Waterfall by Lauren KateMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I enjoyed this book. However I don't feel as though it was as good as the first one.
If you read Teardrop and enjoyed it, you should read this just to know how things turned out. Waterfall picks up where Teardrop left off, but I think that the potential for an awesome story line that is just as good as the first got left behind somewhere. Don't get me wrong, this is still a really good book and totally worth reading; but where I read Teardrop in a day, I read Waterfall in a week.
The description of the setting and characters was great, as it normally is in Lauren Kate's writing. You can get a clear image in your mind as to how the world looks and how the characters interact in it. We got introduced to some new characters in this book. Solon - the lost Seedbearer : He was a fairly interesting character, and nothing like what I expected. we also met his assistants Filiz and The Poet, but they are only secondary/tertiary characters and don't have a huge role to play. The Gossipwitches were interesting and were written in a way that they had an air of mystery about them. I think that these were all well written and they had some really good dialogue, that added another layer to their personalities and characters.
On the other hand, by the end of the first book I cared about what happen to the characters, and therefore had a reason to want to pick up this book; I wanted to see how they were going to fix things. I didn't feel like there was anything in this book to draw you back in to caring about the characters, especially if it had been a while since you read Teardrop and didn't re-read it before starting Waterfall. Also I feel like there are things that are said or happen in the book that answer some questions but raise others, and these don't appear to be explained.
The ending felt rather rushed. I don't feel like you end up know if Eureka succeeded or not with saving everyone, and making things right. Eureka suddenly became a very different kind of person in the last quarter of the book. She went from someone that cares about her family and friends to someone that seemed really detached from the people that are there to help and support her. We never know what happen to Ander, cat and the twins either.
Despite what now seems to be a long list of negatives, I would still recommend this book.
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