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Beautiful Creatures | March 6, 2013

by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl (Little, Brown and Company, Dec. 2009)

A boy who yearns for the world outside his small southern town falls in love with a young witch (called a “Caster” in this universe) who will soon be claimed by The Light or The Dark. It’s a familiar love story told in unique and exciting ways by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. These authors are fantastic world-builders who manage to create a believable mythology and familiar community in the first novel of this popular YA series, now a major motion picture. Ethan and Lena are charming and their love story is a believable depiction of young love. The Southern setting and the flashbacks to a tragic story from the Civil War that may have repercussions for our young protagonists differentiate this from other love stories.

The novel ends in such a strong cliffhanger that there’s nothing a reader can do but rush right out and pick up the next novel in the series, ‘Beautiful Darkness’. This reader can assure you he has done just that, and like ‘Beautiful Creatures’, it was oh so worth it.

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