Beautiful Creatures Novel

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Beautiful Creatures By Margaret Stohl and Kami Garcia Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl is set in fictional Gatlin, South Carolina where small minds rule and originality slowly suffocates. The novel is told by protagonist Ethan Wate who lives with his recently widowed father, a writer, and housekeeper Amma who is more like Ethan’s grandmother. The story begins on the first day of Ethan’s sophomore year when he wakes up from a recurring dream he’s been having about a girl he doesn’t know. That morning he finds a “creepy- almost hypnotic,” song called Sixteen Moons on his iPod and also notices the smell of rosemary and lemon. Ethan later hears Lena playing Sixteen Moons in band. When Ethan drives home he almost runs over Lena who is standing on the road in the middle of the storm looking for someone to help with her broken down car. When Ethan notices she smells like lemon and rosemary he realized that Lena is the girl from his dreams. In these dreams --- as well as in real life --- Lena is strikingly lovely and unusual. She has curly black hair and alluring green eyes and is a poet who dresses in gothic style. No one at Gatlin High mistakes her for an ordinary southern belle, although she might seem to be outside of the sleepy southern town. The entire basketball team agrees that Lena is “hot,” but none except Ethan are willing to give her the time of day, mostly because she’s different from the rest of them. The townies are church-society folks, many of whom still attend regular meetings of the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution). They’re disgusted by the fact that Lena never even attempts to become a dismal clone of one of them, and the girls enjoy tormenting her daily. Ethan and his friend, Link, are the only ones who ever offer Lena real friendship, and Ethan cares enough to stand up for Lena at the expense of his own social

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