Beautiful Creatures (Book 1) by Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl

Beautiful Creatures (Book 1) (Beautiful Creatures)

by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

*This edition features exclusive movie cover art*

A brand new film tie-in edition of the bestselling love story, Beautiful Creatures - a romance that is bound to capture the hearts of Twilight fans everywhere. This edition ties in to the major new Warner Brothers and Alcon Entertainment blockbuster film starring Emma Thompson, Jeremy Irons, Alice Englert and Alden Ehrenreich.

In Ethan Wate's hometown there lies the darkest of secrets . . .

There is a girl.
Slowly, she pulled the hood from her head. Green eyes, black hair. Lena Duchannes.

There is a curse.
On the Sixteenth Moon, the Sixteenth Year, the Book will take what it's been promised. And no one can stop it.

In the end, there is a grave.
Lena and Ethan become bound together by a deep, powerful love. But Lena is cursed and on her sixteenth birthday, her fate will be decided.

Ethan never even saw it coming.

Praise for Beautiful Creatures:

'Watch out Twilight and Hunger Games' - The Guardian

'Move over Twilight, there's a new supernatural saga in town.' - E!

'This novel has been generating Twilight-level buzz.' - Teen Vogue

About the authors:
@kamigarcia is a superstitious American southerner who can make biscuits by hand and pies from scratch! She attended George Washington University and is a teacher and reading specialist. She lives in Los Angeles, California with her family.
@mstohl has written and designed many successful video games, which is why her two beagles are named Zelda and Kirby. She has degrees from Yale and Stanford Universities in the US and has also studied in the prestigious creative writing department at UEA, Norwich. She lives in Santa Monica, California with her family.

www.beautifulcreaturesthebook.com

Also available in the Beautiful Creatures series: Beautiful Darkness, Beautiful Chaos and Beautiful Redemption.

*Don't miss the brand new DANGEROUS CREATURES series, set in the world of Beautiful Creatures*

Exclusive ebook novellas also available:
Dream Dark
Dangerous Dream

Reviewed by tellemonstar on

5 of 5 stars

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I enjoyed this. I haven’t read much ‘Gothic fiction’ before, but I thought Beautiful Creatures was beautifully crafted by the authors.

The world building, both of the town of Gatlin & Ravenwood House, but also Ethan’s internal world, was very well done. There aren’t a lot of YA romances where the viewpoint is of the male protagonist, but I think Ethan suited the role very well. He was a reliable storyteller, and his point of view was an interesting one.

Normally I think teen-romance is kind of meh, but it was well handled in Beautiful Creatures – especially since Lena wasn’t exactly happy about meeting him in the first place. But it was nice to see the relationship blossom over time, as opposed to them having known each other for about a week and going “I love you”. It was nice to see them learn things about each other and each other’s families, and for Ethan to actually fall for the real Lena, not just the one he’s being seeing in dreams.

The ‘Caster’ side of things was very interesting, and the choosing between Light versus Dark magic issue was a nice element that you don’t often see in YA fantasy. It’s usually ‘we’re the good guys, those are the bad guys’ so to discover that not everything is as it seems and that choosing to be Dark or Light is a difficult and tricky path to have to walk on, was nice to see.

There were some pacing issues, which had more to do with small parts of the plot that maybe could have been fused into other parts a little more, and a few bits edited out perhaps. Even with the plot-line being as intricate as it was, the pacing in some areas could have been a little faster.

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