Teardrop

Title: Teardrop (Teardrop #1)

Author: Lauren Kate

Genre: Young Adult, Mythology, Magic, Teen

My rating: 2.5/5 stars

Well, well, well. What do we have here? Why, it is yet another vague and tedious romance by Lauren Kate. Surprise, surprise. Who would've guessed right?

Teardrop is about- well, I'm sure you've already guessed. A 'special' girl, who apparently is destined to do great things. A 'mysterious' stalker whom she feels 'strangely attracted' to. Her funny and understanding best friend. Stalker dude's family who wants to kill her but then stalker dude daringly defies his family *sarcastic gasp* to save his true love. Sound familiar?

Half of the plot was so stereotypical and clichéd that I wasn't even bothered to roll my eyes. The other half sounded half-promising but was completely ambiguous, in trueLauren Kate style. The characters were incessantly annoying and I was constantly being bored to tears.

Eureka Boudreaux's (that name...) mother is killed by a rogue wave as the daughter and mother are driving on a bridge. Miraculously, (yeah, right) she is left alive, with only broken wrists and a deaf left ear. Eureka is left devastated and even attempts suicide. Her suicide attempt is totally unintentional of course, because there is no way there can be a protagonist who is genuinely of an unstable mind. Of course.

Eureka is left mourning only with a compelling mystery and aching heart and her best friend is acting strange. She has a 'beautiful stalker' and must deal with her adolescent life. How tragic. NOT.

Eureka: (Am I the only one who doesn't understand the story of how she got her name?) I can't make up my mind about her. I can try and emphatize with her loss but her personality isn't very appealing. I hope nobody looks to her as a heroine or role model. Eureka was overly whiny, ungrateful and just plain irritating. What I mean, is that if I wanted to read petulant complaints from a hormonal teenager, I would simply read my own diary entries or conversed with that whinging girl from school.

Ander: He was supposed to be the main male protagonist but he was hardly in the book at all. He was all shadowy and dodgy yet Eureka kissed him like, two minutes after he entered her bedroom- without permission, 'cause apparently he's a badass rebel like that.

Ugh, writing this review is evoking violent fits of annoyance and rage or maybe it's just me. I'll finish this tomorrow but right now, I need like 2 pounds of chocolate.

P.S. The cover is gorgeous. And I wish the book was too :(