What's the
book about?
This is the sequel to Beautiful Creatures. Just a bit of a
warning there might be a bit of spoilers from the first book here. After
confronting her destiny and sort of evading it, Lena is not feeling quite
herself. Although Ethan tries his hardest to keep things the same for both of
them this proves very hard when Lena herself seems to be committed to pull
away. The appearance of a new Caster doesn't help. In the end it will be up to
Ethan to keep fighting for the both of them.
What
was the thing I liked the most?
See, I was kind of disappointed
at several points of the book because I was afraid it was falling into the love
triangle again, and I sort of had enough of that already. However, I liked the
side story that we got from Ethan's mother. Also, I really like Ridley, she is
a bad/good character and I like that I can't predict her...yet
What
about the main character?
Last review I talked
about Ethan, so let's talk about Lena this time. I liked her in the first book
better. She is smart and vulnerable. I didn't like her martyr tone, but when
you learn the weight she has on her shoulders, with the responsibility of
killing half of her family depending on her "calling", it is
understandable that she is not the bubbliest of the teenagers. However, in this
book we don't see her as much and the moments we do she has turned into this
even sadder, darker, sort of Emo girl...no, I didn't like her in this book.
Final
thoughts
I was very happy to see
that the authors didn't go with the token "love triangle". I liked
Olivia as a new character, more than I expected at the end. It wasn't better
than the first book but I still want to read the third book and this is only
due to the tiny doors that were left open at the end of the second book.
This is book makes part of my Sequel Challenge :)
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