Beautiful Creatures Reviews

SUN, APRIL 18 at 2 pm - Meet Kami & Margie at Borders Glendale (CA) RSVP here: http://bit.ly/grbeautifulc Beautiful Creatures is exactly what I aspire to be as a human being: pretty, funny, and smart all in one package. Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl have written a seamless and utterly absorbing tale of a cursed romance: a Mortal boy who falls for a Caster girl in a small Southern town. Meaningful thoughts about love, loyalty, and prejudice unfold from this intricately parsed novel: those who love books will delight in the literary references, those who love love will swoon over the star-crossed couple, and those who love good writing will greedily devour every carefully chosen word. Better yet, get the print version and the audio, both. The music and sound effects (particularly for the dream sequences) in the audiobook version add yet another dimension to the Gothic atmosphere the authors have built. Another book for the loaner shelf*. - - - 12/7/09 observation... BC is on about 73% more to-be-read shelves as a week ago. Let's see what # they hit next week (currently 1733 with 128 currently-reading) 12/9/09 watching it... up by 100 tbrs in 2 days! 12/11/09 I think it'll hit 2000 tomorrow. Man, I love watching things trend. Like birdwatching.

I acquired a copy of Beautiful Creatures at ALA from a teen who was my super hero. She had an extra copy and gave one to me and so I have to say Thankyouthankyouthankyou to you (I'm sorry I don't know your name) for your random act of kindness that I will pay forward. I haven't been able to put this book down. It's absloutely fantastic. The combination of tension, humour, mystery and the paranormal have made this a real page-turner. I love the style of writing and the authors have created characters that are real and people you want to care about. I'm a little more than half way through and I'm getting concerned because the book is going to end soon!!! I just don't want that to happen. I really hope this team puts out another book really soon (like tomorrow :)) so I can read it! The other thing about this book is the role of the library and librarian. It's made me laugh becuase these ladies have it dead on especially when the Aunts discover there are computers at the library. I laughed out loud! Genealogy also plays a part and it's made me think about getting back into it and tackling my own family tree again. In the end all I can say is everyone needs to pick this one up.

This was FUN! I vaguely remember seeing the movie many, many years back. Thinking the primes was awesome I got myself all four books; but never got around to reading them. Now I'm kind of glad it took me so long to get around to them. I know, most people say the opposite thing, but I'm glad I can't recall everything form the movie, it made the book so much more interesting. I knew the ending, but all the other details were fussy, so this was kind of like a refresher - just way more detailed and so much better that the movie. I really enjoyed the narration - the fact that this book was written by two women and still the male protagonist was so true and realistic just blew me away! The humor and the writing style was so addicting, I caught myself a few times mimicking the sarcasm. I must say this was an unexpected jewel. And quoting my friend Deedi: "Do not watch the movie!!" "Ugh the movie murdered this book"

This has some Issues™ and I didn't expect to like it this much, but honestly... this is just exactly what I needed right now and I had so much fun with it. Also, tbh, I'm glad I saw the movie first because Alden Ehrenreich is literally the perfect Ethan and I can't be convinced otherwise.

“The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.” I don't know why I read this book. Beautiful Creatures sounds promising at first just like Twilight, a forbidden love story where two souls find each other in the darkest moment of their lives. But I didn't like Ethan, he's uninteresting and can't even deliver the story properly. That made this book so boring and I didn't want to continue around the half way through it. Anyway, I wanted to know about that little riddle about the curse and why everyone seems to be alerted by this cause, so I kept reading. And I was doomed. “Darkness, real darkness, was more than just a lack of light.” What I found out at the end was very disappointing I didn't want to continue this series. I asked myself about why I read BC in the first place if the ending just goes back and meets the beginning again. I read it in vain and my mood was ruined. For Lena, your power was very interesting but when you get involved with Ethan, it exactly goes downhill. I now understand why the movie isn't popular, because of many things being so messed up and unbelievably scattered. “Even lost in the darkness, my heart will find you.” Will I read the next book? No way. Even though I already bought the first three books, I feel like this is a bummer and I don't want to waste my time on this series anymore. “You're so full of crap, you could pass for a toilet.” 2 stars for reminding me of Twilight. Thank you!

My blurb (sent to the editors of the book): “Beautiful Creatures is gorgeously crafted, atmospheric, and original. I devoured it.”

Beautiful Creatures is one of those classic YA series that I somehow never got around to picking up until now. I am so glad that I prioritized it this year because I ended up really enjoying it! I had previously seen and loved the film so I didn't go into it completely blind, but I'm happy to report that the story held up after all of these years. One of the most refreshing elements of the book is that it's told from Ethan (the powerless mortal)'s perspective. At the time, the majority of YA paranormal and fantasy fiction were from female perspectives and the females weren't typically the powerful ones. It was really interesting to experience our narrator's helplessness as he's forced to react to the decisions of those around him instead of being the one faced with the tough choices. There's no doubt that the two reasons I enjoyed this book so much are 1) I found the Caster lore to be really interesting and 2) I loved the Southern Gothic setting. I thought all the characters were well developed, and I especially loved Lena's uncle Macon. The one thing I wasn't totally sold on was the romance. I did appreciate how focused Lena seemed to be on her future instead of pining after Ethan and so, I never felt a very strong connection between the two of them (though I'm looking forward to seeing how it develops in the future installments). I also enjoyed the illustrations and that two of Amma's recipes are included at the end of the book. I'm definitely going to be making her cookie pie at some point! Buddy read for the Paranormal Book Club with Alexa, Rachel & DJ

Don't excpect much and you won't be disappointed - the moto of this twilight-type young-adult. To give this book a justice, it does have everything genre requires: moody teens, school ball, dark dangerous romance and magical mystery. Southern states setting makes it a bit intresting, but characters are too childish for an adult readers. Like, the fight with the school bullies takes way more pages than the battle against the supernatural evil. And the narrator here is a boy who falls for a witch-girl not vice versa, which is quite unusual for such novels.

Gorgeous, dark, lush, and gothic. It's so refreshing to read a paranormal romance told from the point of view of the guy, and Ethan is a fantastic narrator. Through his eyes, Gatlin comes alive in all its small town glory, full of whispers and secrets and prejudices (the Civil War tidbits are so interesting). Ethan + Lena makes for sexy and sweet romance. Amma, Ethan's no-nonsense grandmother, is an awesome character. And this line gives me goosebumps every time I read it: "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." Agh, love. <3

Beautiful Creatures (Caster Chronicles, #1), Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl Beautiful Creatures is an American young adult novel written by authors Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl and the first book in the Caster Chronicles series. The book was published on December 1, 2009. The story takes place in a small town in Gatlin, South Carolina with a boy named Ethan Wate. The town isn’t one of those storybook towns you read about in fairy tales, it’s, as Ethan describes it, isolating and suffocating because everyone knows everyone. Ethan dreams of escaping after high school to the farthest college away he can get to. Ethan’s mother was killed in a car accident and after that his father became a withdrawn, absent dad, holed away in his study. Though Ethan does have the company of his housekeeper Amma, who had been there to raise his dad when he was growing up. Amma has the gift of foresight, and she is in some ways the town considers her the modern day witch. Ethan had repeatedly had a dream about this girl falling, and he tries to catch her but is always just slightly out of reach. When he wakes up, him and his sheets covered in dirt and mud, he smells rosemary and lemons, and on his iPod he hears the song, “Sixteen Moons” a song he has never ever heard up until the dreams started. Later that day at school Ethan meets a girl named Lena Duchannes, the new girl who is the niece of the infamous Macon Ravenwood. Macon is a reclusive, mysterious owner of the Ravenwood Manor, an grand old plantation house from the times of the civil war, maybe even before then. At school, Ethan suddenly hears “Sixteen Moons” and follows the sound to a music room where he finds Lena playing the song on the cello. He recognizes her as the girl he has dreamt about saving and is shocked to smell rosemary and lemon. He cautiously approaches Lena and tells her about his dream he’s been having about her. She denies knowing about anything, when Ethan tries to point out the scratches on her hand coinciding with the dream. Over the next week Ethan slowly gains Lena’s trust by supporting her when students start teasing and bullying her. They end up getting close and making a real connection, even so close that they start to develop the ability to communicate telepathically, no joke. Lena later tells Ethan that her whole family, including her, have special powers, referring to them as casters, originated from their ability to cast spells. Ethan eventually learns to accept and even appreciate this fact after a while, because it’s a part of Lena. Ethan meets a girl who approaches him at the convenient shop and introduces herself as Lena’s cousin named Ridley, who takes Ethan to Ravenwood manor. Ridley’s real motives to taking Ethan to the manor is to sneak in and gain access to the house. Ridley becomes angry at her family and declares that Lena will soon be “claimed” on her sixteenth birthday. Lena knows Ridley speaks the truth. The worst part of it all is that she will not have any say over if she will be claimed by the dark or the light. Ethan ends up losing consciousness but not before he hears Lena tell Ridley to leave her “boyfriend” alone, or else.The story takes place in a small town in Gatlin, South Carolina with a boy named Ethan Wate. The town isn’t one of those storybook towns you read about in fairy tales, it’s, as Ethan describes it, isolating and suffocating because everyone knows everyone. Ethan dreams of escaping after high school to the farthest college away he can get to. Ethan’s mother was killed in a car accident and after that his father became a withdrawn, absent dad, holed away in his study. Though Ethan does have the company of his housekeeper Amma, who had been there to raise his dad when he was growing up. Amma has the gift of foresight, and she is in some ways the town considers her the modern day witch. Ethan had repeatedly had a dream about this girl falling, and he tries to catch her but is always just slightly out of reach. When he wakes up, him and his sheets covered in dirt and mud, he smells rosemary and lemons, and on his iPod he hears the song, “Sixteen Moons” a song he has never ever heard up until the dreams started. ... تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز دهم ماه فوریه سال2016میلادی عنوان: موجودات زیبا: کتاب اول از سری تاریخ نگاری کستر؛ نویسندگان: کامی گارسیا؛ مارگارت استول؛ موضوع داستانهای نویسندگان ایالات متحده آمریکا - سده21م موجودات زیبا رمان فانتزی نوجوان، نوشته ی: «کامی گارسیا» و «مارگارت استول» است؛ این کتاب نخستین کتاب از سری «تاریخ نگاری کستر» است؛ داستان «ایتان ویت»، پسر نوجوان ساکن شهری کوچک به نام «گتلین» را پی میگیرد؛ او شیفته ی «لنا دوکنز»، دختری با جادوی توانمند، است؛ تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 20/04/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ 28/02/1401هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی