Wendi C. (kurbanwriter) reviewed on 3/17/2010

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Beautiful Creatures in a spectacularly told story of young love between main characters Ethan Wate, the narrator, and Lena Duchannes, a spell caster. It is, essentially, a love story - but, it is also so much more than that. There's a ghost/vampire storyline, history, magic (light and dark), and romance (of course).

Both has secrets of their own...

Ethan lives with his shut-in father, longtime housekeeper, and both father and son are still grieving over the recent death of their wife and mother. Amma is...out there. She believes in warding off spirits and evil with herbs and charms, but she loves Ethan like her own son.

Lena is the new kid in Gatlin County and it definitely shows. She always wears a necklace that she is always adding items to it, like paperclips and string. She writes numbers on her hand, that Ethan is immediately curious about - she has strange powers and she soon earns the immediate dislike of almost everyone in town. Mainly, and she is the niece of the town crotchety old man, a loner, who lives in a spooky house on the outskirts of town.

Ethan and Lena finds each other in their dreams, before they even meet, and they're calling out to one another. We assume she's calling out for him, but maybe not...don't want to give away the end of the book.

The mysterious song "Sixteen Moons" appears on Ethan's I-pod the very next morning after his dream. Ethan, nor his best friend, Link, never heard of it either.

I highly recommand this book and there is going to be a Book 2 titled "Beautiful Darkness" due out for release Oct. 26 2010.

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