think that it is a very special book that you can never guess what is going to happen and you can never know when you will cry and when you will be about to pee your pants. It is very scary and mysterious so if you like that sort of thing than this book is perfect for you but if you are kind of a softie then this book might be a little to scary but not to much and you might just end up being scared and pushing yourself just to finish it because you want to know what happens to everyone. This book is kind of like a movie you could say because the different seens are very easy to see and as you read you will see the movie that is playing in the crowded theater and you are sitting next to a stranger that is curled up next to you because they are kind of scared.