Book Review: Beautiful Darkness

2nd installment of the Caster Chronicles, Beautiful Darkness is another amazing novel. I have no idea why some people said it's boring. It's far from it. Maybe it doesn't have much lovey-dovey stuff, since this is about Ethan and Lena being apart, but it still has plenty of action and a continuous great plot.

I'm starting to think this is so much better than Twilight.

In this sequel, Lena Duchannes is trying to live with the fact that her Uncle Macon died after the battle at the end of the first book. She is also the only Caster who has one green eye and one gold eye, meaning she's stuck in the middle of Light and Dark, and she wasn't coping well with all the shock and started to act strange, especially toward Ethan, trying to shut him out of her life.





After Lena ran off with a guy, Ethan met someone called John Breed (who was the guy) while trying to find Lena. He also met a girl at the library, Liv Durand, and became friends. Lena noticed and appeared to be jealous and upset. Desperate to understand what was happening to Lena, Ethan also went to the Caster Library to find Marian, a Keeper who revealed a lot of secrets and surprises about people around Ethan and also himself. Later Ethan also realized why Lena had been acting strange, and what she was trying to do, setting off a string of events that would bring someone back from life.

That's what the book is about. The atmosphere is moody and dark, sort of gothic. As with most books with sequels, the middle sequels are always weaker than the first book. Beautiful Darkness is no exception, but it is interesting enough to keep readers wanting to follow up on the third book, Beautiful Chaos, and hoping the third will be better.

Rating: 4.5 Stars