Beautiful Creatures (Book 1) cover art

Beautiful Creatures (Book 1)

 Preview

Get 30 days of Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30-day free trial. Cancel monthly.
Try for £0.00
More purchase options
Buy Now for £16.99

Buy Now for £16.99

About this listen

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, read by the actor Kevin T. Collins with Eve Bianco. Featuring original music by Michele McGonigle.

Is falling in love the beginning . . . Or the end?

In Ethan Wate's hometown there lies the darkest of secrets.

There is a girl.
Slowly, she pulled the hood from her head. Green eyes, black hair. Lena Duchannes.

There is a curse.
On the Sixteenth Moon, the Sixteenth Year, the Book will take what it's been promised. And no one can stop it.

In the end, there is a grave.
Lena and Ethan become bound together by a deep, powerful love. But Lena is cursed and on her sixteenth birthday, her fate will be decided.

Ethan never even saw it coming.

 Difficult Situations Family & Relationships Fiction Friendship Literature & Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy Fantasy

Critic reviews

Watch out Twilight and Hunger Games
Move over Twilight, there's a new supernatural saga in town
A headlong read from start to finish
All stars
Most relevant
I really enjoyed the book and when I heard that last sentence, I wondered if it was leaving a door open for a sequel and immediately checked back here. Now I just have to wait for the rest of the trilogy and hope they are as engaging and entertaining!

Interesting!!! a good read....

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This was geared towards the Twilight lot, but it was still a good listen. I really like it when it's almost like a radio play and they add sound effects, I find it brings much more of an atmosphere to the ears!

Typical boy meets girl, nobody understands them kind of thing; but added deep South history which made it more interesting.

Tween Market

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This is one of the rare occassions where the film is better than the book. Of course, we get more details and a more indepth story, but it's actually worse than the film. The ending doesn't really resolve, the story is convoluted and the additional details actually don't add up and there is a lot of loose ends. The reading was a bit strange, i can't put my finger on it, but it made the characters even more annoying than they already were. for some reason both Lena and Ethan are pretty flat and lifeless, not enough clear character development, or at least not written well enough to be satiafying and relatable. I like the idea of the story, love the southern elements. I like a good coming of age story, so I enjoyed it enough to listen through, but I enjoy the film way more than the book and I feel disappointed.

film better written

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
book one of a series. very long but it does build well. magic and mystery story I will have to get the rest as this one has sparked my interest.

series

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
So well narrated and so well structured and put together. Forget the casting element! For those who have lived outside the 'click' of the popular what ever your age you will feel such empathy with Lena ... You cannot help but fall in love with Ethan and Lena and their outcome as well as the supporting characters! So much better than the film which doesn't really do the book as much justice as it should.

Brilliantly beautiful

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews