Waterfall (River of Time, #1)

Posted on 08 January 2017 by Lisa Tawn Bergren

What do you do when your knight in shining armor lives, literally, in a different world Most American teenagers want a vacation in Italy, but the Betarrini sisters have spent every summer of their lives among the romantic hills with their archaelogist parents Stuck among the rubble of the medieval castles in rural Tuscany, on yet another hot, dusty archaeological site, Gabi and Lia are bored out of their mindsuntil 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.Suddenly Gabi s summer in Italy is much, much interesting. Read Waterfall (River of Time, #1) – kino-fada.fr DNF This has to go down as one of the silliest, if not the silliest book ever written in the history of YA fiction Our 17 year old heroine finds herself in midst of a medieval battle after traveling back in time and what does she do She falls crazy in LUST with the first guy she sets eyes onI was in the middle of a real battle Men were wounded or dying I glanced left and saw t...For those who like a visual Marcello Favourite Quote We froze Neither of us moving, simply staring at each other if the other was going to move first You are, he whispered, uncommonly stirring He closed his eyes then, as if he had to in order to break the bond between us, then lifted me to the saddle and stare at the ground as he guided my feet into the stirrups.AWESOME I am not usually a fan of anything that slightly resembles historical fict For those who like a visual Marcello Favourite Quote We froze Neither of us moving, simply staring at each other if the other was going to move first You are, he whispered, uncommonly stirring He closed his eyes then, as if he had to in order to break the bond between us, then lifted me to the saddle and stare at the ground as he guided my feet into the stirrups.AWESOME I am not usually a fan of anything that slightly resembles historical fiction and well this is time travel back to Fourteenth Century Italy But I love everything about this book the setting, the characters, the history, the romance It has to be one of my favourite series of 2011.Bergen prose is elegant and magnetic while the plot is fast paced and addicting Often with historical fiction I feel overloaded with...Love this book This was the Total Package for me There wasn t an ounce of anything missing I m a sucker for a good history action adventure romance book, but this far exceeded my expectations I couldn t put this one down, loved every bit of it The story is about two sisters who travel to Italy every summer due to their mom and late father s love of archeology The Betarrini sisters search a tomb in which they were not supposed to enter and find handprints on the wall As they both place Love this book This was the Total Package for me There wasn t an ounce of anything missing I m a sucker for a good history action adventure romance book, but this far exceeded my expectations I couldn t put this one down, loved every bit of it The story is about two sisters who travel to Italy every summer due to their mom and late father s love of archeology The Betarrini sisters search a tomb in which they were not supposed to enter and find handprints on the wall As they both place their hands on these ancient handprints things begin to change Upon entering the 13th century, Gabriella finds she is alone in this tomb, not sure where her sister Evange...The cover of this book drew me in first, and reading about the book thoroughly intrigued me It sounded like a really neat, adventurous read But I was slightly wrong in my assumptions It wasn t just a neat read it was an AWESOME read It had everything a reader could want in a medieval adventure battles, sword fights, balls, adventure, peril, humor, suspense, mystery, romanceeverything To put it simply I was completely wowed by this book The River of T...Rating 2.5 StarsWaterfall is probably one of the most misguided books to have ever been marketed The title Waterfall implies that there will be at least a mention of a waterfall throughout the book Let me tell you now,there isn tThe cover of this book is gorgeously deceptive and seems to portray a girl going through a gateway of some kind I ll spoil something for you again there s no gateway The synopsis of Waterfall will tell you that this is an adventure novel about time travel wr Rating 2.5 StarsWaterfall is probably one of the most misguided books to have ever been marketed The title...Gabi and Lia Betarrini get to spend their summer vacation in beautful ItalyToo bad it s on a hot and dusty archeological site, among the rubble of the medieval castles in rural Tuscany Bored beyond belief, the Betarrini sisters go exploring on the site into an acient tomb Where Gabi finds handprints inside So when Gabi and her sister lay their hands atop of the prints Gabi finds herself in fourteenth century Italy., in the mist of a fierce battle of knights of two opposing forces Oh pl Gabi and Lia Betarrini get to spend their summer vacation in beautful ItalyToo bad it s on a hot and dusty arche...Many of my friends recommended this book to me but I still didn t read it This book was on my want to read shelf for a long time When I think of it now, it was on that shelf for too long I finally decided to pick it up Luckily I was in for a long car ride To be exact a seven hour car ride I couldn t put out down once I started it Now I would say that this is one of my favorite books series I would recommend this to anyone I loved every part of it I honestly can t think of one part that Many of my friends recommended this book to me but I still didn t read it This book was on my want to read shelf for a long time When I think of it now, it was on that shelf for too long I finally decided to pick it up Luckily I was in for a long car ride To be exact a seven hour car ride I couldn t put out down once I started it Now I would say that this is one of my favorite books series I would recommend this to anyone I loved every part of it I honestly can t think of one part that I didn t love This is a review of the WHOLE series This series is seriousl...One thing I ve learned from reading this series is that I am totally unprepared for time travel and that I m a horrible parent because I have not prepared my children either I don t think I would last very long in the middle ages Our heroine Gabi and her sister Lia are transported from our modern times to Medieval Italy I liked how Gabi handles herself, her reactions seemed realistic I liked that she always looked for the positive and stays optimistic in the face of so many trials I also li One t...I found some of the circumstances a liiiiiittle convenient oh, you re sent back in time to medieval Italy Good thing your pops taught you ancient Italian and sword fighting and would have liked a bitof a culture shock no plumbing females with opinions but nevertheless...To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln For people who like this kind of thing, it s the kind of thing they d like This book was not completely awful Though I did not like it, I understand why others might Some of thebelievable plot elements are interesting, I just couldn t get past the bad writing, awful romance, stick figure characters, and overall poor quality I m not saying that no one should read it, I just wouldn t recommend it.Here are some of my biggest complaints Many of the plot elem To para...

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08 January 2017

Lisa Tawn Bergren