Beautiful Creatures

Garcia, K., & Stohl, M. (2009). Beautiful creatures. New York: Little, Brown.

Beautiful Creatures was okay, but not as good as I thought it would be. I kept thinking that it was a cross between the TV show Vampire Diaries (with the Civil War stuff) and Twilight. I guess I couldn't help thinking it should be more original. I gave it to my daughter after I read it though, and she liked it a lot. That's actually strange because she hated Twilight, and hasn't ever seen Vampire Diaries. There were lots of cliches here, and I didn't find Ethan to be very believable as a character. I couldn't really tell, however, that the book has two authors, so they wrote together well. My daughter will be reading the sequel, but I will pass.