Aothor: Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
Reading level: Young Adult
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Rated 6/10
There were no surprises in Gatlin County.
We were pretty much the epicenter of the middle of nowhere.
At least, that's what I thought.
Turns out, I couldn't have been more wrong.
There was a curse.
There was a girl.
And in the end, there was a grave.
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. 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.
My Review
I thought it was an OK kinda book, nothing to get too much worked up about. The plot was original,at least I can say that. To me the book was boring in most places,I would have to quit reading and go do something else for a while til I could make myself read more later. There were some exciting parts,I give it that, but they were few and far inbetween for my taste. I was also annoyed by the fact that the writers didn't seem to know the south were the liberals during the revolutionary war and the first Republican president was the one in charge of the north. They went on about Ethan getting in trouble for some future liberal paper he might happen to write in the future so his history teacher made him argue on the side of pro slavery when they were doing a debate in history class. Liberals were all for pro slavery in the day so I don't know what the writers were thinking when they wrote that part. Ethan is 16 years old and has lived in Gatlin(that's in the south) his whole life where everything has basically stayed the same since the Revolutionary War in his eyes. His mother has died and he's left in the care of his nanny since birth(Amma) while his father stays up all night in his study and sleeps all day,only leaving to shower basically. He has weird dreams of himself and a girl he has never met that feels so real and keeps hearing the song sixteen moons. One day while at school he learns there is a new girl(Lena) that he's instantly drawn to. They get to know each other and soon he realizes she's the girl from his dreams and a girl like nobody he's ever met. Lena is a caster(someone with powers) who is scared of her sixteenth birthday in which fate will decide whether she is good or evil. That's basically all I'm giving away. Have fun reading it,if you can!
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