ayshin's review against another edition
5.0
I was a bit tentative about reading this book. I tried to read it once before but couldn't get into it but I gave it another chance and loved it!!!!! The characters had more depth to them, regardless of what happened. Do I think it's better than Twilight? In certain aspects, it is but how can you compare the world of casters to the world of vampires and say that one world is better than the other?
The authors have written this world beautifully and made it into another character. I'm looking forward to reading the next one!!! :):)
The authors have written this world beautifully and made it into another character. I'm looking forward to reading the next one!!! :):)
lindaunconventionalbookworms's review against another edition
5.0
Such a beautiful, wonderous story! I want to learn a lot more about Ethan and Lena! And I really like how they stuck together, no matter what.
mmmmmmmbooks's review against another edition
0.25
Did this as part of a 'read all the books on my shelves that I've had but not read for over a decade' challenge. It left me with only one question: why is the YA boom so obsessed in romanticising confederate soldiers? Also super fun and really cool to see direct evidence as to why I had the WORST body image issues in my teen years. I'll hand it to the writers this truly is a piece from the mid-late 2000s.
+0.25 stars because the writing was at least coherent
+0.25 stars because the writing was at least coherent
treyhurst's review against another edition
2.0
thought it had a few things going for it but overall it’s just not that good. shhh i can’t say that because my boyfriend made me read it cause it’s his favorite book. nobody tell him i gave it 2 stars. honestly might read the sequel or at least start it cause cause i’m slightly intrigued by the cliffhanger.
dubzy22's review against another edition
2.0
The concept is sort of interesting, but this book is not well-written, and the characters engage entirely too much in "I know stuff but I'm not gonna tell you" games with each other. It's annoying.
agrutle's review against another edition
5.0
Watching T.V. one day I saw a preview for a movie, Beautiful Creatures. I was drawn to it and I knew that it sounded familiar so I looked it up and sure enough it was based on a book. I immediately started reading it and was so beyond charmed by the way I felt right at home in this book. The whole book is based in the south and it read so fluently southern for me that I felt like I needed to get a glass of sweet tea and set on the veranda with a fan.
Ethan Wate lives a normal teenage life. He's on the basket ball team, he makes good grades and is in general a good boy. His mama died last year and that caused his father to hide himself away in the study writing a book, and leaving the general care of Ethan to Amma, their housekeeper for lack of a better word. Amma was always there, she called Ethan her boy, so in reality she was much more than a house keeper. Right before school started Ethan having dreams, but they were so real that he woke up feeling like it was a memory rather than a dream and waking up with mud under your fingernails from clawing at the ground in the 'dream' only led him to believe he was living them, not just dreaming them. There was a girl in these dreams too but he could never quite see her, he just knew he had to save her.
Fast forward to a school day and there is a new girl at school. This is cause for national holiday cause people just don't move to Gatlin. He doesn't know who she is but he is drawn to her like a moth to a flame. The poor girl is weird, she drives hearse to school and to top it all of she's Macon Ravenwood's niece. That man has been around forever but he's a shut in so no one has ever actually seen him. That makes Lena Duchannes an outcast on site.
Soon, though Lena and Ethan are like peas and carrots. They together all the time, despite the fact that both Amma and Uncle Macon don't think its a good idea for them to let their young love grow.
Lena lets Ethan in on her secret, she's a caster and on her 16th birthday, she'll be claimed as light or dark. Uncle Macon is her protector, surprisingly though, Ethan can protect her too. In the end all Lena wants is to be a normal teenage girl that worries about going to dances and hanging out with her boyfriend. Sometimes though we don't get what we want.
I loved the southern charm that so many of the characters exuded. Uncle Macon was one of my favorite characters as was Amma. I fell in love with the way Ethan and Lena were just easy together when it was just them. The rush and excitement of the action scenes. This was a great book and I am certainly looking forward to what book two as well as what the movie have in store for us. Check it out and don't forget we have a link to the preview for the movie on our blog as well!
Ethan Wate lives a normal teenage life. He's on the basket ball team, he makes good grades and is in general a good boy. His mama died last year and that caused his father to hide himself away in the study writing a book, and leaving the general care of Ethan to Amma, their housekeeper for lack of a better word. Amma was always there, she called Ethan her boy, so in reality she was much more than a house keeper. Right before school started Ethan having dreams, but they were so real that he woke up feeling like it was a memory rather than a dream and waking up with mud under your fingernails from clawing at the ground in the 'dream' only led him to believe he was living them, not just dreaming them. There was a girl in these dreams too but he could never quite see her, he just knew he had to save her.
Fast forward to a school day and there is a new girl at school. This is cause for national holiday cause people just don't move to Gatlin. He doesn't know who she is but he is drawn to her like a moth to a flame. The poor girl is weird, she drives hearse to school and to top it all of she's Macon Ravenwood's niece. That man has been around forever but he's a shut in so no one has ever actually seen him. That makes Lena Duchannes an outcast on site.
Soon, though Lena and Ethan are like peas and carrots. They together all the time, despite the fact that both Amma and Uncle Macon don't think its a good idea for them to let their young love grow.
Lena lets Ethan in on her secret, she's a caster and on her 16th birthday, she'll be claimed as light or dark. Uncle Macon is her protector, surprisingly though, Ethan can protect her too. In the end all Lena wants is to be a normal teenage girl that worries about going to dances and hanging out with her boyfriend. Sometimes though we don't get what we want.
I loved the southern charm that so many of the characters exuded. Uncle Macon was one of my favorite characters as was Amma. I fell in love with the way Ethan and Lena were just easy together when it was just them. The rush and excitement of the action scenes. This was a great book and I am certainly looking forward to what book two as well as what the movie have in store for us. Check it out and don't forget we have a link to the preview for the movie on our blog as well!
lynseyisreading's review against another edition
2.0
This was a nice audio production, and I enjoyed the novelty of a male protagonist for a change, but by crikey it was slow and long-winded. Too slow and too long. I just couldn't get excited about it. The premise was nice, the characters were nice, the romance was nice, so I didn't totally hate it. It was just all together too much niceness and not enough action for my liking.