Comments on: Joint Review: Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl

By: Review of Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl | Good Books And Good Wine

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 05:51:26 +0000

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Sixteen Moons | One More Page — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:34:30 +0000

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Beautiful Creatures – Review — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:55:26 +0000

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By: Grim

Grim — Sat, 29 May 2010 03:47:27 +0000

Oh, and I DO NOT buy that MC as a male. No way.

By: Grim

Grim — Sat, 29 May 2010 03:46:55 +0000

It started off excellent, then turned boring and plotless.

By: angie.a

angie.a — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:19:45 +0000

Well, I completely agree with both assessments. i’ve yet to finish the sodding thing because I happen to be at one of those portions that DRAGS. As a HS teacher I gotta tell you, no teenage boy I ever knew acted like Ethan. Heck, even 14 year old boys are more sexual than this kid!

I also have issue with the locale, although I see its widely appreciated. I appreciate it too, don’t get me wrong, but they seem to be describing Louisiana, not South Carolina (except for the Aunts and the DAR). I’ve been a visitor to both areas, and found their descriptions contradictory. Which leads me to wonder if they should have just left the exact location ambiguous. It would have read more believable to me.

By: Linda

Linda — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 03:48:38 +0000

I totally agree with your review. I had heard really good things about this book (there was a lot of hype surrounding it) and I started it with high expectations. The story just doesn’t make sense. It’s like the authors needed an interesting plot so they made a ‘problem’ that needed to be fixed. Unfortunately, it was a completely unnecessary one. There is no logical reason I can think of for the adults in the book not to tell the young people what’s going on. None. It actually works against their cause. I hate reading books where characters make stupid unrealistic decisions and the whole plot is driven by these choices. Because of this I found the book dragged.

BOOOOO!

By: KMont

KMont — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:44:52 +0000

Huh. Not liking idea of book where the character are so obviously flawed, and I’m not talking about flawed in a way that makes sense in the book. It sounds as if these characters didn’t make much sense at all. I’m afraid this would drive me buggy.

By: Allie

Allie — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:59:41 +0000

I just finished this book and did think about how odd it was that the kissing didn’t go beyond that, but the story was really good so I didn’t dwell on that. BUT I did think the pacing of the story did get slow and boring at times.

By: katiebabs

katiebabs — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:15:20 +0000

Thea: Then you must have loved how Ethan and Lena can’t be intimate because the world will end!! MUWAHAA.

I keep chuckling over Ethan getting a stiffy. Also not cursing if you noticed either.