I agree it was a nice, pleasurable read, full of adventures from the very beginning. Will the medieval times satisfy them? Will they want return to their mother and contemporary America after some time? Will they decide to stay and lead a totally different style of living? 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. OL16220842W Page_number_confidence 92.78 Pages 390 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.7 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210219211825 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 1052 Scandate 20210216143335 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781434764331 Tts_version 4.Genre: historical fiction, fantasy, romance, christian fiction Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 05:00:52 Boxid IA40062824 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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