Beautiful Creatures Book Review

Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia

In Ethan Wate's hometown there lies the darkest of secrets. There is a girl. "Slowly, she pulled the hood from her head. Green eyes, black hair. Lena Duchannes."  There is a curse. "On the sixteenth year, the book will take what's promised. And no one can stop it. In the end, there is a grave." Lena and Ethan become bound together by a deep, powerful love. But Lena is cursed and on her sixteenth birthday, her fate will be decided. Ethan never saw it coming.

My favourite character is Lena's uncle, Macon Melchizedek Ravenwood. He is strouded in mystery throughout the whole book and he is a very intriguing character who I always wanted to know more about but the reader only gets a little bit of information on.

The characters were difficult to relate to because they came from a very different upbringing and therefore had different traditions and a different way of life really.

I struggled to keep interested in the book because there were times when the story got a bit boring but there were events that happened that kept me reading the book and kept me wanting to get to the end to find out what happens.

I think that beautiful creatures shows the obvious fear of supernatural powers that comes from a society like in the south of the USA. It shows that individuals may gain a interest in the supernatural and the powers that the Ravenwood family possess but it will never be truly accepted in society because of the fear and mystery surrounding it. Magic has never been openly spoken about and during the civil war, the oldest families in this book attacked the Ravenwood family because they needed someone to blame for everything that had gone wrong. So naturally they blame the people that they don't know much about and I think this could be translated into our real society today because if there is something that we cannot explain why it happens we either discount that it ever happened or we try to blame people that are the most unaccepted within society, this is true of all situations not just supernatural events.

I give beautiful creatures by Kami Garcia a 3/5.

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