There were no surprises in GatlinCounty.
We were pretty much the epicenter of the middle of nowhere.
At least, that's what I thought.
Turns out, I couldn't have been more wrong.
There was a curse.
There was a girl.
And in the end, there was a grave.
Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's 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 Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. 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.
In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything.
I give Beautiful Creatures a 3.5 out of 5 stars.
I was really excited to read this book and I thought the beginning was great, but after that things started going very flat.
The whole idea of seeing a girl in his dreams and things appearing from his dreams appearing when he woke up was both creepy and cool. I was very excited when he finally met Lena and I thought she was a cool character. I thought she was sarcastic and a loner which I thought would make the book more interesting.
Truth is - she was just a little over sensitive. I felt like Ethan and Lena fell in love too quickly for my taste and it just made it very unrelistic to me. I also thought that Ethan just took it a little too lightly when finding out Lena's secret.
I felt like some of the characters were just added in there for the hell of it and didn't really make me like them. The only charcaters that I truly like were Macon and Boo.
Despite all this - I liked the idea of the story and the ending really caught my attention. Hopefully Beautiful Darkness will be better.
