Waterfall

“I nodded, pretending to be a hundred times more courageous than I felt. But that was the thing about courage. Sometimes you had to fake it to feel it.”

1 STAR

My, my, where did this book go wrong? I try to be open to the ditzy, where's-the-hottie-to-consume-all-my-attention, but I just couldn't do it with this book. Gabi (which is ironic, because that's my name) couldn't catch my interest because the second after landing back in time, has to find the prettiest boy and obsess over him while she's in the middle of a battleground where men are dying all around her. Everything seemed way too coincidental: you're in 15th century Italy and you just happen to know how to speak a specific dialect of Italian needed? Awesome! You happen to be stranded and the only weapon is a broadsword? Hurrah, you've been trained in fencing all your life! Another thing that really bothered me simply was the actions taken by the women of this book. Now, please, please do not get me wrong, this is not how women should be forced to act and I'm a feminist through and through, but in this social situation these female characters would hardly address people the way they do here, and a lot of the things Gabi says are completely out of the bounds a woman of her station would say. I think this book had a lot of potential, but I just couldn't get past Gabi's asinine voice, the lucky happenstances, and the social misconducts. DNF around 35%. Share your thoughts!