The Lady In White

Now that I find myself with some time to kill, I find myself re-watching some old gems that I loved as a kid. But to label the Lady in White as a rewatch would be a lie as I never did get to see the end, or even the middle.
This aired one Christmas Eve when I was small. And despite my loud protests I was sent to bed to await sleep and Santa’s visit. (Granted, the excitement of Santy did outweigh my disappointment over not being able to watch the whole film.) I was sent to bed with a glass of milk and a desire to finish the story of the lady in white in my head.
This is the thing with imagination. Your own is always better!

Beautiful Creatures

Beautiful Creatures sees the budding romance between small-town boy Ethan Wate and the new and mysterious girl, Lena Duchannes.
As the niece of notorious ‘shut-in’ resident, Macon Ravenwood, Lena is instantly branded with the oddball iron by all but Ethan, who simply knows her as the girl of his dreams. Literally.
A ‘caster,’ Lena counts down to her sixteenth birthday when, in accordance to her family tradition, she will be claimed for either the ‘dark’ or the ‘light.’ And the story deals with the strong connection between Ethan and Lena as they both strive for a loophole in the rules that will allow Lena her own choice.

Don’t you just love when the setting of a novel becomes a character in its own right? If you answered ‘yes’ then I agree. Gatlin is described in such detail that you dream about the place! Or I did, at least.
The continuing referencing to ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ fitted perfectly as I couldn’t help but think Gatlin was a lot like ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ in the sense that what you see on the surface of Gatlin is not what lies at its heart. Just as in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ the perspective of a young girl’s (Scout) narration doesn’t really see the true essence of the events around her. She sees it all through innocent eyes.
And we see Gatlin through the naive eyes of Ethan.