Beautiful Darkness review

Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl


My rating: 4 of 5 stars




Review from goodreads.


Ethan Wate used to think of Gatlin, the small Southern town he had always called home, as a place where nothing ever changed. Then he met mysterious newcomer Lena Duchannes, who revealed a secret world that had been hidden in plain sight all along. A Gatlin that harbored ancient secrets beneath its moss-covered oaks and cracked sidewalks. A Gatlin where a curse has marked Lena's family of powerful Supernaturals for generations. A Gatlin where impossible, magical, life-altering events happen.

Sometimes life-ending.

Together they can face anything Gatlin throws at them, but after suffering a tragic loss, Lena starts to pull away, keeping secrets that test their relationship. And now that Ethan's eyes have been opened to the darker side of Gatlin, there's no going back. Haunted by strange visions only he can see, Ethan is pulled deeper into his town's tangled history and finds himself caught up in the dangerous network of underground passageways endlessly crisscrossing the South, where nothing is as it seems.


My Review :

Beautiful Darkness is a great book. It picks up shortly after the Beautiful Creatures ended.It is written in Ethen's point of view.It starts with Macon Ravenwood, Lena's uncle's funeral.Lena starts pulling away from Ethen, blaming herself for her uncles death.Ethen doesn't understand Lena blaming herself until almost at the end of the book, that by trying to save Ethen's life she, without knowing it killed her own uncle.

While pulling away from Ethen, Lena becomes close with her cousin Riley who is a Siren and dark caster and she is the definition of trouble and brings along John Breed who is capable of causing as much trouble as Riley or maybe even more.

Lena starts falling deeper and deeper into the dark side while Ethen starts having weird visions. Ethen is trying his best to help Lena and get her back. Ethen's aunts give him Lucille Ball, a caster cat who plays a major part in finding Lena and also in Ethen's 'visions'.

In Beautiful darkness the authors tell us some more about all the families and how all of them come together and help each other.Amma with the help of The Greats uses Spirit to help Ethen on many life - altering occasions.I loved the new character, Liv - a keeper in training who brakes all the rules keeper's are supposed to keep and helps and journeys with Ethen to the Great Barrier - a place of true power, along with Ethen's best friend Link.

I was so frustrated with Lena's behavior sometimes that I almost stopped reading the book there and there. I hated how she simply wanted to give up and accept that she belonged with the dark side of her family.

I really enjoyed the side stories and the history that unravels through out the pages. There were many times when my heart broke for Ethan.The book ends with many unanswered questions and of course a cliff hanger.

All I can say in the end that if you haven't added this book to your TBR list then add it now.


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