Book Review: Waterfall by Lisa T. Bergren

My Thoughts:

I am already a fan of Lisa T. Bergren’s writing, so when I picked up Waterfall, I knew it was going to be a great read, but WOW. I cannot believe that I haven’t read this series sooner!!! I have been gushing about this series to anyone who causally mentions they need a new book to read. Poor things don’t know what hit them when they ask an avid reader and writer a question like that haha!

Do you love reads taking place in Italy? Enjoy a swashbuckling romance? Knights and fair maidens (who can look after themselves for the most part)? And enjoy reading long into the night when your eyes are burning in your head but you must finish this chapter?? Nay! The entire book??

I read the first three books in this YA series last summer from the library and knew I HAD TO HAVE THEM ALL. And for Christmas, my amazing husband bought me the series and they are AUTOGRAPHED by the author!!! This is easily the best YA book I have read in 2019 (which is the year I read Harry Potter for the first time).

My Rating:

FIVE Stars! Wonderful characters! Action-packed! Easy-to-read! Unpredictable! Page-turner! Tragic! Entertaining! Happily Ever After! Funny! Great world building! Original! Tear-jerker! Romantic!

About the Book:

Gabriella has never spent a summer in Italy like this one.
Remaining means giving up all she’s known and loved … and leaving means forfeiting what she’s come to know—and love itself. 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. In Book One of the River of Time series, Gabi and Lia are stuck among the rubble of medieval castles in rural Tuscany on yet another hot, boring, and dusty archeological site … 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 she comes 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?

About the Author:

Lisa Tawn Bergren is the best-selling, award-winning author of more than 40 books, with over 3 million copies sold. She’s currently finishing up the Sugar Baron’s Daughters Trilogy (Keturah, Verity and Selah). Lisa’s time is split between managing home base, writing, and working at Rocky Mountain Rustic, a business she runs with her husband. Visit her at Lisatawnbergren.com.