Book Title: Beautiful Creatures.
Written by Noah Garcia and Margaret Stoll
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Year of publication: December 2009
ISBN: 978-0-315-07128-4
My mother's thickness: 330 pages
Summary:
Ethan Lawson Waite, an ordinary young man living in Gatlin, South Carolina, wants to graduate as soon as possible and move as far away from the city as possible in a small town that hasn't changed much since the Civil War. Ethan lives alone with his father, a writer who killed his wife Lila Evers Waite and locked her in his studio all day, so Amma, the housewife and foster mother, is basically building the personal life of the Waite family. ETAN. Everything went as usual, except for the occasional nightmare that Ethan had for several months, except for the intermittent and dull ones: the fall, the free fall into the shadows, alone, the examination, the same face and smell, the smell of lemon and rosemary. The nightmares became more and more real, Ethan often woke up under certain conditions and opened doors or windows without remembering that they were open. And on his first day of school, in his second year at Stonewall Jackson High, in a building with a similar dream, he finds his iPoda, a song called Sixteen Months, full of a new song he had never met. . . And that day, a new student appeared in her class, an eccentric girl named Lena Ducane, who became a village interlocutor because Melchizedek was a not-so-rare granddaughter at Ravenwood Old Macon, on a distant hill living alone in Ravenwood Manor.
Lena is quite attractive in a long black car that looks like a car with her black make-up outside of her gothic appearance, but Ethan finds himself strangely attractive, as if he had known Lena for a long time, and says: Lena Ducanne But they're fine: Ethan's friends go to a basketball club with cheerleaders, make sure Lena is boycotted and marginalized, and tries to keep the school away from Lee. arguing that he would cause her a lot of trouble: Just Ethan's best friend, Wesley Jefferson Lincoln , who stays loyal to Ethan and accepts Lena for everything.
But Lena is not an ordinary person, she is a witch - a person with supernatural powers for generations, and she starts training for adulthood at the age of 16, where she will face her fate, turning into a party of light. party of darkness. . Lena, a prosperous teenager, often changes to be closer every year, when Lena's birth mother, whom she never met, became Dark and famous. Lena was afraid that the same changes would happen to her. And they weren’t helped by the constant distractions of her classmates and those around her, so every time Lena felt angry, angry, or scared, bad weather, rain, or a storm hit the town of Gatlin. Ethan, who doesn’t even want to be with Lena, can’t get enough of Lena, especially since they met him, because Ethan can hear all the thoughts and screams in Lena’s head.
And one day, in a corner of the park near Ravenwood Manor, they found an old necklace pendant engraved with ECW and GKD, and while they were both holding on to the pendant, an extraordinary phenomenon occurred. Ethan and Lena enter a whirlwind that takes them back in time to the end of the Civil War in Gatlin, while they visit and search people's homes. But the main character who catches the eye is a young woman, Genevieve, who tries to go to her house to save her family, return home and be trapped in the village only with Ivy, the faithful servant of the family who survived. She also witnessed a chance encounter between Genevieve and her lover, Ethan Carter Waiter, the ancestor of the Ethan family, whose name was removed from her family tree because she was considered a traitor. The scene ended abruptly, returning to the present. Intrigued by the events, they both find out what really happened and what is the connection between the event and the two: Ethan and Lena?
Through various secret means and tactics, especially with Ethan, Amma strictly forbids him, even after making the necklace pendant, to make a cursed amulet, and orders Ethani to be buried in his original place (Ethan did not do this). And these two, Ethan and Lena, each time they have a pendant around their neck, can follow the story of Ethan Carter with Geneviev - see it as a movie, but feel the atmosphere going on ... where, after all, the mystery comes. According to Maraud's army, Ethan was shot and killed immediately. Geneviev, who refuses to accept reality after losing his whole world, does something that is forbidden despite strong protests from Ivy. Genevieve Dukan opens the Book of the Moon and casts a spell on Ethan's revival, and Dukan's entire bloodline is cursed as some of his descendants become dark wizards.
Lena was getting more and more nervous after the accident, she was more and more convinced that she would succeed as a Dark Spellcaster. Her White Caster relatives came to Ravenwood Manor to help Lena and prepare for the opening ceremony. His arrival was interrupted by the visit of an intruder, a close friend of Lena: Ridley, who initially became Dark Spellcaster and now arrived with a special mission: to destroy Lena. And he took advantage of Ethan's existence, a mortal who should have abilities, but somehow Uncle Macon later found out that Ethan was capable of protecting Caster White's Lena who could not protect him.
Ethan and Lena go through many unimaginable events and adventures to lift the veil of the secret that binds them together. As Ethan struggles to take care of Lena and solve the problem, things are not easy with Amma's ban, the school she has to go to, and all the activities that regularly lead citizens to look for Lena's goat. Ethan is sure that the answer that Duchamp is looking for in the Cursed Book of the Moon is a lie, but it has gone without a trace. When Lila Waite's unexpected friend arrives unexpectedly, it happens that Ethan's mother plays a role in the community: Mortal, himself and Macon Ravenwood also know each other. Ethan also finds that he has not always known the family that has survived. Her father was depressed and mad, Amma, who had always been her patron, was a practitioner of a kind of black magic associated with spirits ... and Lena, Barclay's uncle, had to adapt to the Caster family. A Caster Shifter who can change things with the help of witchcraft; Aunt Del is the author of Palinsesto, who reads time; Rhys' daughter is Sybil, who reads faces; his brother Larkin is an illusionist; and little physician Ryan Caster Thaumaturge. Ethan also witnessed the ability of the Ridley Mermaid to use her voice before anyone saved Lena to fulfill her will. He also had a house that changed every time Uncle Macon came in, his dog seemed to be everywhere Ethan looked ... and his dog with human eyes.
But Ethan persists in every situation, knowing that he is only afraid of losing Lena if he finds the key to the answer to help everything he finds in Lena ... Sarafina - Lena's biological mother. Ethan and Lena have to fight, unaware that the enemy is next to them, close enough to heal their loved ones. Will Lena be able to bear her fate? What will happen after Ethan and Lena begin their relationship; between the deadliest and the most powerful of witchcraft? There are also traitors who are ready to attack when the time comes.
