Outlander... FOR TEENS... in ITALY 
 Not that any book can compare to Outlander... 
 I'm not usually very fond of time travel stories, but when I was young I loved them. I think if I had read this book when I was around 14 it would have been a favorite. Now, as an adult, even considering that this book is a YA, I found it a bit lacking. Why? 
 1.	Insta-love: that's the main reason I didn't love the story. If the relationship between Marcello and Gabi was paid more attention and developed throughout the book, it would have been so much more enjoyable. Besides, their love is mostly focused on their attraction to each other, it isn't very deep. Just because the characters say they love each other doesn't mean the reader will feel it. Even Lia's love interest is predictable. 
 2.	Over accomplished heroine: The female main character knows how use a sword, ride a horse, Italy's history, home remedies, and is fluent in various languages (English, Italian (old Italian), Latin and French)... wtf? Really convenient if you are going to travel through time. I don't care if you are the daughter of two archeologists; no teenager is raised like in the medieval ages. 
 3.	Time Travel: Gabi seems to automatically fit in this new society... the only way we are reminded that she is from the future is by saying how many centuries away separate her from her time... a number of times. I know some of them are unavoidable, but it felt like too much. Again, the character doesn't need to remind me every other line the time difference. Just show me, do not tell me! Some examples: 
 "Dante has been dead for six - no, seven hundred years" 
 "I finally meet a potential man of my dreams, and he's almost seven hundred years old" 
 "I won't be born for almost seven hundred years" 
 "Because it happened almost seven hundred years ago" 
 "Six hundred and seventy years made a world of difference to society." 
 "This guy was not in my league. By six hundred years, at least." 
 "She looked pristine, clean, grand and I gawked at her many towers, which I knew no longer stood six hundred years later" 
 "The same place, but hundreds of years into the future" 
 " - a gown made hundreds of years before - " 
 " Because it happened almost seven hundred years ago" 
 "We were in the fourteenth century..." 
 "...could a girl say yesterday when it was almost seven centuries in the past?" 
 "But then, most other people didn't live in the fourteenth century..." 
 "But my feelings were clearly the only twenty-first-century ones in the room." 
 "And it all hinged on the Betarrini girl's arrival from the twenty first century" 
 "You are from the twenty-first century. This is wrong..." 
 "I wondered if that tonic was a fourteenth-century version of morphine." 
 WE GET IT 
 Regarding the Christianity, for those like me who aren't religious, it is not preachy. You will find a lot of mentions to God and prayers and talking about HIM and HIS path. But it is not preachy at all, just characters that are religious and behave as such. Besides, remember that Christianity was part of daily life back in the days of the story and science was almost unknown. 
 But not everything is bad: 
 1.	The main character is really brave and acts like a leader 
 2.	There is a lot of action and adventure 
 3.	No love triangle :) 
 4.	The pace is really fast 
 I'll continue through the next book, maybe the relationships between them will deepen. Sorry for the long review :)