What makes “Beautiful Creatures” stand out among a plethora of intense teenage romance-meets-supernatural-being/power/world novels is its lead character, a boy, and its setting – Gatlin, S.C., a small town that still has Confederate leanings. Ethan has grown weary of his life – that is, until he meets Lena, a gothic beauty with, you guessed it, special powers. While the small-minded town shuns Lena for being different, Ethan befriends her. In a way markedly different from Edward and Bella's intense and immediate attraction in "Twilight," Ethan and Lena’s relationship develops into more over time. Love, danger, and a fight to change fate ensue in this, the authors’ first novel.
