Beautiful Creatures
Beautiful Creatures (4 book series) Paperback Edition
Beautiful Creatures (4 book series)
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Secrets, strangers, and curses will lure you into the first book of the instant New York Times bestselling contemporary gothic fantasy series—where a stirring paranormal romance unfolds in an isolated southern town.

Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.

Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.

In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything.
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Secrets, strangers, and curses will lure you into the first book of the instant New York Times bestselling contemporary gothic fantasy series—where a stirring paranormal romance unfolds in an isolated southern town.

Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.

Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.

In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything.

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Fall under the spell of the Beautiful Darkness, the sequel to the instant New York Times bestselling gothic fantasy, Beautiful Creatures!

 

There were no surprises in Gatlin County. At least, that's what I thought. Turns out, I couldn't have been more wrong.

Ethan Wate used to think of Gatlin as a place where nothing ever changed. Then mysterious newcomer Lena Duchannes revealed a secret world of curses and Supernaturals with terrifying abilities. Lena showed him a Gatlin where impossible, magical, life-altering events happen. Sometimes life-ending.

And now that Ethan's eyes have been opened to the darker side of Gatlin, there's no going back. Haunted by strange visions only he can see, Ethan is pulled deeper into his town's tangled history and finds himself caught up in the dangerous network of underground passageways endlessly crisscrossing the South, where nothing is as it seems.


 

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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 from the Great Barrier,
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's not Lena -- and the mysterious figure is following him out of his dreams and into his everyday life. Worse, Ethan is gradually losing pieces of himself -- forgetting names, phone numbers, even memories. He doesn't know why, and he's afraid to ask.

Sometimes there's no going back. And this time there won't be a happy ending.






SPECIAL BONUS: Includes "Dream Dark," a thrilling short story set before
Beautiful Chaos. When Link joined his best friend, Ethan Wate, on a quest through a mysterious network of underground passageways endlessly crisscrossing the South, he knew the journey would be dangerous. But he had no idea it would change his life forever.

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Is death the end . . . or only the beginning?




Ethan Wate has spent most of his life longing to escape the stiflingly small Southern town of Gatlin. He never thought he would meet the girl of his dreams, Lena Duchannes, who unveiled a secretive, powerful, and cursed side of Gatlin, hidden in plain sight. And he never could have expected that he would be forced to leave behind everyone and everything he cares about. So when Ethan awakes after the chilling events of the Eighteenth Moon, he has only one goal: to find a way to return to Lena and the ones he loves.

Back in Gatlin, Lena is making her own bargains for Ethan's return, vowing to do whatever it takes -- even if that means trusting old enemies or risking the lives of the family and friends Ethan left to protect.


Worlds apart, Ethan and Lena must once again work together to rewrite their fate, in this stunning finale to the Beautiful Creatures series.

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Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2017
With 2,077 pages of development, this series is a pandora’s box of mixed emotions. The first thing that drew me to the book was the voice of Ethan Wate. His dry wit and self depreciating humor made me laugh out loud and there were times where I really appreciated his outlook on life. Through his eyes, I could really picture his small southern town. Within a few chapters it felt as familiar to me as small town Oklahoma — the place where my mother’s side of the family is from. Anybody who is at all familiar with the realities of the American Southern history and culture knows this is a two sided coin.

I’m not usually a fan of books that have such an emphasis on do or die romance but I wanted to know more about Ethan and how he would adjust to a world much bigger than the small town he grew up in. I wasn’t disappointed. Ethan’s character growth is phenomenal and it was a blast to watch him and his friends roll with the punches. Link is arguably my favorite character of this entire series — second only to Macon Ravenwood who goes through his own slew of developments that makes him a delicious ally to watch the kids interact with.

My favorite book was probably a toss up between the last two — Beautiful Chaos & Beautiful Redemption. I really loved the expansion of the world at large. It was also cool to see some of the new characters utilized in a way that wasn’t predictable. The authors could have easily made another adversary but instead they added another level of relationship dynamics that I particularly enjoyed watching unfold. The last two books were the most emotional for me and there were several parts I actually found myself crying in some parts.

Overall this is a really good series. I fully intend to pick up physical copies of the books which should tell you something. That said, there are a lot of dark themes within the books. There’s definitely mentions of child abuse although nothing graphic is described. The abuse isn’t normalized except where neglect is concerned. The Castor world is pretty messed up when it comes to raising children, and I can see how their black and white view on good and evil perpetuates a lot of that abusive element in the culture as a whole. I have mixed feelings on the way it was framed, but I don’t think it was framed in a positive light so keep that in mind when you pick up this book or recommend it to friends.

The Kindle Editions of this book are really great. The formatting is nice, they do pages as well as locations so you can update your progress on Goodreads easily. Whisper-sync is an awesome way to work with the books even when you don't have time to read them specially. The voice actor for the series is awesome, and he does a really good job shifting between different characters without pulling away from the story.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2015
Great read. Fun, entertaining, and made me want to read more!
Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2016
Before i read this series i had heard that the series wasnt that good, but i read them anyway. First im going to tell you the not so good parts of these books to get it out of the way and you can finish this review on a good impression. WARNING: this review will contain spoilers if you have not read the series PLEASE do not continue reading this. okay so lets get started. BAD: ~ okay for starters the beginning was stupid. i mean come on really guy dreams girl, guy meats girl, guy falls in love. stupid right? ~ okay next the guy cant "touch" the girl and the guy almost dies on a few occasions. it happens to many times and ruins the moment. ~lastly all the poems were really sad. and it wasnt just the poems that were filled with sorrow it was almost the whole series the only happy long lasting good moments were mostly whenever the two lovebirds were alone. GOOD~okay so that was only a little bit of the bad stuff i could think of at at the top of my head so now for some of the good stuff. ~ so for starters i love the backstory behind ethens name it adds a whole new mystery and love life with geniveve and ethen before lena and ethen. ~ next the shadowing songs that ethans mother had been sending him was a really good idea. although i really do wish it would have explained more of how she did it. ~ lastly i loved the turn of events where link turned into an incubus. i had not seen the twist coming. okay so i hope you enjoyed the review. please keep in mind that i did not list all the good and bad. and i just finished the series a week ago. and if i had to pick a favorite it would be book two. also if you enjoy reading romance i would recomend the divergent series, harry potter, and the selection series.
Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2017
Overall this series is enjoyable and supernatural readers will not be disappointed. The characters are memorable, and although this is a YA story there is a maturity level that is often lacking in coming of age books.
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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 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.