A review by thepaperwitch
Beautiful Darkness by Margaret Stohl, Kami Garcia

2.0

The book takes trudging through to get to a decently exciting middle, followed by a little more trudge, then a decently, but fairly predictable ending. The only reason I am still planning to read the next book in the series is because a) I don't like leaving books behind and b) the adults and the background content are still what grab my attention. I really am not very interested in either Ethan or Lena or their teenage angst, but I am interested in the Caster world they are involved in--especially the librarians!

As for the writing, I'm afraid I'm not too satisfied with the need to repeatedly re-describe the situations rather than just moving the story along. It gets held up in re-repeating of known information. It has the making of a tv show that is desperate to keep viewers well into the 5th season--by keeping the nearly unbelievable chain of events (and that says a lot, given this is fantasy novel) going rather than letting them end gracefully. I am actually preferring the movie over the series so far.