Beautiful Creatures
- Themes
- Inherited family curse, Hidden supernatural power, Small-town secrets
Who it’s for
- Readers drawn to paranormal romance in an isolated Southern town
- Readers interested in inherited curses and hidden powers
Where it sits
How strongly BookFrontier reads the book as belonging to each subject.
Nearest books
Closest matches from our semantic model, which compares what books are about, then ordered by what their readers also loved.
Once a WitchCarolyn MacCullough, Hannah Friedman64% matchShares Wizards & Witches for Teens and Paranormal & Supernatural for Teens
SwoonNina Malkin58% matchShares YA Fantasy Romance and Paranormal & Supernatural for Teens
The Shadow QueenC. J. Redwine58% matchShares YA Fantasy Romance
GallantV. E. Schwab64% match
Angel EyesShannon Dittemore58% matchShares Paranormal & Supernatural for Teens
The Raven BoysMaggie Stiefvater58% matchShares Paranormal & Supernatural for Teens
Briar GirlsRebecca Kim Wells68% match
House of Roots and RuinErin A. Craig66% match
For older readers: Cinder House, The Bone Season, The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery
Start with three books, and this one can be the first.
Members get a new edition every morning: a route out from their books to essays, research and talks, with the reason for each.
Join the waitlistAbout this book
Secrets, strangers, and curses will lure you into the first book of the instant New York Times bestselling contemporary gothic fantasy series, where a stirring paranormal romance unfolds in an isolated southern town.
Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family for generations.
Continue reading
But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps, and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.
Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.
In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything.
Publisher details
Publisher categories
- Contemporary YA Fantasy
- YA Fantasy Romance
- Paranormal & Supernatural for Teens
- Paranormal YA Romance
Show all 5 publisher categories
- Gothic Fiction
- Authors
- Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
- Published
- December 1, 2009
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Contemporary YA Fantasy