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 Stephanie on

3 of 5 stars

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In all honesty, I am late to this Beautiful Creatures bandwagon. The publishing companies have succeeded in their elaborate ploy to make a movie of a book to get me to read it first. So when I saw the cutesy stand at Barnes & Noble directing me to this series I took a peek … and immediately put it back down. It wasn’t until much later (I.E. a Scholastic Warehouse Sale and my resolution to read books before watching the movie) that I eventually gave this book a shot. Welcome to the New Year! Welcome to YA Southern Gothic! Welcome to Beautiful Creatures, Stephanie!

And it wasn’t too shabby.

I’ll be the first one to admit that paranormal romance is usually not my thing. I dabbled briefly in it during the Twilight upsurge, and immediately backed away. Beautiful Creatures does have that super paranormal romance, a la Romeo and Juliet style. But luckily for Garcia and Stohl, I am a fan of Shakespeare and fated lovers.

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