Beautiful Creatures

electronic resource

English language

Published 2009 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.

ISBN:
978-0-316-07128-4
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OCLC Number:
500919962

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In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.

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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."