Beautiful Darkness (Beautiful Creatures, Bk 2)
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Genres: Children's Books, Teen & Young Adult
Book Type: Hardcover
Author:
Genres: Children's Books, Teen & Young Adult
Book Type: Hardcover
Adriane S. (myhotstylist) reviewed on
Its extremely difficult to review this complex of a book without revealing key plot points. In short, it was a great addition to the series, and the ending has left it open for another book. So far there are 4 planned in this series.
All in all, I enjoyed the book very much, and look forward to the next release.
*********WARNING REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS************
2nd in series..
In Beautiful Darkness we get to follow Ethan Wate in his wild hunt to locate Lena after she dissapears with a mysterious new boy named John Breed. Sarafine is using all her power to summon the 17th moon to try and trick Lena into claiming herself as a Dark Caster. John haas convinced Lena to travel with him to the Great Barrier, a magical place where there is no light or dark, only pure magic.
Many many secrets are revealed in this book, the big one is that Lena used the Book of Moons to bring Ethan back to life (at the end of the first book, Beautiful Creatures) and in return the book took Macon's life in exchange. Lena feels terrible guilt and pain over this, and feels responsible for Macons death. Its with this she believes shes going dark, and turns to John Breed and runs from Ethan.
Ethan learns he is a Wayward, kind of like a human compass, to help Lena find her way out of the Darkness shes fallen in. Ethan takes this journey with his pal Link, RIdaly, and Olivia (Liv)-- Marians assistant Keeper-in-training.
Marion gives Ethan an Arclight to help them on their journey in finding Lena. They later on find out that Macon is inside the Archlight, and Ethan, Liv, Ridley and Link release him from the Arclight. Ethan also experiences visions along his way, (through the eyes of the caster cat, Lucille) and he finds out that his mother and Macon were once madly in love, and his mother was the one who put Macon in the Arclight right after he died in the first book. We also learn that it has been Ethans mother all along sending him the songs that only he can hear.
Sarafine punishes Ridley for helping Ethan, and strips her powers, They resuce Lena, and she claims only herself, neither light nor dark. Shes left with one green eye, and one gold.
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They spend massive amounts of time navigating through the tunnels under Gaitlin, which to me, became confusing at times. (Hence the darkness of the tunnels, the darkness in Lenas heart, and the darkness Ethan feels torn apart from his true love) The descriptions of the places they went, made it difficult for me to visualise in my mind while i was reading. I had only one other beef with the story. We learn that Macon has another sister, who was not mentioned in the first book on the Ravenwood family tree... who just shows up at the end to help Ethan get past the Blood Incubuses at the entrance to the cave. I even went to the family tree listed in the first book, and she was not on there. It kind of threw me through a loop, and made me wonder how or why the co-authors decided to do this. Seems they had a small hiccup. but owell.... Other than that, i loved the book, and cant wait to read the next installment, when the eighteeth moon appears........
All in all, I enjoyed the book very much, and look forward to the next release.
*********WARNING REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS************
2nd in series..
In Beautiful Darkness we get to follow Ethan Wate in his wild hunt to locate Lena after she dissapears with a mysterious new boy named John Breed. Sarafine is using all her power to summon the 17th moon to try and trick Lena into claiming herself as a Dark Caster. John haas convinced Lena to travel with him to the Great Barrier, a magical place where there is no light or dark, only pure magic.
Many many secrets are revealed in this book, the big one is that Lena used the Book of Moons to bring Ethan back to life (at the end of the first book, Beautiful Creatures) and in return the book took Macon's life in exchange. Lena feels terrible guilt and pain over this, and feels responsible for Macons death. Its with this she believes shes going dark, and turns to John Breed and runs from Ethan.
Ethan learns he is a Wayward, kind of like a human compass, to help Lena find her way out of the Darkness shes fallen in. Ethan takes this journey with his pal Link, RIdaly, and Olivia (Liv)-- Marians assistant Keeper-in-training.
Marion gives Ethan an Arclight to help them on their journey in finding Lena. They later on find out that Macon is inside the Archlight, and Ethan, Liv, Ridley and Link release him from the Arclight. Ethan also experiences visions along his way, (through the eyes of the caster cat, Lucille) and he finds out that his mother and Macon were once madly in love, and his mother was the one who put Macon in the Arclight right after he died in the first book. We also learn that it has been Ethans mother all along sending him the songs that only he can hear.
Sarafine punishes Ridley for helping Ethan, and strips her powers, They resuce Lena, and she claims only herself, neither light nor dark. Shes left with one green eye, and one gold.
********************
They spend massive amounts of time navigating through the tunnels under Gaitlin, which to me, became confusing at times. (Hence the darkness of the tunnels, the darkness in Lenas heart, and the darkness Ethan feels torn apart from his true love) The descriptions of the places they went, made it difficult for me to visualise in my mind while i was reading. I had only one other beef with the story. We learn that Macon has another sister, who was not mentioned in the first book on the Ravenwood family tree... who just shows up at the end to help Ethan get past the Blood Incubuses at the entrance to the cave. I even went to the family tree listed in the first book, and she was not on there. It kind of threw me through a loop, and made me wonder how or why the co-authors decided to do this. Seems they had a small hiccup. but owell.... Other than that, i loved the book, and cant wait to read the next installment, when the eighteeth moon appears........
