Reviewed by reveriesociety_ on
I've read Fallen, (only Fallen), and I didn't like it. I didn't think the way Lauren Kate writes is for me, so I just refrained from reading the other books. But then I found this one at my local library.
A girl who can never cry or something bad will happen? Cool!
But I had more than one issue with this book that prevented me from enjoying it.
1. The Insta-Love
Ander has watched Eureka during her whole life. He's learned more things about her than she even knows about herself. I guess, in a weird way, it makes sense he'd be kind of infatuated.
But on Eureka's side, she's just seen this guy, what, two or three times, and then then fourth or fifth she's decided she loves him? What's this?
2. Adults exist to make Eureka look good
Aside from the morbid fact that every adult woman in this book dies, the other adults are only there so Eureka can complain about no one truly understanding her.
3. Eureka's grief
I think this is a delicate topic, since everyone grieves in their own way. I'd never want to know what it's like to lose your mother. But at my own risk, I dare say I don't think I'd act this way. I'd expect this from mother who has lost their child, because that must be like a whole unique kind of hell. But this... an accident? It seemed a bit excessive at times. Especially because it's just Ander the one who she seems to have any interest in being with; a boy she is sure is stalking him, and not her family, or her friends. In a story like this, you cna't have the character being this bland all the time. I kept waiting for her to do something that would make me really root for her, but it never happened.
4. Eureka has problems
*cough* The mental kind *cough* When she confronts Ander about his stalking habits, and he actually admits to them, going so far to detail some things about even her friends, Eureka is like... Well, he's a stalker, but he's cute. So I'm just gonna go to the police station, pretend I'm interested in getting him arrested, and then find some satisfaction in catching him watching me.
5. The disappointment 1
When at one point Brooks, Eureka's best friend tells her everything tht is wrong with her, everything we readers want her to realize and would be willing to hit her with, he's dismissed later. So, where did that all go?!
6. The disappointment 2
Particularly, when shit hits the fan at last, the results are kind of like this:
Instead of
And as a last note, I did not appreciate the story treating the grand revelation of the curse she has as something THAT grand. I mean, seriously, she was given a book where the girl in the story, cries a whole continent to the ocean. Her significant other's name was Leander.
Eureka's mother had always told her not to cry, and she remembers this she reads about the girl but doesn't make any connection?
Wut?
And at considering Leander and Ander all she has to say is: They even had similar names. And continues reading.
*facepalm*
Reading updates
- Started reading
- 8 February, 2015: Finished reading
- 8 February, 2015: Reviewed