Let's Booktalk: Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

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Beautiful Creatures is about a sixteen year old boy that has always thought he was different from others, but he still has a decent amount of friends.

Ethan Wate is from Gatin, South Carolina. He really dislikes the town and wants to move away. Lately he has been having dreams about this creature, well more like human, but he dreams of her like someone who is different from any other person in the world.

Lena Duchannes is also a very different girl. She has different traits, or let's just say she is unique. Lena also dreams about a guy who is different. Well, Lena had to move to Gatin with her uncle. After she moved and started school, she observed everyone. And, BOOM! She saw the guy she's been seeing in her dreams, his name was Ethan Wate. Yes! The boy that also has been dreaming about a girl, Lena.

Well they met in a class, but Lena had people talking about her because of her family. They were saying her family were freaks or devil worshipers. What they didn't know is that what they were saying was half true. They were just starting to gossip and being jerks. But, Lena's family weren't devil worshipers or freaks, they were so much more.

Ethan and Lena finally met in a road where her car broke down and Ethan saw her there, offering her a ride home. When they got to her house, Lena's uncle came out and kicked Ethan off of the property without so much as touching him. Lena was told to get into the house. Her uncle said she was not aloud to ever see or talk to Ethan again, but she didn't understand why. Ethan, who had never done anything to the uncle didn't understand why. He never did anything bad and he was a really good kid. It wasn't until their live's changed and their paths united that they without knowing...

Well, let's just say without each other, the world itself could be ruled by darkness.

Booktalk written by Alexis Cano

Let’s Booktalk: Dreadfully Ever After by Steve Hockensmith

Four years after their union, Darcy and Elizabeth are in marital bliss. They go for walks together, visit family and friends together, decapitate flesh eating zombies together, just your typical couple stuff. Things take a turn for the worse though when Darcy becomes infected with the unmentionable decease, and Lizzy is forced to enlist the help of Darcy’s aunt.

The deal. Aunt Catherine will only help Darcy if Lizzy agrees to never see him again. The dilemma. Darcy awakes to find his wife gone on the hunt for the cure, and his infected cousin trying to seduce him. The truth. Zombies love to eat brains.

What will fate bestow upon our two lovers? Can there be a happily ever after, even when your undead? Or, is it best to just chop your head off?

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Let’s Booktalk: Sense and Sensibilty and Sea Monsters by Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters

After losing their father, the Dashwood sisters and their mother find themselves in need of new living quarters, as they cannot inherit the house or money left by their father. Sea monsters though can make finding suitable living quarters difficult, not to mention they do cramp a girl’s style when it comes to looking for romance.

England’s greatest triumph, the Submarine Station Beta. A dome structure located in the deep sea of the English channel, where the good citizens of England can live in harmony and safety from sea monsters. But it does not protect the Dashwood sisters from the pain of a broken heart. Will the Dashwood women find happiness and love? Or, will defeating a sea creature from the deep prove to be the easier task?

Let’s Booktalk: Chupacabra by Roland Smith

Nine is a creature of legend. But, he was made a captive by Noah Blackwood, a supposed animal conservationist with a secret taste for collecting the endangered and dangerous. Nine is one of the few Chupacabras in existence, and he is being used by Noah to hunt and kill those who come between him and his dark intentions.

Marty and Grace are twins, who are searching for their parents. Their Uncle Ted has vendetta against his former father-in-law Noah, and they will have to navigate through a terrifying world of prehistoric creatures and their masters.

“Nine licked the dried salty blood. Hunt! Fast! The commands shouted in his head. He hated the woman. He hated the box. He wanted to kill the woman. He wanted to drink the woman’s blood. But he could not.”




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Let’s Booktalk: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame Smith

Elizabeth Bennet is a typical English lady. She is the second oldest of five daughters, and during a time when women do not inherit their father’s fortune, she must rely on finding a husband. This does pose a problem, for one her family lives in the country where there are few eligible men to choose from, and secondly most of England is overrun with the unmentionable creature, the zombie.

Hacking off zombie heads is hardly a way to find true love, then again you won’t meet anyone quite like Mr. Darcy. He is a man of good fortune, handsome features, zombie killing skills, and proud. Can Lizzy find love, a good marriage, and remain the strong zombie killing woman she enjoys being so much? Or, will prejudice and a few zombie attacks keep romance out of her grasp?

Let's Booktalk--Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause

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Vivian Gandillon is a smart, beautiful, strong sixteen year-old woman. She likes chocolate, running through the woods, and whether the moon is full or not she can shapeshift into a wolf. But, never make the mistake of calling her a werewolf. Her family is from an ancient line of loups-garoux, who were blessed by the moon goddess Selene with the ability to transform into a wolf at will. Something to be proud of, right?

“I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, one as hated as the other” (Klause 1). A member of the pack is killing humans. For Vivian this only brings back memories of her father and her loss. To make matters worse she has met a human boy, Aidan. She is proud of who she is and where she comes from, but can she trust him? Can she trust herself?

“Her heart broke for him because he feared, because he couldn't see the wonder, then raged at him because he made her feel unclean” (Klause 169). Vivian cares for Aidan, but he is human, and may never accept her for who she really is, a wolf in human skin. Gabriel is the new leader of the loups-garoux pack, and inadvertently Vivian declared herself his mate, but she wants Aidan her human. When someone loves you they accept you for who you are, right?