beautiful creatures by kami garcia and margaret stohl

Sometime later, Ethan approaches Lena and explains that he has been dreaming about her. He recognizes her as the girl he has dreamt about saving and is shocked to smell rosemary and lemon. At school, Ethan suddenly hears “Sixteen Moons” and follows the sound to a music room where he finds Lena playing the song on the cello. Later, Ethan hears that a new girl named Lena is joining his class and learns that she is the niece of Macon Ravenwood, a strange, reclusive man who lives in a grand old plantation house. When he wakes, he can smell rosemary and lemon and discovers a song titled “Sixteen Moons” on his iPod despite not having put it on there himself. Although she is a regular churchgoer, Amma also claims to be a seer – a person with supernatural insight – and fills the house with protective charms Ethan repeatedly dreams about trying to catch a falling girl, only for her to slide out of his grip, scratching her wrist on his nails as she falls. Ethan does have support, however, in the form of Amma, the housekeeper who cares deeply for Ethan and cooks for him and his father. Ethan’s mother was killed in an accident and, since her passing, Ethan’s father has been extremely withdrawn, rarely emerging from his office or engaging with Ethan, adding to the boy’s isolation and emotional upset. The townspeople are unintelligent, tedious, and obsessed with the Civil War (which many of them still call the “War of Northern Aggression”), and the school still uses blackboards and a card catalog for the library. Ethan describes the town as isolated and stuck in the past. The novel is narrated by the protagonist, Ethan Wate, a teenage boy from Gatlin, a small town in South Carolina. The first book in the Caster Chronicles series by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Creatures explores themes of belief, love, and small-town life through the tale of two teenagers falling in love in a town haunted by mysterious magic.

Beautiful creatures by kami garcia and margaret stohl