Soon enough they fall in love with handsome knights, the cousins Forelli, Marcello and Luca (ok, Lia starts falling for Luca only in the second part but still) but they can’t help asking themselves whether such an infatuation makes sense at all. It only reflects of course a larger power struggle between Ghibellines and Guelphs, two factions that kept Italy divided and devastated during the greater part of the later Middle Ages…
They land in the middle of a skirmish because at that time Italy was a country torn by civil unrests they are forced by circumstances to join a little local war between two cities, Firenze and Siena. The girls go secretly inside, place their hands on the walls in places strangely shaped like their own palms and bam – they time travel together to the fourteenth-century Italy. Their mother discovers an old Etruscan tomb called tumulus (or rather several tumuli but one really special) with some strange frescoes. Why? No company of peers, let them be Americans or Italians, no funny parties or discos, getting up early in the morning just to go to another excavation site…little money…hard life for any teenager. Not only their mother is an archeologist, specializing in Etruscan culture and history like their late father, but also the girls have an opportunity to spend almost every summer in Tuscany, Italy. Gabriella (Gabi) and Evangelia (Lia) Betarrini are two American teenagers who are leading truly exceptional lives. She must now search for her sister while navigating the treacherous waters of the politics and social niceties of the day.Genre: historical fiction, fantasy, romance, christian fiction Luckily, her history obsessed mother taught her a thing or two over the years. She is forced to make up a plausible story for why a young woman would be traveling alone across the Italian countryside–and wearing skinny jeans no less. Gabi is taken in by Marcello (*swoon*) and his knights. Gabi believes that her sister Lia may have traveled in time with her though they didn’t end up at the same location at the same time. She is alone and completely disoriented and when she emerges from the tomb she finds herself in the middle of a fierce battle between sword wielding knights. While spending her summer vacation with her archeologist mom, Gabi is thrust back to fourteenth century Italy after entering a tomb where she knew she wasn’t supposed to be. Waterfall didn’t disappoint in that regard. I love it when a character is displaced so far out of their norm that they are forced to fake their way through an impossible journey. I love time travel so when I saw this book on a friend’s Goodreads shelf, I decided to give it a try. No spoilers in this rapid review of Waterfall by Lisa Tawn Bergren.
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