Fate, gypsy magic and a fervent wish are enough to send a
young Renaissance Italian girl spinning through time. She
already knows this can be done, as her cousin from the
future came to pay a visit in a previous tale. Now,
learning that the young merchant she expected to wed has
married someone wealthier, she needs to escape for a while.
Where better than the twenty-first century?
A TALE OF TWO CENTURIES follows on from My Super Sweet
Sixteenth Century which introduced Kat, a modern miss, and
Alessandra from Florence. Told in present tense, the story
takes us with Alessandra from her palazzo to Hollywood,
with amusing touches like the handprints of the three Harry
Potter stars, and a young woman who never shows her ankles,
placed among women showing bare stomachs. Time travel
magically allows her to speak English, though not
necessarily understand it, and the first thing she needs to
do is to find her cousin. Two months have passed for Kat
since her own return, and she decides to pass Alessandra
off as an exchange student and actress. Can the girls pull
it off, and how long will they need to keep up the
disguise?
Horseless carriages, clean water to drink, store-bought
clothes, verbal contractions - there's such a lot to
learn! Shakespeare is a novelty but the budding actress
feels at home with his material. High school is a
different matter, but at only sixteen, the girls have to
attend... unchaperoned! I'm not that interested in school
stories so I found other aspects more entertaining, and at
times the plot did seem to owe something to a High School
Musical script. There's plenty of other material however
and every time Kat has to persuade her cousin she reminds
her that during her own journey she was forced to wear a
corset. Romance steps in when Alessandra starts to feel
sparks with a disaffected good-looking boy, Austin, but she
doesn't know where it will lead. She might want to stay
here, but that would change history.
Reading this kind of adventure is a great way to learn
about other places and time periods. The details of both
Florence and Hollywood are well written and entertaining.
If you'd love to sightsee in either location, A TALE OF TWO
CENTURIES by Rachel Harris can be your guide in this fun
young adult romance.
Alessandra D'Angeli is in need of an adventure. Tired of her
sixteenth–century life in Italy and homesick for her
time–traveling cousin, Cat, who visited her for a
magical week and dazzled her with tales of the future,
Alessandra is lost. Until the stars hear her plea.
One mystical spell later, Alessandra appears on Cat's
Beverly Hills doorstep five hundred years in the future.
Surrounded by confusing gadgets, scary transportation, and
scandalous clothing, Less is hesitant to live the life of a
twenty–first century teen...until she meets the
infuriating—and infuriatingly handsome—surfer
Austin Michaels. Austin challenges everything she believes
in...and introduces her to a world filled with possibility.
With the clock ticking, Less knows she must live every
moment of her modern life while she still can. But how will
she return to the drab life of her past when the future is
what holds everything she's come to love?
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