Teardrop
Teardrop, by Lauren Kate.
Never, ever cry . . .
Seventeen-year-old Eureka won’t let anyone close enough to feel her pain. After her mother was killed in a freak accident, the things she used to love hold no meaning. She wants to escape, but one thing holds her back: Ander, the boy who is everywhere she goes, whose turquoise eyes are like the ocean.
And then Eureka uncovers an ancient tale of romance and heartbreak, about a girl who cried an entire continent into the sea. Suddenly her mother’s death and Ander’s appearance seem connected, and her life takes on dark undercurrents that don’t make sense.
Can everything you love be washed away?
I hadn't actually heard anything about this book before I got it and I hadn't read anything by Lauren Kate before this, although I had been told good things about her fallen series. I won this book on twitter when I entered a mystery prize, and I am so glad that I did otherwise I probably wouldn't have gone out and bought it for myself.
Like I said, I had never read anything by Lauren Kate so I wasn't sure what to think. At first I found it a little bit wordy at times and I found myself getting quite confused reading the prologue, but that was probably just me. However, after I got through the prologue I found it a lot easier to understand and I was really getting into it, I didn't want to put it down! This is definitely my kind of book, a world within our own but we just can't see it, people protecting us from things we are unaware of.
I thought that this book dealt with issues that are becoming a lot more common in our generation, issues such as depression, the loss of a family member, slightly dysfunctional families and most importantly the love and social life of a teen. What I enjoyed most about this was the way it was written, it was real, it wasn't sugar coated it was written from the point of view of a teen, and teens often are upfront and abrupt.
There was a lot of mystery in this book that kept me guessing. It really made me think about the characters and their actions which I don't always do, often a character does something and I just accept it and I don't question why they did that, but not when I was reading this. There were also many tragic events, and it left me exhausted. All I was doing was sitting there reading, but I was feeling the strain that was put on these characters, it was one thing after the other, things just kept on getting worse. The romance... blossoming relationships, it left me feeling fuzzy inside and girly. I'm not a girly person, but these relationships in books always get me, they're just so perfect but not at the same time and i love it! Oh and there was magic! Well I don't know if you would consider it magic but it certainly wasn't ordinary, and I love that kind of thing.
This book left me on one of the biggest cliffhangers going, and it actually made me panic at first because I wasn't aware that this was part of a trilogy. I was over the moon when I realized it was because I just need more, I want it in my life! What makes it even better is that the next book 'Waterfall' is set to be published on my birthday...so feel free to buy me a copy ;)
If you're like me and you like a fantasy/mystery kind of book, then I would certainly recommend this book, I thought it was brilliant and I'm sure you will too!
Seventeen-year-old Eureka won’t let anyone close enough to feel her pain. After her mother was killed in a freak accident, the things she used to love hold no meaning. She wants to escape, but one thing holds her back: Ander, the boy who is everywhere she goes, whose turquoise eyes are like the ocean.
And then Eureka uncovers an ancient tale of romance and heartbreak, about a girl who cried an entire continent into the sea. Suddenly her mother’s death and Ander’s appearance seem connected, and her life takes on dark undercurrents that don’t make sense.
Can everything you love be washed away?
I hadn't actually heard anything about this book before I got it and I hadn't read anything by Lauren Kate before this, although I had been told good things about her fallen series. I won this book on twitter when I entered a mystery prize, and I am so glad that I did otherwise I probably wouldn't have gone out and bought it for myself.
Like I said, I had never read anything by Lauren Kate so I wasn't sure what to think. At first I found it a little bit wordy at times and I found myself getting quite confused reading the prologue, but that was probably just me. However, after I got through the prologue I found it a lot easier to understand and I was really getting into it, I didn't want to put it down! This is definitely my kind of book, a world within our own but we just can't see it, people protecting us from things we are unaware of.
I thought that this book dealt with issues that are becoming a lot more common in our generation, issues such as depression, the loss of a family member, slightly dysfunctional families and most importantly the love and social life of a teen. What I enjoyed most about this was the way it was written, it was real, it wasn't sugar coated it was written from the point of view of a teen, and teens often are upfront and abrupt.
There was a lot of mystery in this book that kept me guessing. It really made me think about the characters and their actions which I don't always do, often a character does something and I just accept it and I don't question why they did that, but not when I was reading this. There were also many tragic events, and it left me exhausted. All I was doing was sitting there reading, but I was feeling the strain that was put on these characters, it was one thing after the other, things just kept on getting worse. The romance... blossoming relationships, it left me feeling fuzzy inside and girly. I'm not a girly person, but these relationships in books always get me, they're just so perfect but not at the same time and i love it! Oh and there was magic! Well I don't know if you would consider it magic but it certainly wasn't ordinary, and I love that kind of thing.
This book left me on one of the biggest cliffhangers going, and it actually made me panic at first because I wasn't aware that this was part of a trilogy. I was over the moon when I realized it was because I just need more, I want it in my life! What makes it even better is that the next book 'Waterfall' is set to be published on my birthday...so feel free to buy me a copy ;)
If you're like me and you like a fantasy/mystery kind of book, then I would certainly recommend this book, I thought it was brilliant and I'm sure you will too!
