Title: Beautiful Creatures (Caster Chronicles #1)

Author: Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl

Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult

Published: December 1, 2009

Lena would be claimed by either the light or the dark on her sixteenth birthday. She believed it would be by the dark. The boy of the book Ethan was determined to prevent it from happening and losing her.

What bugged me the most was the adults. The ones who knew what was happening had more information than Lena or Ethan, but they refused to share. It was "all for the kids protection", but once the information was out it was clear it would have been better if Lena had known all of it before. The more I think about it, the lack of knowledge was a literary device for the authors to not give away too much early in the story. Since I was fully aware of that it got on my nerves even more.

The rest of the adults were easily swayed. They were willing to persecute a 16 year old girl just because she was different.  It was almost understandable for her fellow classmates to treat her with contempt, cliche, but understandable. The adults shouldn't have turned that fast or that hard against her with so little provocation. I also had a problem with Ethan's father. Okay, yes he was in mourning and depressed, but despite that he had a child who had lost his mother and because his father shut down he  ended up losing both his parents. The father should have at least been there enough to actually take an interest in what was happening in his sons life.

I was weirdly surprised the book was told from Ethan's point of view. I guess I shouldn't have been, from the beginning he was the character who knew the least about what was happening. I think since a lot of the books I have read recently the narrator has been female it was refreshing and something that took me a while to get used to.

My favorite aspect of Lena's character was her constant writing. I was even good when we, the audience, didn't actually know what she was writing about. My favorite aspect of Ethan's character was his unwavering devotion towards Lena. I liked Boo Radley probably just because he was the animal of the book. I liked Link because he was the humor within the story, I did think his character could have been more fleshed out.

Overall I gave this book 4 stars out of 5.