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Teardrop Hardcover – October 22, 2013
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Never, ever cry. . . . Eureka Boudreaux's mother drilled that rule into her daughter years ago. But now her mother is gone, and everywhere Eureka goes he is there: Ander, the tall, pale blond boy who seems to know things he shouldn't, who tells Eureka she is in grave danger, who comes closer to making her cry than anyone has before.
But Ander doesn't know Eureka's darkest secret: ever since her mother drowned in a freak accident, Eureka wishes she were dead, too. She has little left that she cares about, just her oldest friend, Brooks, and a strange inheritance—a locket, a letter, a mysterious stone, and an ancient book no one understands. The book contains a haunting tale about a girl who got her heart broken and cried an entire continent into the sea. Eureka is about to discover that the ancient tale is more than a story, that Ander might be telling the truth . . . and that her life has far darker undercurrents than she ever imagined.
- Reading age12 - 15 years
- Print length464 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade level7 - 9
- Lexile measureHL780L
- Dimensions5.75 x 1.5 x 8.5 inches
- PublisherDelacorte Press
- Publication dateOctober 22, 2013
- ISBN-100385742657
- ISBN-13978-0385742658
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LAUREN KATE is the internationally bestselling author of the TEARDROP series, the FALLEN series, and The Orphan's Song. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages. She lives in Los Angeles. Visit Lauren online at laurenkatenovels.com.
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“Eureka?” Her low voice competed with the burbling of a fish tank that featured a neon plastic scuba diver buried to his knees in sand but showed no sign of containing fish.
Eureka looked around the vacant lobby, wishing to invoke some other, invisible Eureka to take her place for the hour.
“I’m Dr. Landry. Please come in.”
Since Dad’s remarriage four years ago, Eureka had survived an armada of therapists. A life ruled by three adults who couldn’t agree on anything proved far messier than one ruled by just two. Dad had doubted the first analyst, an old-school Freudian, almost as much as Mom had hated the second, a heavy-lidded psychiatrist who doled out numbness in pills. Then Rhoda, Dad’s new wife, came onto the scene, game to try the school counselor, and the acupuncturist, and the anger manager. But Eureka had put her foot down at the patronizing family therapist, in whose office Dad had never felt less like family. She’d actually half liked the last shrink, who’d touted a faraway Swiss boarding school--until her mother caught wind of it and threatened to take Dad to court.
Eureka noted her new therapist’s taupe leather slip-ons. She’d sat on the couch across from many similar pairs of shoes. Female doctors did this little trick: they slipped off their flats at the beginning of a session, slid their feet back into them to signal the end. They all must have read the same dull article about the Shoe Method being gentler on the patient than simply saying time was up.
The office was purposefully calming: a long maroon leather couch against the shuttered window, two upholstered chairs opposite a coffee table with a bowl of those coffee gold-wrapped candies, a rug stitched with different-colored footprints. A plug-in air freshener made everything smell like cinnamon, which Eureka did not mind. Landry sat in one of the chairs. Eureka tossed her bag on the floor with a loud thump--honors textbooks were bricks--then slid down low on the couch.
“Nice place,” she said. “You should get one of those swinging pendulums with the silver balls. My last doctor had one. Maybe a water cooler with the hot and cold taps.”
“If you’d like some water, there’s a pitcher by the sink. I’d be happy to--”
“Never mind.” Eureka had already let slip more words than she’d intended to speak the whole hour. She was nervous. She took a breath and reerected her walls. She reminded herself she was a Stoic.
One of Landry’s feet freed itself from its taupe flat, then used its stockinged toe to loosen the other shoe’s heel, revealing maroon toenails. With both feet tucked under her thighs, Landry propped her chin in her palm. “What brings you here today?”
When Eureka was trapped in a bad situation, her mind fled to wild destinations she didn’t try to avoid. She imagined a motorcade cruising through a ticker tape parade in the center of New Iberia, stylishly escorting her to therapy.
But Landry looked sensible, interested in the reality from which Eureka yearned to escape. Eureka’s red Jeep had brought her here. The seventeen-mile stretch of road between this office and her high school had brought her here--and every second ticked toward another minute during which she wasn’t back at school warming up for that afternoon’s cross-country meet. Bad luck had brought her here.
Or was it the letter from Acadia Vermilion Hospital, stating that because of her recently attempted suicide, therapy was not optional but mandatory?
Suicide. The word sounded more violent than the attempt had been. The night before she was supposed to start her senior year, Eureka had simply opened the window and let the gauzy white curtains billow toward her as she lay down in her bed. She’d tried to think of one bright thing about her future, but her mind had only rolled backward, toward lost moments of joy that could never be again. She couldn’t live in the past, so she decided she couldn’t live. She turned up her iPod. She swallowed the remainder of the oxycodone pills Dad had in the medicine cabinet for the pain from the fused disc in his spine.
Eight, maybe nine pills; she didn’t count them as they tumbled down her throat. She thought of her mother. She thought of Mary, mother of God, who she’d been raised to believe prayed for everyone at the hour of death. Eureka knew the Catholic teachings about suicide, but she believed in Mary, whose mercy was vast, who might understand that Eureka had lost so much there was nothing to do but surrender.
She woke up in a cold ER, strapped to a gurney and gagging on the tube of a stomach pump. She heard Dad and Rhoda fighting in the hallway while a nurse forced her to drink awful liquid charcoal to bind to the poisons they couldn’t purge from her system.
Because she didn’t know the language that would have gotten her out sooner--“I want to live,” “I won’t try that again”--Eureka spent two weeks in the psychiatric ward. She would never forget the absurdity of jumping rope next to the huge schizophrenic woman during calisthenics, of eating oatmeal with the college kid who hadn’t slit his wrists deep enough, who spat in the orderlies’ faces when they tried to give him pills. Somehow, sixteen days later, Eureka was trudging into morning Mass before first period at Evangeline Catholic High, where Belle Pogue, a sophomore from Opelousas, stopped her at the chapel door with “You must feel blessed to be alive.”
Eureka had glared into Belle’s pale eyes, causing the girl to gasp, make the sign of the cross, and scuttle to the farthest pew. In the six weeks she’d been back at Evangeline, Eureka had stopped counting how many friends she’d lost.
Product details
- Publisher : Delacorte Press; First Edition (October 22, 2013)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 464 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0385742657
- ISBN-13 : 978-0385742658
- Reading age : 12 - 15 years
- Lexile measure : HL780L
- Grade level : 7 - 9
- Item Weight : 1.28 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.75 x 1.5 x 8.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,919,798 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #3,266 in Teen & Young Adult Fantasy Romance
- #3,986 in Teen & Young Adult Fantasy Action & Adventure
- #4,240 in Teen & Young Adult Paranormal Romance
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Lauren Kate is the internationally number one bestselling author of the Fallen novels, the Teardrop novels, and The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages. She lives in Los Angeles.
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BEAUTIFUL LOOKING BOOK. LIKE SRSLY.
I own the new cover. The original cover was ok, but it appeared that she would never get out of her fallen cover look. "Girl In A Pretty Dress With A Pretty Background". Then she changed it and I love it! (You may argue it is just another pretty, cut-off girl face, but when you receive it and take the time to look its got a lot more detail than that) The entire cover has a low temperature, with blues coming in everywhere. The title is slightly translucent, so you can see strands of hair in it. The title page features dripping water-glass, and at the beginning of every chapter is a fitting teardrop.
VERY PRETTY.
I liked this book. Didn't love it or hate it. And I was lacking in the apathy that I tend to feel towards 3-star books. The author did a good job. I was compelled to keep reading. This book is an airy one, though. No real deepness happening anywhere. Unfortunately even the characters fell a little flat. But, overall, the story was good, the characters satisfying, and the writing nice, like a calming light breeze in the midst of a hurricane.
I will say however that if you have a long list of books to catch up on this one may not be your first choice. It is a great choice though if you've just gotten off a very emotional book and you need SOMETHING to cool you down. Like if you just read We Were Liars, or The Fault in Our Stars, or Before I Fall.
****SPOILERS BELOW SO LEAVE NOW MY LITTLE PIXIES WHO ACTUALLY CARE-----OTHERWISE WELCOME TO THE REALM OF THE TRUTH******
I did like this book. Mostly because it was entertaining, something to do. You should read it sometime. But below I'm gonna get into the things that really bugged me.
Eureka. Eureka. EUREKA. This is a personal annoyance, but it appears a few others share it, so I'm gonna mention it. The main character's name is annoying. Because this book is in the third-person point of view, (which I have no problem with) I had to read that name a lot. And after a while, it got annoying. As in, my brain stopped wanting to pronounce it half the time, and each time I read it it started sounding less and less like a word. As one reviewer points out, "I HAVE FOUND IT!" resonates within every page.
The author describes things. As authors are supposed to do. Yet, I found myself skipping these descriptions quite frequently, not because they were long or anything, I just felt like there was nothing drawing me in to read them. I look back and only now realize why- there is not nearly enough figurative language or interesting words in this book. There was figurative language, but it was small and boring, and used in so many other books it cannot be called unique. This was like this. That was that color. Those were those shaped. None of this is to say the author wasn't detailed, I could see what she described in my mind just fine, but it was just... meh.
And lastly, the pacing of the book. Eureka is sad. Eureka continues to be sad. Eureka sees Ander. Eureka is confused by Ander. Eureka continues to be confused by Ander. The first three quarters of the book were the same few scenarios recycled with different settings and slightly different circumstances. The only real new things happening were the updates from Madame Blavatsky about Eureka's book. Then we get to the ending and things start picking up. People die. People almost die. Emotions run tight as the twins are strung up by the Seedbearers. (On a tangent, why are they called Seedbearers anyway? I'm not really sure I ever got an explanation) And finally, Eureka reaches the point where she can't take her sadness anymore and finally cries.
Let me clear this up, this entire book led up to this moment. Eureka hasn't cried since she was little, and even then she was shut down quickly. Eureka has been through her parent's divorce, lost her mother in a freak accident, endured torment by a fellow student, pretty much caused the death of her only confidante, lost her best friend Brooks, seen her darling younger siblings hung from a swingset by their limbs, witnessed the death of her stepmother, and now she learns that if she is to kill any of the Seedbearers, she will also kill her switched-sides Seedbearer friend Ander. And it overwhelms her and she cries. an the first paragraph is great. But in the next few, it appears that the pain is ebbing and Eureka's tears slow to a silent fall. That's not how people cry when they're in that much pain, especially not when they are described to cry with the built up pain and suffering of no one else on earth. I feel like more detail, more time, more updates should have been put into Eureka's tears. It was a bit of a letdown.
All that said, Eureka was interesting and caring and easy to like. So was Cat, though a bit annoying. My favorite characters were actually the twins, probably because they were the only 4-year olds I've ever heard of that weren't actually exceptionally annoying. Not that most 4yos are bad, just a lot to deal with. The book was a little slow, but well thought out. The ending was satisfying and I've found I actually want Brooks to be found, despite the circumstance. Pick this book up next time you can. You'll like it. :)
The best way to describe the writing, in my view, was silly. It was so childish and dull at times I had to put it down. I did manage to finish it just out of curiosity and was glad when I finally finished because I have another book I wanted to start....).
To cry or not to cry that is the question! Silly!
The one character that I liked some was Ander, but that was probably because he was so mysterious and good looking.
I dont think I'll be buying anymore books to this trilogy.
Lauren Kate has such an incredible ability to draw you in, defining characters and scenes so that you're almost watching the book instead of just reading the words. Yet, she still somehow manages to incorporate surprises and not be transparent in what comes next.
The heroine is amazing and the supporting characters are developed in the exact way that the main character knows them... So as the reader you aren't figuring something out and just waiting for the heroine to catch on.
There's mystery and intrigue, twists and turns, and characters you can genuinely care about. I'm already waiting for the next book in the series!!