Waterfall - Lisa Bergren

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Title: Waterfall
Author: Lisa T. Bergren
Genre: Historical fiction
Rating: 3/5
# pages: 384
Date read: August, 2011

Most American teenagers want a vacation in Italy, but the Bentarrini sisters have spent every summer of their lives with their parents, famed Etruscan scholars, among the romantic hills. Stuck among the rubble of medieval castles in rural Tuscany on yet another hot, dusty archeological site, Gabi and Lia are bored out of their minds... until Gabi places her hand atop a handprint in an ancient tomb and finds herself in fourteenth-century Italy. And worse yet, in the middle of a fierce battle between knights of two opposing forces.

And thus does she come to be rescued by the knight-prince Marcello Falassi, who takes her back to his father's castle - a castle Gabi has seen in ruins in another life. Suddenly Gabi's summer in Italy is much, much more interesting. But what do you do when your knight in shining armor lives, literally, in a different world?

I'll admit it - my main reason for reading this was that I could get it as a free Kindle book from Amazon. But YA, time-travel and historical fiction sounded like a good mix, so I was eager enough to read it. Not all that eager to finish it though. It's one of those books that you enjoy while reading, but that doesn't leave too much of an impression on you afterwards. I did think Gabi had just a hint of being a Mary Sue at times which meant that the entire book read a bit like wish-fulfilment, and the level of writing didn't exactly dispell that notion.

It was enjoyable enough though, so I think I'd still like to read the next book in the series. Especially as I am actually a tad curious as to what happens next. It had shades of Outlander in its love story, which could be a good thing, depending on where Lisa Bergren takes it from here.