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Book: Beautiful Creatures Author: Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl Publisher: Puffin Opinion: Ethan Wate lives in the town of Jackson * (?) in Gatlin County. “The Middle of Nowhere”. To paraphrase; it has no Starbucks, no McDonald’s and no movie theatre. A small, simple town. Nothing ever happened there. “There were no surprises in Gatlin.” Heh… Famous last words. As luck would have it – a new girl comes to town. Lena Duchannes – the hottest thing to hit Gatlin since Savannah Snow. To say her arrival causes a storm is a joke as well as a colossal understatement. Through a series of events, we come to find a lot of secrets, a lot deceit and a lot of bad decisions made with the best intentions. Quite a bit of Jackon’s history comes to light, culminating in a big showdown in the final chapters. However, we’re still left with a fairly open ending, as there will indeed be a sequel – much to my delight. The characters are quite believable and some of the minor characters are given decent

As soon as I saw the trailer, I was sold. Noooo... It was not "Poker Face" playing in the background. Although, that naturally raised my enjoyment of the clip. The way the speech seemed to flow naturally and the story truly looked funny. I thought: I would seriously, (and willingly), pay to watch this at the cinema. So we start with Olive, sitting down at her computer, starting a live web-cast. She is about to tell the story of her downward spiral from noticed to downright infamous, without omitting truly hated. When a rumour gets out that she's lost her v-plates, Olive becomes the talk of the high school. She does a poor job of dissuading people and the mill keeps turning. Chinese whispers is a gross understatement. However, after reluctantly helping a gay kid achieve some fame as a straight stud, Olive comes to achieve the rank of slut, skank - choose your colloquial synonym. All the social outcasts begin to go to her for help. As expected, it starts to go dow