This review was originally posted on http://www.rubysreads.com. 
 You've read this book before. The cover features a pretty girl in a pretty dress. The main character is a teenager living in a small town. Her parents are dead and her guardian is often away from home. Life is pretty normal. Until HE walks into town. Well, two HEs. Both good-looking, both strange, both mysterious. And both intensely interested in the heroine. 
 I don't know if this book came into my hands at the wrong time--though I suspect this was part of it--but it hit so many of my pet peeves all at once that it was one continuous eye-roll. The writing wasn't bad--but neither was it enough to save it from being generic. This is a book that strictly adheres to the teen paranormal formula of the moment. If you like that formula, then by all means, try this book. The love triangle alone will provide an excellent opportunity for readers to form teams based on their preference. I doubt that even the "shocking" ending will prevent this argument from happening. 
 If you're looking for something fresh and new to get you out of a reading slump, pass A Beautiful Dark by. Again, it's not that it's bad, it's that it has so little to offer that is new to readers of the genre, that I'd be highly unlikely to recommend it to anyone.