Beautiful Creatures is a young-adult fantasy novel written by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. It was published by Little, Brown on December 2009. Amazon.com named it, one of the top ten books of 2009 and the top pick for best teen book. A sequel, Beautiful Darkness, was released on October 12th, 2010.
1- Beautiful Creatures [December...
more »Beautiful Creatures is a young-adult fantasy novel written by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. It was published by Little, Brown on December 2009. Amazon.com named it, one of the top ten books of 2009 and the top pick for best teen book. A sequel, Beautiful Darkness, was released on October 12th, 2010.
1- Beautiful Creatures [December 2009]
2- Beautiful Darkness [October 12th, 2010]
3- Beautiful Chaos [October 18, 2011]
4- Beautiful Redemption [October 23, 2012]
The book focuses on the life of Ethan Lawson Wate, who is having nightmares of a girl named Lena Duchannes, who just moved from Gatlin County to live with her Uncle, Macon Ravenwood.
Plot:
Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small southern town of Gatlin has ever seen. Lena has wavy black hair with large green eyes. She wears a necklace made of pieces of junk and carries around a tattered journal. She is gossiped about, picked on and neglected because of the fact that she is the niece of Macon Melchizedek Ravenwood (Otherwise known as Old Man Ravenwood), the town's shut in. Lena is 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 Lawson Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape Gatlin, is haunted by dreams in which he is trying to save a beautiful girl he has never met. He has brown hair and blue eyes and lives with his care taker and house keeper Amarie "Amma" Treadeau and his depressed father who has shut himself in his study since his wife's death. 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.
The two also find a locket, which is known to have been given to Genevieve Katherine Duchannes (Lena's Descendant) by Ethan Carter Wate (Ethan's Descendant). Interestingly, whenever Lena and Ethan touch the piece of jewellery, they see different visions. Each of the visions involve Genevieve and Ethan.
In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything...
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