Beautiful Creatures (

, #1

by ,

hardcover with dust jacket, 563 pages

English language

Published Jan. 1, 2010 by Little, Brown and Co..

ISBN:
978-0-316-04267-3
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Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.

Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.

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reviewed Beautiful Creatures ( by Kami Garcia (Caster Chronicles, #1)

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I picked this up because it was the Kindle Deal of the Day, and the movie is out. And it isn't a bad read--it's interesting to see this done from the non-supernatural AND male point of view. (I guess Twilight starts out as being from the non-supernatural point of view, too. Actually, I would recommend this book to anyone who liked Twilight, though I didn't like that and DID like this. It's got the same overblown-teenage-feelings, things-out-of-our-control, high-school-sucks vibe, but in the South and with better writing. And basically-witches instead of basically-vampires.)

I'd call it "urban fantasy," but it's very rural. Maybe "modern fantasy."

Subjects

  • Supernatural -- Fiction
  • Psychic ability -- Fiction
  • Love -- Fiction
  • High schools -- Fiction
  • Schools -- Fiction
  • Dreams -- Fiction
  • Recluses -- Fiction
  • South Carolina -- Fiction
  • South Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction