Eureka went for a little day trip with Brooks and her twin half-siblings on Brooks’ family sloop, and they got into a situation the twins went overboard, Brooks went after them and Eureka followed, forgetting to drop the anchor beforehand. Selene’s narrative then made some ominous references to an apocalypse on the horizon, and the translation for that section ended.Įureka’s ‘will-they-won’t-they’ friend Brooks meanwhile had been mood swinging from being kind, sweet & caring and making moves on Eureka, to acting like a complete arse.

When Selene & Leander had been about to leave the gossipwitches started to say something about a curse, so Leander went to smooth things over with Delphine, the gossipwitches then started cackling about ‘fearing the heartbreak in maiden tears’ and how it could bring oceans crashing into the earth. Leander had previously had a relationship with Delphine,a powerful sorceress, whom he said had bewitched him and had not taken the breakup well. Selene was betrothed to Atlas, the king of Atlantis, but didn’t love him and ran away with his younger brother Leander the night before her wedding. A psychic called Madame Blavatsky managed to translate some of the ‘Book of Love’ (the weird old tome in an unknown language Eureka’s mother left to Eureka in her will) before her untimely, and shockingly violent, death, and it seemed to be the story of one of Eureka’s ancestors, Selene, who lived in the island of Atlantis before it sank into the ocean.

Even after the death of her mother, Eureka locked her emotions inside and didn’t break down. At the same time, it kind of made sense to Eureka, her mother Diana had always forbidden Eureka to cry. Eureka was obviously astounded by this revelation (who wouldn’t be) and also a bit sceptical. So, in the rather dramatic conclusion to ‘Teardrop’, we discovered that our heroine Eureka’s ancestors were part of the ‘Tearline’ this means that Eureka has the power to raise the lost city of Atlantis, by flooding the earth with her tears. If you haven’t read ‘ Teardrop‘ the first book in this series by Lauren Kate, you may want to read that first, and stop reading this review, because there will be spoilers it was a long novel so I’m going to summarise the main plot points in preparation for the sequel.

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