Book Title: Dangerous Dream
Author: Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
“The rest of us had to make our own destiny.
Lena and I knew that better than anyone. Ridley and Link, they still had to learn it the hard way.
I guess that’s sort of where this whole story begins.”
Ethan from Dangerous Dream by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
Final Verdict: Not bad, but not nearly enough to tempt me back to this series.
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Book Title: Beautiful Chaos
Author: Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
“The Mortal world is in a state of beautiful chaos and destruction, which will lead to an exquisite end.”
Sarafine in Beautiful Chaos by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
Final Verdict: The best in the series, with a more coherent plot and less mopey teenagers. The trick is making it to this book.
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Book Title: Beautiful Darkness
Author: Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
“I was happy for a second. Then I felt like I was walling all the way down. Because she wasn’t thinking about us. She was thinking about her next birthday, the Seventeenth Moon. She was already counting down.
In the center of the heart, she didn’t write out names.
She wrote a number.”
Ethan Wate in Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
Final Verdict: Skim the first 100 pages, then sit back for a good read if you ignore the part of the plot that repeats.
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Beautiful Creatures (scroll down to reach Lynne’s addition)
Author: Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
“The thing they didn’t know was, I wasn’t into girls like Emily. She was pretty, but that was it. And looking at her didn’t make up for having to listen to what came out of her mouth. I wanted someone different, someone I could talk to about something other than parties and getting crowned at winter formal. A girl who was smart, or funny, or at least a decent lab partner. Maybe a girl like that was the real dream, but a dream was still better than a nightmare. Even if the nightmare was wearing a cheerleading skirt.”
Ethan Wate, Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
Final Verdict: When paired with the movie an intriguing book, a great summer/vacation book that will keep you reading until the end.
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Beautiful Creatures
Author: Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
“There are only two kinds of people in my town. The stupid and the stuck,” Ethan Wate, Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
Final Verdict: I would recommend you watch the Beautiful Creatures movie first. It’s better and you can decide whether you want to read the whole book because the ending in the book is very different to the movie.
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Frances and Lynne 