Book Review: Beautiful Chaos

This is the third book in the Castor Chronicles written by Kami Garcia and Maragert Stohl.  I' m going to try my best not to give anything away, but you may want to shield your eyes anyway, if you haven't read it yet. 

It was a very satisfying read, though not as good as Creatures or Darkness.  Chaos focused mostly on Ethan and I felt all the other characters kind of took on less important roles.  Keeping with the recipe of the books, the flashbacks showed us Sarafine's early days with Lena, which were really good.  I feel like there could be a whole book about Sarafine after reading the flashbacks.

 

Character wise we got to learn more about John and I thouroughly enjoyed it.  He was really cool and like the turn his story is taking.  Liv seemed to take a step backwards and two steps forward, which I found frustrating, but am in the end, happy with.  We still don't see much of Ethan's dad, but you'll be surprised with how Mrs. English plays into everything.

 

The ending was anti-climatic, but still breath-taking and I picked up book four right away.

 

In the end, I give it five stars.

Book Review: Beautiful Darkness

Beautiful Darkness is the sequel to Beautiful Creatures and as such this is going to be a rather thin review because I can't give away any spoilers.

This book picks up right after the last one, give or take a few days, and doesn't cover a whole year, but rather about a month.  The story has a rather focused plot-line and for the majority Lena and Ethan aren't together, which threw a screw into things.  However the new characters, John Breed and Liv, are neither a breath of fresh air or dead-weights, but were certainly necessary.  The old characters all took steps forward, especially Link, and the plot moved quickly enough.  It kept me breathless throughout the whole thing, and so I give it 5-Stars.  Great read, super excited for the next one, but I'll take a slight detour and read Dream Dark first.