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illidia316's review against another edition
3.0
I have very mixed feelings about this book. I thought the first half was great, I loved the new characters that were introduced, and the new side stories that they brought to the picture. However, this book went extremely dark. So much death, so much killing. Eureka’s main focus changed partway through this book, and it ended up being very confusing. I listened to the ending 5 or 6 times and I still don’t understand what happened - I just know that I don’t care for the ending at all.
marleer's review against another edition
3.0
3.5 stars
I liked this book, but I thought the first one was a lot better. Waterfall was not such an easy read for me. I still love Lauren Kate's beautiful writing style, but you really have to be concentrated while reading to be able to understand every single word of it. Some very strange things also happened, which made the story a little hard to imagine. The ending was a little predictable to me - somehow I just knew this was going to happen - but I was satisfied with it.
I liked this book, but I thought the first one was a lot better. Waterfall was not such an easy read for me. I still love Lauren Kate's beautiful writing style, but you really have to be concentrated while reading to be able to understand every single word of it. Some very strange things also happened, which made the story a little hard to imagine. The ending was a little predictable to me - somehow I just knew this was going to happen - but I was satisfied with it.
greergreer's review against another edition
2.0
Kind of a wet fish of a book. It jumped all over the place.
rach_wings's review against another edition
adventurous
tense
medium-paced
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
1.0
sc104906's review against another edition
2.0
The prophecy must come to pass and Eureka may just lose it all before things can be righted. This is a darker conclusion to the Teardrop series.
Ehn. I felt like some of the feelings that were explored were retch worthy. Icky goopy teen puppy dog feelings. Ehn.
Ehn. I felt like some of the feelings that were explored were retch worthy. Icky goopy teen puppy dog feelings. Ehn.
cendi's review against another edition
4.0
Reviewed By: Paperback Princesses
Waterfall picks up where Teardrop left off. Eureka has cried all but one of her tears. The world has flooded, people are dead and now, she must travel across the ocean to find the lost Seedbearer to find out how to defeat Atlas, the evil king of Atlantis. She discovers the truth behind the Book of Love and her Tearline, as well as shocking truths about Ander and the rest of her family.
I was generous with this one.
I liked Teardrop. I was looking forward to Waterfall. This book was a mess. Thing’s are happening everywhere that simply don’t add up and are never explained. I felt as if Kate had ideas flying in from a thousand different directions, and she could have written a whole other series with the ideas introduced in this book. There are a lot of loose ends flying about. Thankfully there’s one more book to go, and I have faith she’ll finish on a good note (having read the Fallen series gives me hope).
Waterfall was okay. Good, but not nearly as good as Teardrop.
Will I read this again? I might have to, just to understand what was going on. I probably would reread it anyway, as I usually do right before another book in a series is released. And I definitely will finish the series. I think Lauren Kate is a good YA author, and like I said, I have faith she’ll clear everything up.
Waterfall picks up where Teardrop left off. Eureka has cried all but one of her tears. The world has flooded, people are dead and now, she must travel across the ocean to find the lost Seedbearer to find out how to defeat Atlas, the evil king of Atlantis. She discovers the truth behind the Book of Love and her Tearline, as well as shocking truths about Ander and the rest of her family.
I was generous with this one.
I liked Teardrop. I was looking forward to Waterfall. This book was a mess. Thing’s are happening everywhere that simply don’t add up and are never explained. I felt as if Kate had ideas flying in from a thousand different directions, and she could have written a whole other series with the ideas introduced in this book. There are a lot of loose ends flying about. Thankfully there’s one more book to go, and I have faith she’ll finish on a good note (having read the Fallen series gives me hope).
Waterfall was okay. Good, but not nearly as good as Teardrop.
Will I read this again? I might have to, just to understand what was going on. I probably would reread it anyway, as I usually do right before another book in a series is released. And I definitely will finish the series. I think Lauren Kate is a good YA author, and like I said, I have faith she’ll clear everything up.
kalona's review against another edition
3.0
Originally posted at: https://lindeay.wordpress.com/2015/05/08/waterfall/
I was very excited about reading Waterfall. Previously I’ve read Fallen by Lauren Kate and I did really like her style of writing. All though it is clearly stated in Waterfalls description that it is a second book in a series, I took a chance on reading it. And I did find it rather confusing. It was very hard to get a set picture of the environment they were in, they were swimming in one moment, climbing in the next and so on. It could have been made cleared when, how and why the environment around them were changing. Maybe a more descriptive language would have helped the reader through the transitions of different environments. The whole experience has some sort of Wonderlandish overtones, but in order for them to enthrall the reader they should have been clearer.
The name of the main character, Eureka, is very distracting. Her name pops out on the page, not in a good way. It is a sort of extravagant word/name that’s very eye-catching and creates an annoyance.
Another thing I didn’t care for was the love triangle, Eureka seemed to just shift between who she loved for no apparent reason at all. And as I am opposed to love triangles to begin with, I felt that this was something that could be cut as it did not give the story anything.
The story featured a lot of fantastic element, witches and prophecies among others, and they kind of flooded the story more than the water did. I wish it had been more focused on a few elements rather than bringing in so many.
It does feature quite a few quot worthy parts that are just beautiful and heart-achingly true:
“Letting go of someone you loved wasn’t hard. There was no word for what it was, because even if you didn’t let them go they were still gone.” pp.21
In the end, what kept me reading through this book was Lauren Kate’s simplistic writing style. Her style of writing is easy to read, which again makes her books very quick reads. In the future I will keep checking out Lauren Kate’s books, but I do not think I will venture into more books in the Teardrop-series.
I was very excited about reading Waterfall. Previously I’ve read Fallen by Lauren Kate and I did really like her style of writing. All though it is clearly stated in Waterfalls description that it is a second book in a series, I took a chance on reading it. And I did find it rather confusing. It was very hard to get a set picture of the environment they were in, they were swimming in one moment, climbing in the next and so on. It could have been made cleared when, how and why the environment around them were changing. Maybe a more descriptive language would have helped the reader through the transitions of different environments. The whole experience has some sort of Wonderlandish overtones, but in order for them to enthrall the reader they should have been clearer.
The name of the main character, Eureka, is very distracting. Her name pops out on the page, not in a good way. It is a sort of extravagant word/name that’s very eye-catching and creates an annoyance.
Another thing I didn’t care for was the love triangle, Eureka seemed to just shift between who she loved for no apparent reason at all. And as I am opposed to love triangles to begin with, I felt that this was something that could be cut as it did not give the story anything.
The story featured a lot of fantastic element, witches and prophecies among others, and they kind of flooded the story more than the water did. I wish it had been more focused on a few elements rather than bringing in so many.
It does feature quite a few quot worthy parts that are just beautiful and heart-achingly true:
“Letting go of someone you loved wasn’t hard. There was no word for what it was, because even if you didn’t let them go they were still gone.” pp.21
In the end, what kept me reading through this book was Lauren Kate’s simplistic writing style. Her style of writing is easy to read, which again makes her books very quick reads. In the future I will keep checking out Lauren Kate’s books, but I do not think I will venture into more books in the Teardrop-series.
rsp99's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5