Beautiful Creatures, by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

so its been like 289347 years since ive written one of these and now im writing one so this one might be kind of bad but thats okay bc i dont care
so anyway beautiful creatures is one of my favorite books theres a series of 4 books (beautiful creatures, beautiful darkness, beautiful chaos, and beautiful redemption) and theyre soooo good.
 theyre set in a a small southern town in south carolina called Gatlin. Ethan Wate is the main character and he thinks hes normal (spoiler alert: hes not) but then this girl named lena duchannes moves to the town. her uncle is the "boo radley" of the town, and she doesnt fit in very well anyway. she is whats called a caster: she has powers to like create lighting and move stuff. you know. the usual. but more on that later.  so lena can communicate telepathically with ethan and they become friends and (spoiler alert) eventually more than that.
basically they both start getting creepy visions of their ancestors and they both realize that there is way more going on here. so this part gets really complicated and confusing to explain, but when i was reading i knew exactly what was happening; unfortunately its been a few months since ive read these books. (i read them in october) so yeah. but then a lot of spoopy stuff happens and they find out a bunch of stuff.
so basically lena is a caster but in her family (just her family no one elses) the casters don't get the power to choose whether they will be a light (good) or a dark (bad) caster. so i guess that means that the dark casters arent necessarily bad in her family, but more on that later. so lenas 16th birthday is approaching and she is going to become a full caster and whoever it is or whatever it is that chooses for her is going to choose. but lena becomes the exception to this no choice rule, so shes able to choose (so being the outcasts of the outcasts makes her normal: helpful hint: this isnt always true in real life) but the problem is if she chooses light, all the dark casters in her family die but if she chooses dark then the light casters die and she doesnt want to because like i said: theyre not necessarily evil or good. so she procrastinates and some serious stuff happens and basically shes given another year to choose.
 i know this is a really bad summary but its beEN A WHILE CUT ME SOME SLACK and im not doing the book any justice at all because not only is the magic/spooopy stuff plotline amazing, the whole southern small town thing is done amazzinngglyy and theyre such well written books and one of my favvvorite things is that thereS NO LOVE TRIANGLE!!!!!!!!!! NONE!!!!!!!!!! WHATSOEVER!!!!!!!!!!! UNTIL A LITTLE LATER IN THE SERIES BUT NOT IN THE FIRST BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and i loooveee ridley because she comes off all badass and unapproachable and sarcastic but actually she has feelings!!!hjesdf if you havent already noticed i have a thing for characters who hide their feelings (nico,leo,eight,finnick,will,jace,etc.) and yeah so but these books are super good and you should read them and also theres a movie which i havent watched yet but i think i should because the books are good but as much as i didnt do it justice, movies rarely do either.
but yeah overall opinion is 10/10 theyre addicting and so well written and the plotline is really original and it combines two really different worlds really well so yeah i know this post is way out of order and theres not all those things that i usually do so sorry but i havent done this in a while so my next one will be better (probably not but whatever)

so heres the book cover                           and heres the movie poster