Valentine’s Day, Schmalentine’s Day. For fans of the Castor Chronicles, today has little to with real love and much more to do with paranormal YA romance Beautiful Creatures. Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s Southern Gothic series were blockbuster novels in their own right, but today, Beautiful Creatures heads to the big screen.
Reviews of the film are already rolling in, with plenty of comparisons to Twilight (both good and bad). EW calls it “‘Twilight’ with the sexes reversed,” and Variety calls it “a tween-friendly ‘True Blood.’”
However, the film’s faithfulness to the book may not be what fans hoped for. According to the Boston Globe, “Sometimes it doesn’t pay to read the book. Based on the whimpers of the young women coming out of a preview screening, ‘Beautiful Creatures,’ the movie, isn’t nearly faithful enough to ‘Beautiful Creatures,’ the novel.”
Oh, well. Emma Thompson’s in it. That must count for something.
We interviewed Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl for Beautiful Chaos, the third book in the the Castor Chronicles. Read our interview with the authors!
Will you spend your Valentine’s Day cozied up in a theater with this all-star cast?
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