Beautiful Creatures By Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Ratings:3 of 5 stars
"Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures."
I feel so guilty giving this just 3 stars. So many people seem to like it and I feel like maybe I missed something important that everyone else got.
Ethan is counting the days until he can finally escape his mundane life in the
little Southern town of Gatlin. Nothing ever changes. Nothing ever happens. Until (yeah, you know you saw that coming) a girl named Lena, with curly black hair driving a hearse changes everything. She's different, that's for sure. And the people of Gatlin don't take kindly to people that are different. Ethan can't help but be drawn to her, like they have an unexplainable connection. Ethan soon finds out that different doesn't even begin to describe Lena's life. She has powers. Not only that, but everything Ethan thought he knew about Gatlin and his place in the town is turned upside down. Not to mention that Ethan has been having some pretty crazy realistic dreams that seem to be telling him that he's going to have to deal something even more dangerous and terrifying than the mothers of the
DAR and the resident Ice Queen (literally, she wins that title every homecoming), Savannah Snow and her adoring cronies.
Okay, here it my take on the story.
It is good. The story plays out well. It has a great and very colorful cast of well-defined characters.The setting is also well defined and very fitting to the story. Here is what I didn’t like. The length. Ugh.I can’t even tell you how long it took me to read this. It’s looong. Long, long, long.So overall, not bad but it just didn’t capture me. I found myself groaning at the thought of having to
read this ginormous book's sequel(so I might not read it at all).But don't let that stop you.
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