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Beautiful Chaos (Beautiful Creatures, Book 3) Preloaded Digital Audio Player – Unabridged, October 18, 2011

by Kami Garcia (Author), Margaret Stohl (Author), Kevin T. Collins (Reader)

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Book 3 of 4: Beautiful Creatures

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Ethan Wate thought he was getting used to the strange, impossible events happening in Gatlin, his small Southern town. But now that Ethan and Lena have returned home, strange and impossible have taken on new meanings. Swarms of locusts, record-breaking heat, and devastating storms ravage Gatlin as Ethan and Lena struggle to understand the impact of Lena's Claiming. Even Lena's family of powerful Supernaturals is affected - and their abilities begin to dangerously misfire. As time passes, one question becomes clear: What - or who - will need to be sacrificed to save Gatlin?

For Ethan, the chaos is a frightening but welcome distraction. He's being haunted in his dreams again, but this time it isn't by Lena - and whatever is haunting him is following him out of his dreams and into his everyday life. Even worse, Ethan is gradually losing pieces of himself - forgetting names, phone numbers, even memories. He doesn't know why, and most days he's too afraid to ask.

Sometimes there isn't just one answer or one choice. Sometimes there's no going back. And this time there won't be a happy ending.

Reading age

12 years and up
Book 3 of 4

Beautiful Creatures
Print length

16 pages
Language

English
Grade level

7 and up
Dimensions

5.25 x 0.75 x 7 inches
Publisher

Little, Brown Young Readers
Publication date

October 18, 2011
ISBN-10

1611133742
ISBN-13

978-1611133745
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Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl are longtime friends and coauthors of the #1 New York Times bestselling Beautiful Creatures series. The first book in the series, Beautiful Creatures, is now a major motion picture. In addition to writing together, they have written solo novels: Unbreakable, an instant New York Times bestseller and the first book in Kami's series, The Legion; and Icons, the first book in Margaret's Icons series, which is currently in development as a feature film. Both books are available now. Margaret and Kami are currently at work on the sequel to Dangerous Creatures, available in spring 2015. They invite you to visit them online at kamigarcia.com & margaret-stohl.com.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Little, Brown Young Readers; Unabridged edition (October 18, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Preloaded Digital Audio Player ‏ : ‎ 16 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1611133742
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1611133745
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 12 years and up
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 7 and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.75 x 7 inches

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Kami Garcia
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Kami Garcia is the #1 New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and international bestselling author and comic book writer. She is the coauthor of the Beautiful Creatures and Dangerous Creatures novels and her solo works include the YA fantasy novels UNBREAKABLE and UNMARKED (THE LEGION SERIES), YA contemporary romances THE LOVELY RECKLESS and BROKEN BEAUTIFUL HEARTS, and THE X-FILES ORIGINS: AGENT OF CHAOS. She is also the writer of the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling YA graphic novel TEEN TITANS: RAVEN, with artist Gabriel Picolo, the first graphic novel in their TEEN TITANS series for DC, the upcoming YA graphic novel CONSTANTINE: DISTORTED ILLUSIONS, with artist Isaac Goodhart, and JOKER/HARLEY: CRIMINAL SANITY for DC Black Label, with artists Mico Suayan, Jason Badower, and Mike Mayhew.
Her debut novel, BEAUTIFUL CREATURES, has been published in 50 countries and translated in 39 languages, and the series has sold over 5 million copies. BEAUTIFUL CREATURES was a finalist for the ALA’s William C. Morris Debut Author Award, a SCIBA Award Finalist, Amazon’s #1 Teen Book of 2009 and #5 on the Editor’s Top 100 List, a YALSA “Teen Top Ten” Pick, and a New York Public Library’s “Books for the Teen Age” selection. The film adaptation Beautiful Creatures released in theaters in 2013, from Warner Brothers.
Kami is a cofounder of the KidLit book festival YALLFest, and a board member of YALLWest, the sister festival. She's also a member of the NaNoWriMo Writer's Board.
Kami has an MA in education, and she was a teacher for seventeen years before co-authoring her first novel on a dare from seven of her students. Kami can teach you how to escape from a pair of handcuffs or bake a Coca-Cola cake. She lives in Maryland with her family, and their dogs Spike and Oz. Visit Kami at www.kamigarcia.com.
Find Kami online at www.kamigarcia.com, Facebook: KamiGarciaYA, Twitter: @kamigarcia, Instagram: @kamigarcia, Tumblr: kamigarcia, & Pinterest: kamigarcia.
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Margaret Stohl
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Margaret Stohl is a #1 New York Times bestselling & award-winning author of books, comics and videogames. Best known for the BEAUTIFUL CREATURES novels and Marvel's LIFE OF CAPTAIN MARVEL comics, her latest book is CATS VS ROBOTS: THIS IS WAR (with husband Lewis Peterson, illustrated by their child Kay Peterson.) When not writing, she builds game worlds (#Bungie) or book festivals (#Yallwest #Yallfest) Find more about her at mstohl.com // @mstohl on twitter // margaret_stohl at instagram // margaret_stohl on snapchat.
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Margaret is the USA Today, Publishers Weekly, Los Angeles Times, Indie-Bound, Wall Street Journal and Internationally Bestselling author of twelve YA novels, and has been published in 37 languages and 48 countries.
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES was adapted into a film (2013) by Warner Brothers and Alcon Entertainment, and was an ALA William C. Morris YA Debut Award finalist in 2010, as well as a SCIBA award finalist, a NYPL Book for the Teen Age, and a YALSA Teen Top Ten Pick. Beautiful Creatures was named the #1 Teen Pick from Amazon in 2009, and the #5 Editors Pick, Overall.
Aside from the BEAUTIFUL CREATURES novels, Margaret has written the DANGEROUS CREATURES novels (both series with Kami Garcia), the ICONS novels, Marvel's BLACK WIDOW novels, ROYCE ROLLS and CATS VS ROBOTS: THIS IS WAR.
In addition to novels, Margaret is also the author of many comics, including MIGHTY CAPTAIN MARVEL, CAPTAIN MARVEL DARK ORIGINS, CAPTAIN MARVEL GENERATIONS, and LIFE OF CAPTAIN MARVEL for MARVEL COMICS.
Prior to her career in books and comics, Margaret worked in the video game industry for sixteen years, eventually co-founding 7 Studios game developer with her husband, Lewis Peterson, serving as Creative Director until the company was acquired. Margaret now splits time between Santa Monica and Seattle, where she builds game worlds at Bungie Inc.
Margaret's passion project is literacy outreach; as the co-founder of YALLFEST (Charleston, SC) and YALLWEST (Santa Monica, CA), two of the biggest kid/teen book festivals in the country, she loves nothing more than talking books with teen and youth readers.
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Customers find the plot intriguing and the storyline deep with adventure and romance. They also describe the book as very well written, entertaining, and enjoyable. Customers also say the series is amazing and gets more intriguing. They appreciate the more developed characters and say the book is well worth the buy. However, some customers feel the book was on the slow side.

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201 customers mention "Plot"186 positive15 negative

Customers find the plot intriguing, with new twists on world-building and character development. They also mention the book has adventure, love, action, and mystery.

"...This was a great follow up story and makes me anxious for the final book in the series this fall...." Read more

"...It's a beautiful book, I highly recommend it to those who read the first 2 books. Just make sure you have tons of tissue...." Read more

"...There are so many sub-plots in this book, but they effortlessly tie into the main story-line, always giving the reader some new angle...." Read more

"...Not that I wanted the book to end, but the cliffhanger was good!Things I wanted more of... --The supporting characters...." Read more

119 customers mention "Storyline"97 positive22 negative

Customers find the storyline interesting, poignant, and breathless. They also say the book has action, new twists on the world-building, and intricately weaves love and culture. Readers also mention that the book is engaging and well written, and a contemporary gothic faerie tale.

"...full of better character development and interaction; the action is tension-filled and the quiet moments between Ethan and Lena are the sweetest..." Read more

"...The weaving themes of love and sacrifice, both romantic and not, was beautiful and it makes the reader look just a little differently at them...." Read more

"...I thought there was better paranormal effects in this book than in the other two...." Read more

"...Beautiful Chaos was a fantastic book that ended on quite the cliffhanger...." Read more

99 customers mention "Readability"79 positive20 negative

Customers find the book very well written, and a quick read. They also say it's entertaining and enjoyable.

"...Total shock. Talk about a cliff-hanger.Another beautifully written chapter in the Caster Chronicles series, but definitely not what I..." Read more

"...The writing is strong, the characters delightful/horrible, and the story satisfying (despite a cliffie)...." Read more

"The books are well written, the descriptions stick with you, and it's not overly predictable. It's a creative and entertaining series...." Read more

"...This book was much more interesting and well written than Beautiful Darkness...." Read more

83 customers mention "Enjoyment"70 positive13 negative

Customers find the book entertaining, with humor, adventure, love, action, and mystery. They also say it holds them captive throughout the book.

"...It's a creative and entertaining series. I'm giving it 3-stars, because I wish it were a little less predictable...." Read more

"...I liked it a lot. This wasn’t an amazing YA series, but it was entertaining...." Read more

"...Ethan and Lena's story is an awesome, sad, happy, funny, bittersweet, heartbreaking, and uplifting story all at once...." Read more

"...I found them very engaging and entertaining. These books have great humor and are cleverly written. More ladies, please!" Read more

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"...This was a nice series, though not comparable to them, in any way, shape, or form...." Read more

"...This is a great series and you must read them all. I loved falling into their world and wondering what was going to happen next...." Read more

"...This was an amazing series that I simply couldn't put down...." Read more

"I read a lot of fantasy stories and this is really a great series! Not only is the story interesting, but the grammar is pretty good, as well...." Read more

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Customers find the characters in the book more developed and eccentric. They also appreciate the variety of locations, super natural beings, and occurances.

"...But the supporting characters were better, as seems to be fairly standard with this series...." Read more

"...The characters were as strong as they have ever been, as real as possible when created within the pages of a book...." Read more

"...There wasn't a thing I didn't like. All the characters were just awesome...." Read more

"...And also the evolution of certain characters is so good that their story is so intriguing that you want to know what will happen to them at the end..." Read more

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"...It's worth the read!" Read more

"...Other than that this is a great read and well worth the money!! I do find Lena's character to be a bit dry though." Read more

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"...The book is written so that the pacing is slow. It isn’t until about 300 pages into the book that you can feel things starting to pick up...." Read more

"...It moved a bit too slow in the beginning for me & some of the sci-fi scenes were a bit confusing...." Read more

"It's a little bit slow to read, and the fighting scenes are also a little bit repetitive, but even so it's an interesting book...." Read more

"...I feel like the book is dragging on. The author likes to give you bits of a puzzle, like where John Breed is but telling you nothing else...." Read more

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Best In Series So Far!

Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2012

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Lena broke the world on her seventeenth moon. Instead of choosing Light or Dark, which would have resulted in the death of any family members who belonged to the side she didn't choose, Lena chose both. By embracing both Light and Dark, she has thrown the natural order of things out of sync. Not only are her creepy Incubus ancestors trying to take advantage of the chaos and create their own ideal world, but the town of Gatlin and everyone she loves in it is in danger.

The Linkubus isn't the only thing Gatlin has to fear... Abraham Ravenwood has joined with Lena's evil Caster mother to find John Breed- the hybrid Incubus who can walk in the sunlight and is the future for Abraham and the other evil creatures. They know Lena, Ethan, and Macon are somehow involved in hiding him, but they have no idea where he is. Add to that newly-mortal Ridley's craziness now that she is no longer a Siren and you have quite the disaster. Then Abraham lets loose the Vexes who take down the Sisters' (Ethan's ancient aunts) house with a tornado and puts Aunt Prue in a coma, he knows something has to be done. But the snippets of the song about "The Eighteenth Moon" are not only terrifying, they are incredibly cryptic.

Meanwhile, they find Ridley has been holding John Breed prisoner in her room and using him to Cast. While Ethan wants to kill him for turning Link and almost destroying Lena, he realizes John is as innocent as they all are in the mess that has become Gatlin. Abraham has abused and controlled John since he was a child and John doesn't even remember hurting Link. Together, they all struggle to make sense of what is happened and how to change it back. Unfortunately, the sacrifice that must be paid is one no one is ready for.

This was the best installment of this series so far. I like the other two books as well, but this one was really good. I couldn't put it down, all 500 pages of it. Since we saw Ethan and Lena so separated last book, it was nice to see them back together. But the supporting characters were better, as seems to be fairly standard with this series. Link was a riot as usual, and it was funny watching him try to deal with his new found powers. Ridley has a lot of trouble coping with her new standing as a mortal, but I love her relationship with Link (as tumultuous as it is). But Amma and John Breed were really interesting here. Amma, always protective of Ethan, will go to any lengths to protect him- even if it means a sacrifice Ethan would never let her pay. And John, who you hated in the last book, you find yourself sympathizing with. He really never experienced any childhood or family; you really find yourself wanting to like him. This was a great follow up story and makes me anxious for the final book in the series this fall. I can't imagine where everything is going to go with the final story, but I know I can't wait to read it!

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Make sure you have LOTS of tissue when you read this one.

Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2011

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That was the most beautiful, sweetest, heartbreaking book I've read in a long time. It was better than the first and second books combined and THANK GOD there is a 4th book or I would continue to be the blubbering mess I am right now.

For the uninitated, you have to read the first 2 books or this one will not make sense at all. For those of you in love with Ethan and Lena, Link and Liv, Amma and Marian and even Ridley, this book will be your favorite. It packs it's pages full of better character development and interaction; the action is tension-filled and the quiet moments between Ethan and Lena are the sweetest ever.

Lena is not the moody stranger she was in Beautiful Darkness, she is more involved in the story, not just the elusive Caster breaking Ethan's heart over and over again. Link is not just a goofball best friend now, he's a hunky goofball best friend with powers. And Ridley is still breaking his heart over and over again. John Breed returns and I'm still not sure what I think of that guy by the end. Amma is more fragile this time; she shows her softer, more emotional side. Liv is still the best, she misses her friend Ethan and there is the greatest scene between her and Lena. Go Liv!

And Ethan is still the most sensitive, most loving teenage boy that ever existed (when he was describing how he would hug and smell his mother's pillow after her death, I was bawling). But this time, he is darker, he's changing, something is wrong with him. He feels it, he knows it. We all know it and we see it coming.

The evil characters are still there, but it's the good guys that make the book so enjoyable for me. It's a beautiful book, I highly recommend it to those who read the first 2 books. Just make sure you have tons of tissue.

And it leaves you with the biggest cliffhanger ever.

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Review for Beautiful Chaos by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl

Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2014

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Ethan Wate's life is never going to be normal. He and Lena return home to find things are stranger in Gatlin than when they left. Apparently Lena broke things a bit when she refused to choose a side and now everything has gone pear-shaped. And even worse, Ethan is being haunted both in dreams and in real life and he's slowly losing himself. The gang needs to get things together and quick because the wheel of fate is going to crush them all if they don't make things right.

I'm at a bit of a loss for what to say here. We get the same cast that we had in the previous novels, with more of John Breed and Olivia. They are on a journey to set the order of things straight again since Lena messed them up when she "skipped" her moon. I still love Ethan and Lena and their relationship, but it's far from perfect and that shows here more than ever. Ethan spent much of the last book with Olivia because Lena ran off with John and now he isn't allowed to see her because it upsets Lena. So we have this sorta-not-really love triangle thing happening that irritated me to no end. But Lena has no qualms talked to John Breed even though it's the exact same situation as Ethan and Liv. Which pissed me off. Then the predictable thing happens.

Then there is the whole Link and Ridley situation in general. Rid is human now and Link is quarter incubus, so you'd think the majority of the problems are solved, right? Rid can be good and Link can be her almost human boyfriend and they ride off into the proverbial sunset, yeah? Or not...... Is that too much to ask? To have Link and Ridley finally get their crap together. Or rather, to have Ridley finally get her crap together? This was a big forshadowing moment in my lifetime that I missed because from this point on, my opinion of Ridley just sinks lower and lower. That's a depressing thing because I really liked her in Beautiful Creatures, despite the fact that she was a quasi-villain and she redeems herself a tad in Beautiful Redemption...but then she falls again and I just want to punch her in the freaking face.

Besides my obvious hangups about characters, this novel has one big issues, the huge motherf-ing cliffhanger. This books ends in quite possibly the worst cliffhanger I have ever read. Now, I know what you are all thinking: But Tabitha, don't you already have a copy of the next book? Isn't the audiobook queued up just waiting on this to end? Yes, it is, but it's the darn principle. I know a lot of people read these books as soon as they were released and I cannot imagine having to wait for a year or more to find out what happens next. This is not freaking necessary. It's infuriating. I've been letting cliffhangers slide lately, but this was over the line.

Despite my anger and my issues, this was still a highly enjoyable installment of the Caster Chronicles. You get a bit of mystery and a bit of action and a lot of Ethan/Lena romance. You get more of that swoon-worhty southern charm that is Ethan Wate. Just be warned that you'll want to have the next novel close on hand because the ending leaves a lot to be desired.

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