![]() ![]() But there has to be something sympathetic in a central character for readers to identify with and I couldn't see it in Teardrop. She is a girl stuck in grief for her mother and the story is told from her point of view, so you can understand it. Perhaps most importantly, I found Eureka impossible to like. I hate to say it, but there were quite a few things I didn't like about Teardrop. Why? And what is the inheritance from her mother? A locket, a letter, a mysterious stone and an ancient book in a language that nobody can read - what can these things possibly mean? Little does Eureka know it but her story is an old one, dating right back to the lost city of Atlantis. How? He insists that she's in terrible danger. This strange boy knows things about Eureka that nobody but her could know. ![]() ![]() But she still doesn't cry.īut then Anders appears. ![]() Alienated from her father, disliking her stepmother, awkward around even Cat and Brooks, her best friends, Eureka no longer takes pleasure in anything, even running. But now Diana is gone, washed from a bridge by a freak wave, and Eureka is locked behind an impenetrable wall of grief. This is a lesson Eureka learned at her beloved mother's knee. ![]()
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