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Reader reviewed by john

                   Beautiful Creatures is a very good book.  I absolutely loved it!  Enough to read it a second time and I plan on reading it a 3rd and 4th time.  I just love the atmosphere of the book and the setting( same thing?) and it was just really good.  More than good. . Great!.  I loved Ethan, it was a good twist the authors, K&M, took with having a male as the teller of the story when most paranormal romance novels are told in a females point of view.  One of the things that was weird was how when Lena and Ethan were hanging out at Greenbrier and Lena started re-shaping the clouds and Ethan saw it and reacted like it was nothing.  Yeah. . . I notice the small stuff.  I don't know about you but I would of been like "How did you do that?!" and ran away.  Well, I wouldn't have run away!.  Hmm, maybe it takes a lot for Ethan to be freaked out.  I loved all the charecters, and yes!, even Ridely.  She's actually my favorite charecter.  You can kind of tell that she isn't totally emotionless and does feel remorse for some of the things that she does.  I hope she is in book 2 and the rest of the series.  Not to sound mean to the authors but I can describe this book as the paranormal version of To Kill a Mockingbird.  Seriously!  Both stories take place in the South, both stories have a town "creep" that nobody ever sees.  Both stories have a maid, but Amma isn't really a maid in Beautiful Creatures, but she does do all the cooking and cleaning and whatnot.  Not to compare books, though, I rarely compare books.  Beautiful Creatures  was one of those books that when you're reading the action scenes in the book you don't have any clue what's going on, and then you read it a second time and it's crystal clear!  Yeah, that was how the book was for me.  I love the magical powers that Lena and her family has.  The book was really original and creative.  For me, it was one of those books that you feel you've read a million times before ( in a good way!) and it just feels so right to read it and you can't really put it down because it's just so good.  I can't wait for Beautiful Darkness to come out in October!  I'm getting it @ midnight if possible!