Beautiful Creatures

The one thing I actually really like about this series - and it was a little weird at first - is that the story is told from Ethan's point of view. We have come to adapt to the whole human girl falls for the good looking supernatural guy but it's the other way around in the Caster Chronicles, which I found quite refreshing.

I really liked the characters a lot - Ethan starts off as a bit of a weird kid who just fits in because he was born in his little Southern town. Until he meets Lena and then he becomes very strong minded and stands up for her against everyone else.

I loved Lena. I thought her character was very realistic. So often you come across characters that could never survive in the real world. I liked that Lena came across as not caring about what other people think but the way this story has been written, you get Lena's POV too when she talks to Ethan psychically and you can see that she does care about what other people think and she just wants to be a normal teenage girl. And in a way she is - she worries about every day things as well as worrying about her birthday that is coming up - when she will turn either Light or Dark. Anyway I loved both of these characters.

Even the smaller characters were great. Amma, Macon, Link, Lena's family and especially Boo :)

The story was so easy to read and although was it a little bit longer than your average teen supernatural novel, it only took a couple of days to get through it.

I've already started the second book Beautiful Darkness and I can't wait to find out what happens next.