Beautiful Creatures is the first book in the Caster Chronicles  series. It’s a solid start to an amazing series, and is perfect for those who prefer a longer read with 563 pages. The protagonist, Ethan Wate, lives in a sleepy town deep in the American south, where everybody knows everybody and nothing strange ever happens to anyone. Then the niece of the town recluse suddenly shows up in school, and Ethan recognizes her as the girl he’s been seeing in his dreams. Lena Duchannes isn’t like the other girls in the small town, and she immediately draws Ethan’s interest, leading him down a path of magic and danger.

Beautiful Creatures is an amazing book and an amazing series. Beautiful Creatures is followed by Beautiful Darkness, and both are solid entries in a fantastic series set around romance, magic, and the struggle between good and evil.

Recommendations of the issue:

Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick

I’d Tell You That I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You by Ally Carter