So engrossed in this quirky series that I have already bought the whole series! Ethan realizes that John was the one Lena had run off with. Suddenly, Ethan touches an old locket that is sitting on the ground, and he begins to see a vision of the past. Started off quickly and you get attached to the characters. Despite all this, Ethan and Lena are . The next time they had seen each was Ridley's unannounced appearance in Beautiful Creatures. Amma then blames Macon for the outcome of things that resulted in Ethan's must-be death and vows never to forgive him for it. Then, the plot becomes the point of view of Ridley. Due to being a Natural/Cataclyst, Lena's casting and power abilities are beyond the strength of a normal and ordinary Caster along with additional power something which often frightened Lena since she was unable to control the great power within her. Macon is upset that Amma has not stopped Ethan from meeting with Lena, as it could be dangerous for both teenagers. I don't want to see you get hurt, and that's what will happen if you get too close to me. Amma was initially against Lena and Ethan's relationship knowing the risks the two would be taking since Ethan was a mortal and Lena a caster. He meets a mysterious new girl, Lena Duchannes. Sarafine, in an attempt to convince her to turn Dark, offers a way for her to be with Ethan physically and have a future together if she agrees to turn Dark. Lena had not seen Ridley since until the events of Beautiful Creatures transformed as a new person and personality after a year's absence. Lena loves her uncle very much and is closest to her in her entire family. Beautiful Creatures is the first book of The Caster Chronicles series, written by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. Along with these powers, Lena also has elemental control, being able to start an earthquake with one stomp of her foot and cause a fire with one blink of her eye. Ethan and Lena's relationship is one of the main and important plot lines of the series. ", "Feelings for him? As Ethan drives, he nearly runs over Lena. I love how this story has so many twists and turns, and surprises that leave you breathtaken. What happened to Macon's father, Silas? Kami is a cofounder of the YALLFEST kid lit book festival and the author of five solo novels, including her Bram Stoker Award-nominated novels Unbreakable and Unmarked (THE LEGION series) and The X-Files Origins: Agent of Chaos. After I finished the series I found myself missing the characters! Then they study it to see if they can find a way to keep Lena from becoming Dark. A mysterious young girl is waiting for him on a Civil War battlefield. Beautiful Creatures Quotes. Because of the strong intensity of her love towards Ethan, Lena has a strong jealous side. How did Ridley get John in the Archlight? He would never tell me who I can and cant dance with., "I don't think I could ever love anything the way I love you., The Mortals get so much more time, and they dont even read around here., Yeah, right. But when Ethan urged her to go with him, Lena did not hesitate to kiss him in a somewhat overly passionate manner before shooting a look directly at Liv "meaningfully.") After finding a locket together that seems to tie their families together they proceed to look into it, growing closer to each other. But Ethan is barely able to hold the two back from clawing at each other. The authors have put a new spin on what has become an overworked genre of supernatural boy meets mortal girl or vice/ versa, etc. Lots of people have been asking what Lena's charm necklace looks like in the Beautiful Creatures Novels. Lena then starts to sob and insists she won't make it without him and he just couldn't ask her to live without him. In the middle of the day I just start thinking about Ethan,Lena,Ridley,Link,John,Liv,Macon,Amma,and Marian andi have to tell my self its just a book . However, upon moving to Gatlin, Lena meets a teenage resident of the town named Ethan Wate- a boy who seems to be the exact same guy whom she has been seeing in her dreams. Thanks to my little sister for the suggestion! In order to help the teenagers fight off the Incubuses and Dark Casters inside the Sea Cave, Leah Ravenwood, Macon's sister and a Succubus, goes with them. The Sisters tell him that the locket comes from the year when General Sherman burned every plantation in Gatlin, except for Ravenwood Manor. It never becomes dull, touches your heart, and makes you understand life in a beautiful way. Lena and Ethan search desperately to figure out which one of them is the "One Who Is Two," when its revealed it was one of them. I didn't know you were a real person. (It is said by Macon that Ethan is the very first boy that she has ever displayed a romantic interest in.). The manga adaptation of the novel was released in February, 2013, under the same title. During the town's annual County Fair, Lena shows up wearing Ridley's type of clothing (overall that makes her look easy). The mothers of the mean girls believe Lena is responsible for the incident, and they sign a petition to have Lena expelled from school. PG-13. (Though Ethan is later revived by Lena and Amma.). The Duchannes have it tough: they never know whether they'll turn good or evil, but the curse doesn't end there in the film version. In the days after Macon's death, Ethan hears a new song called "Seventeen Moons" playing on his iPod, and he knows that the fight between Light and Dark Casters is not yet over. Link then tells him about the day they met on a bus in kindergarten when Link gave Ethan a Twinkie that was on the floor; it wasn't and he just made that part up. I was a little disappointed in the final book - "Beautiful Redemption". In reaction, Sarafine murdered him by setting the house on fire and leaving him to die in the flames; also nearly killing Lena in the process. I'm sure there are many DAR chapters that would never dream of ostracizing and criminalizing a family in their community the way these characters do. One night after these events, Lena sneaks into Ethan's bedroom wearing one of his oversized t-shirts that ends at her middle upper thigh and shorts underneath and crawls into his bed next to him. She is shown to be very much in love with Ethan and often pushed him away in the first and second novels, believing it was for his own good and believing that by doing so, she was protecting him from herself and from getting hurt. Also it is noted it no longer harms Ethan when he touches/kisses her, resulting in a future for the two of them. Lena soon even begins to grow so close to him that she soon reveals her supernatural family heritage and how she is a Caster. Before moving to Gatlin, Lena begins to have recurring dreams of a teenage boy who saves her. It is something of a running gag in the series for Lena to accidentally set random objects on fire. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! The people introduced in Beautiful Creatures were a lot more relatable thus making them more believable as actual adolescents in the modern time period. In Ethan's early conversations with Lena Duchannes (Alice Englert), he notices that she is reading Charles Bukowski's You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense, a book of poetry published in 1986. Ethan desperately wants to be with . When Sarafine discovered this plot, she murdered him by setting the house on fire and leaving him to die in the flames and leaving Lena to die as well. Ethan, Lena and Link (Ethan's best friend) are alone on a lake because of an incident that took place at the high school's parking lot. The otherworldly inhabitants in "Beautiful Creatures," a pop Southern Gothic amusement . Back in Gatlin, when Ethan goes to see Lena at her mansion, she reveals to him that she is going to run away before her family leaves and that she has put a Cast on him, one that will make sure he is unable to tell anyone even if he wants to. She and Ridley seem to have a somewhat tense relationship throughout the novel, due to Ridley's new transformation as a new Dark Siren, but it is implied they still do care for each other. ", "In case something happens tonight, I just wanted you to know; I love you, Ethan. He is looking in mirrors and sees a whole other person. Ethan and Lena go to the Caster Library. Ridley is with a guy who is John Breed. Am I Dark, or am I Light? Beautiful Creatures was signed by Little,Brown,and Company for a four-book series,the Caster Chronicles,with the follow-up books titled: Fall under the spell of the Beautiful Darkness, the sequel to the instant NYT bestselling gothic fantasy, Beautiful Creatures! Sixteen-year-old Ethan Wate lives in Gatlin, S.C., but dislikes his small town and would like to move away. The day of Lena's 16th birthday, Ethan goes to Ravenwood Manor to see her. The love that Lena and Ethan have for each other is something immeasurable, and you can feel it within yourself when you read how Ethan expresses it. This is an amazing series. The first point of connection between the two main characters is their love of reading. Arriving for his first day of junior year, Ethan notices newcomer Lena Duchannes . However, on each Caster's 16th birthday they are to be "claimed" by either the Light or the Darkness, otherwise known as good or evil. Lena had went to see Ridley to see what was going on and saw Ridley scared and confided in Lena that she thinks she is going Dark and left to prevent herself from harming Lena or the family. Ethan keeps the old locket with him and asks his three great aunts, known as the Sisters, about it. Therefore having no future together to marry, have kids, be together like they desire, etc. They then share one final moment together with Ethan Kelting, "Goodbye." You wont find this theme anywhere else: Southern gothic romance. Back in the tunnels still furious with jealousy and anger Ethan nearly, on an act of impulse, kisses Liv and accidentally kelts of the near encounter (making it possible that Lena most likely heard which she later confirms bitterly before she leaves that she did). The books are set in a fictional town called Gatlin in South Carolina. Soon later, while Ethan goes to see the Seer, he shows Ethan images and implies Ethan is the "One Who Is Two." Ethan Wate thought he was getting used to the strange, impossible events happening in Gatlin, his small Southern town. Lena is described as a frighteningly beautiful girl with deep and shining green eyes that change shades according to current emotion and whose dark curly hair is highlighted by her pale skin. In the novel it is also revealed she was actually the one who murdered Ethan's mother. Since Lena had very little, if not any, control of her abilities and power she often misdirected her abilities and power while in use. Ethan will come back - you'll see. However, though, things smooth over in time and they are left as friends. The other half of him tries to stop Ethan from throwing himself over and they fight and battle. After the dinner, Ethan sits in Lena's bedroom as Lena explains that Ridley is a Siren, a Dark Caster with the ability to persuade people to do anything she wants. Macon promises to Ethan he will take care of Amma as she cries out to Ethan as Macon holds her back knowing there was nothing left to do to save Ethan. You're a Mortal. Had a hard time putting the book down. And did I mention my cute little British accent? Lena's jealousy is shown to even have Ethan on his toes; resulting in his nervous and cautious approach to the amount of time with his association with Liv when Lena had been jealous of her before the two eventually made amends. Lena's cousin Ridley arrives at the formal and takes revenge for Lena's humiliation by mentally turning on the sprinkler system in the school. Kami Garcia is a #1 New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author. Their relationship hits a huge roadblock in Beautiful Darkness, when Lena sacrificed Macon's life for Ethan's after Sarafine murdered him and was drenched in guilt about it. Meanwhile, after his death, Ethan is also searching for ways to return to the mortal world in the other world of the dead. ", "I didn't expect you to be here. After reading the first book in this series, I devoured the remaining three over a week and a half (Audiobook versions). Ethan hears Lena playing the song "Sixteen Moons" on her viola in orchestra, which unsettles him. ", "He's not dead. Despite this revelation, Lena warns Ethan against getting to know her, telling him its for his own good and safety. Really, we're just friends, even though I'm smarter and blonder than the rest of you combined. She is also the greatest, strongest and most powerful character in the series. After they pronounce Amma legally dead, Lena and Ethan continue to grow stronger through this experience, (example; Lena running up to him and wrapping her legs around him and kissing him repeatedly). Lena is crying in a garden full of lemon trees, and she begins to talk with Ethan. Beautiful Creatures: Directed by Richard LaGravenese. This inciting even more jealousy on Ethan's part who was secretly watching these moments in visions due to Lucille, his aunts' caster cat, who was allowing him to see what she was seeing between the two. Despite fans wariness of how Englert will bring Lena to the big screen, Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl have both stated that Englert, having visited the movie set while the movie was being filmed, is "exactly the way they pictured Lena.". She also painfully strips Ridley of her Siren powers after revealing that she is aware of her betrayal in order to save Lena. The intimacy issue eventually comes to a resolve in the final novel, Beautiful Redemption, when Ethan notices kissing and touching Lena no longer physically bothers him after he is revived in the Mortal world. Black tank that rode up on her stomach, black skirt about five inches short, streak of blue in her hair and black-rimmed eyes shocking Ethan and drawing attention from nearby guys. I read this entire series in a few days great amazing it always kept me on the edge of my seat. She and Abraham in the second follow-up novel Beautiful Darkness attempts to force her to turn Dark, but Lena is saved by Ethan, Macon and everyone else. He then makes her promise to Bind the New Order and do her part in all of this stating that if she didn't then everything he was going to do would be for nothing. On the Sixteenth Moon, the Sixteenth Year, the Book will take what it's been promised. Her main plot-line deals with her deepest fear of becoming Dark and turning into a cruel and evil person as hermother did and trying to resist and fight her Dark abilities. This causing Ethan to quickly say how he meant Amma and his aunts. You can't understand. Lena, though, continues to be somewhat possessive about Ethan; even getting silently angry and jealous when so much as hearing about Ethan's past romantic history and other girls he had been with or gone on dates with (though it is stated that Lena is his first real girlfriend). Get help and learn more about the design. In the library, Lena faints and is again spiritually attacked by Sarafine, but she wakes up when Ethan kisses her. What channel is beautiful creatures on? The only reason I rate this three star is that the second book is absolutely and definitely NOT FOR CHILDREN. In Beautiful Chaos, it is soon discovered that Ethan is the must-be sacrifice in order for the Mortal and Caster worlds to be spared from destruction after Lena's claiming causes the balance to be thrown drastically off course due to claiming herself as both Dark and Light. In the end, there is a grave. One-shot about what happened after the ending of the movie Beautiful Creatures. However, when Ridley performs a furor cast, causing everyone the wave-like spell hits to act angrily, Liv openly expresses her ferocious feelings towards Lena calling her "emo" and selfish and even slaps her accusing her of not caring about Ethan; bashing her greatly. Therefore Lena is the greatest, strongest, mightiest and most powerful character in the whole book series. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. Loved the books. And no one can stop it. In one last attempt to save Ethan, Amma calls on the Greats to try to save Ethan but they turn their backs on her (literally) knowing there was nothing they can do, leaving Amma in despair. Lena must also kill someone she loves in order to break . Lena barely even hid her feelings of hatred about her towards Liv herself. The Caster Chronicles Wiki is a FANDOM Books Community. She also tries to find ways to be with Ethan, her true love, since it is discovered that Casters and Mortals cannot be together sexually or physically without the mortal getting killed. Ethan Wate. Every page you turn leaves you wondering what more will happen, and believe me, much more does happen. It was a bit creepy and dealt with trauma, but all in all was pretty great. And in the midst of things, strange things are happening to Ethan. The series left me with a lot of questions. It was very good, had very little cursing and sex. In Ethans early conversations with Lena Duchannes (Alice Englert), he notices that she is reading Charles Bukowskis You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense, a book of poetry published in 1986. I couldn't put them down. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay . This is more than shown during his relationship with Lena and his unmovable determination throughout the course of the series to find a way to be with her mainly due to him being a Mortal and her a Caster. Though soon later in the series, she fully accepts the fact that she loves him and needed him in her life. This is best shown with Liv; whom Lena overall hated due to heavily suspecting she held feelings towards Ethan and, as a result, treated her rather coldly and harshly. This series started with the movie (which I was not a fan of). Even though he knew it wasn't. Lena has stopped writing in her tattered old journal that she used to always carry around with her. He reads Vonnegut and Kerouac, Salinger and Krakauer, and he dreams of going to the real places within his favorite books. There was some fan speculation about whether or not Englert was fit for the role of the franchise since her hair isn't black as Lena's is described in the series. ", "Guys. As Ethan and John walk up to the water tower, Amma shows up saying she was "there the day he was born and she'll be there the day he dies" but it wasn't going to be "today." I don't care if it's a hundred degrees and every blade of grass dies. But Ethan insists she try and she goes hysterical altogether pleading with him to find another way; begging him not to sacrifice himself. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever. This angers Lena especially after learning how Macon was not planning on telling her this detail until after Lena Claimed herself when it would be too late to change anything. Lena is allowed to return to school. You fall in love with the characters and want to keep reading until it's all finished. She is known to often wear Chuck Taylors type of shoes, her necklace of "junk" that contains memories of her life and a journal of poetry she's often seen with. 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