What makes 鈥�Beautiful Creatures鈥� stand out among a plethora of intense teenage romance-meets-supernatural-being/power/world novels is its lead character, a boy, and its setting 鈥� Gatlin, S.C., a small town that still has Confederate leanings. Ethan has grown weary of his life 鈥� 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鈥檚 relationship develops into more over time. Love, danger, and a fight to change fate ensue in this, the authors鈥� first novel.
