My Thoughts On Beautiful Creatures

Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

So I wanted to love this book. In fact, I kept reading, thinking something great was just around the corner all the time, the next chapter will be it. But it never was. There was a lot of pre-release hype to read it and the cover art was gorgeous, but I thought th book was lacking. I will give it marks for its Paranormal Lore. I think the authors created something that was all new with its own history and details, and I liked the Casters they created. And I really liked the Civil War history that was intermixed.

I struggled with it being written from the teenage boys' perspective. It never felt to me like 16 a year old boy would really go on and on about clothing, poetry, town history, the elderly people in the town and his family. I think 3rd person would have been more convincing.

I thought that a lot of subplots and characters were left incomplete or unfinished: Ethan's mother' ghost? Ethan's Dad? The girls of the clique?

Most of the book I felt went on and on, mostly just chapter after chapter of: "what are we going to do? I love you, I can't live without you?" It seemed like the days were changing, maybe the scene too, but the overall theme was the same,"what are we going to do?" By the end I was thinking they needed to "do" something great to pull this book out of the dulldrums.

I had a hint at the end that there would be an additional book to make a series out of this. Usually, I am always on the hook for a book in a series once I have read book one, but this I doubt I'll read. It ended, it's over, I'm on to something else.

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