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Neptune's Tears (2013)

by Susan Waggoner(Favorite Author)

3.23 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0805096779 (ISBN13: 9780805096774)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

series

Timedance

review 1: Set in London 2218, during a time of great technological innovation and strong opposition from an eco-anarchist terroists setting bombs off world-wide. Zee is a 17-year-old American medical empath reaching the top of her game when she falls for young man who is also from another world. At a mere 218 pgs and a small height, Waggoner tries to pack as much world building without success, instead only gives glimpses of this future world. Along with weak world building is the weak character development and even lack of build for the romance with surprise ending that is more disappointing that revealing. The characters seem and act older, such as Zee is working in a hospital after training, and the age felt dded so as to marketing reasons. Overall, the story felt like a synopsis... more that was green lighted into a full story, but would have benefited from a slower paced storytelling.
review 2: Zee, a seventeen-year-old empathy lives and works in London in 2218 A.D. When she meets David during the course of her work, the attraction is immediate and mutual. Even though they spend time together, David resists intimacy with Zee and holds back secrets about his identity. While Zee fights for his love and tends to another patient, Mrs. Hart, who urges her to wring everything she can from her life, storing up experiences, she also realizes that she is able to sense natural disasters or terrorist attacks that will result in great loss of lives. At first she wants to hide this gift she may have as a diviner, but then she feels increasingly responsible for the lives of others, and agrees to use her talent for good. The book contains several scenes that will make readers' hearts ache while reminding them that love is worth taking risks, but in the end, the story never quite reaches its possibilities. David's well-kept secret isn't all that surprising in the end, and some of the characters that seemed important at first turned out to have little importance, after all. I liked the idea of someone such as Zee being able to ease the pain of others, but in the end, the book failed to deliver its promise. less

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