Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
Halfway through Beautiful Creatures, I remember thinking, “Hey, this is like The Witching Hour, but for teenagers!” The Witching Hour is probably my favorite Anne Rice book of all time, so this is high praise coming from me. It’s different, of course — Beautiful Creatures is much more PG-rated and unfolds at a faster pace — but both are big, meaty books featuring antebellum mansions, hidden witch families, curses generations in the making, and one pure love to stand against evil… Read the rest.
I have not read any books by Anne Rice, so I haven’t read Witching Hour. But I have heard of Beautiful Creatures and read the synopsis on the book. It sounds like something I would very much like. After reading your review here I think I need to get it and The Witching Hour. I think both books would be something for me. Thanks for the great review and I am now adding Witching Hour to my list!
I love The Witching Hour and I’m on about my fourth copy of it. It’s not for everybody–there’s this HUGE detour through family history in the middle of the book that I LOVED but that some people think was just too slow.
The sequels pale by comparison. Skip Lasher et al, and make up your own ending. ;)
I’m definitely going to have to track this down, simply because you cited “The Witching Hour”. That’s my absolute favourite Anne Rice book as well (I’m not a big fan of her emo-vamps), and the “family detour” was just fascinating to me. But yeah, Lasher and especially Taltos were a disappointment.
But if this is the Witching Hour for teenagers, I’m putting it on the library waiting list.
Rebecca