Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl

This book was SUPER long.  I saw the cover and was instantly drawn in.  It has almost 500 pages I think I recall & it literally took me half of the book to get into it.  It was so boring at the beginning.  I like the two main characters, Ethan and Lena though.  The plot of the book is pretty simple and could've been told in less pages!  Lena is a caster, kinda like a witch, but her family has a long lineage of being casters.  When you are a caster, when you turn sixteen you are "claimed" by the dark or light.  In other words, you become a good caster or an evil caster.  You have absolutely no choice in the decision what so ever.  What happens is Lena comes to town, Ethan finds her which weirdly enough he has been seing her in his dreams.  They are instantly drawn to eachother.  Lena's sixteenth birthday is drawing near and she's scared of being claimed by darkness.  Her and Ethan find out that they have a history and Lenas family was cursed so that all girls will be claimed by darkness on their sixteenth birthday for sixteen years.  Lena is the last one, so she has a a decision to make.  If she chooses light, everyone in her family who is dark will die.  If she chooses darkness everyone in her family who is light will die.  Once it got to the middle of the book where it picked up, the story got pretty good.  In the end, something weird happened that's never happened before.   But all her family who was dark dissappeared even though Lena didn't actually choose Light or Dark.  The second book which is called Beautiful Darkness is already on store shelves.  I'll probably be waiting until the summer to read it though.  It is the same length as this one and I just don't want to waste my time reading such a long book if its going to be boring in the beginning again!  But I will definitely read it, just after I've read a lot of other  books that I have on my to read list.  =)  Happy Reading!