Cronicile casterilor (Vol.1: A 16-a luna - Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl la editura RAO)

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"Nu existau surprize în Gatlin County. Eram practic în mijlocul ţării nicăieri. Cel puţin aşa credeam. Ce tare mă înşelam! Exista un blestem. Exista o fată. Şi, în final, va exista şi un mormânt." Dragoste încă din prima clipă... Încă înainte să o fi zărit pentru prima dată, ea i-a bântuit visele: Lena, fata cea nouă de la şcoala lui Ethan. Lena, fata cu părul negru şi ochi verzi, Lena, cea care locuieşte în Ravenwood, vechea plantaţie pe care toţi cei din Gatlin o ocolesc, toţi cu excepţia lui Ethan. Lena, de care Ethan se va îndrăgosti fără scăpare. Dar Lena este urmărită de un blestem, pe care ea încearcă să îl ascundă cu orice chip. Ea este o Caster, provine dintr-o familie de vrăjitoare şi la a şaisprezecea aniversare, ea va fi chemată. Atunci se va decide dacă ea va fi o vrăjitoare a luminii sau o vrăjitoare a întunericului... Ethan ştie că nu are de ales, lui îi este scris să o iubească pe Lena pe vecie. Dar va putea ea să-i rămână alături indiferent cărei părţi îi va aparţine?

Ethan Wate used to think of Gatlin, the small Southern town he had always called home, as a place where nothing ever changed. Then he met mysterious newcomer Lena Duchannes, who revealed a secret world that had been hidden in plain sight all along. A Gatlin that harbored ancient secrets beneath its moss-covered oaks and cracked sidewalks. A Gatlin where a curse has marked Lena's family of powerful Supernaturals for generations. A Gatlin where impossible, magical, life-altering events happen.
Sometimes life-ending.
Together they can face anything Gatlin throws at them, but after suffering a tragic loss, Lena starts to pull away, keeping secrets that test their relationship. And now that Ethan's eyes have been opened to the darker side of Gatlin, there's no going back. Haunted by strange visions only he can see, Ethan is pulled deeper into his town's tangled history and finds himself caught up in the dangerous network of underground passageways endlessly crisscrossing the South, where nothing is as it seems.

Ethan Wate thought he was getting used to the strange, impossible events happening in Gatlin, his small Southern town. But now that Ethan and Lena have returned home, strange and impossible have taken on new meanings. Swarms of locusts, record-breaking heat, and devastating storms ravage Gatlin as Ethan and Lena struggle to understand the impact of Lena's Claiming. Even Lena's family of powerful Supernaturals is affected - and their abilities begin to dangerously misfire. As time passes, one question becomes clear: What - or who - will need to be sacrificed to save Gatlin?
For Ethan, the chaos is a frightening but welcome distraction. He's being haunted in his dreams again, but this time it isn't by Lena - and whatever is haunting him is following him out of his dreams and into his everyday life. Even worse, Ethan is gradually losing pieces of himself - forgetting names, phone numbers, even memories. He doesn't know why, and most days he's too afraid to ask.
Sometimes there isn't just one answer or one choice. Sometimes there's no going back. And this time there won't be a happy ending.