93 books16.5k followers. After Lena confirms it, Link realizes he is turning into an Incubus. After this, Lena cries herself to sleep. I looked up at the sky and thought, I'm going to love this person because even the sky looks differentLena, recalling the moment she began to fall in love with Ethan in Beautiful Chaos. 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). And no one can stop it. She is Ethan Wate's love interest in the first novel of the series, eventually becoming his girlfriend. He then simply holds her as she sobs into his chest and tells her, "It's okay." From Lena's point-of-view, midnight strikes, and she sees her mother stab Ethan. However, given the plot details of the last installment of the series, it has been confirmed that Ethan did in fact die. At least, that's what I thought. The books were so much better as everyone should know and agree. Ethan soon meets Lena's older cousin Ridley, a seductively dressed and very persuasive girl. Lena and Ethan become bound together by a deep, powerful love. Amma uses magic to suspend time so she and Lena can talk to each other while the family sits by, frozen and unaware. She is very kind and will always stay true and protect her friends. Lena is afraid that she will become evil as Ridley is and be claimed as Dark on her upcoming birthday. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Meanwhile, little time after, Liv and Ethan both come to the conclusion that Sarafine was trying to pull the seventeenth moon out of time to get Lena to claim herself. Ethan then states they were talking about lives and the people they loved and Lena responds shaking her head saying, "I don't care. Lena (before meeting Ethan) was a loner having always stuck to herself and being very mysterious, always by herself and very lonely. Beautiful Creatures is a 2009 American young adult novel written by authors Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl and the first book in the Caster Chronicles series. Beautiful Creatures: Directed by Richard LaGravenese. Together, they uncover dark secrets about their respective families, their history, and their town. 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." Suddenly, Ethan touches an old locket that is sitting on the ground, and he begins to see a vision of the past. The first point of connection between the two main characters is their love of reading. She and Ridley grew up together side by side and were close and had been like sisters as they grew and developed into young teens. Ridley is with a guy who is John Breed. Arriving for his first day of junior year, Ethan notices newcomer Lena Duchannes . He sees Lena directly afterwards and tells her he is the needed-to-be sacrifice and they spend the night in each others arms not talking; just holding each other in tortured silence. 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. In the novel, Sarafine makes her first appearance in years attempting to convince Lena to turn Dark since she is given the rare choice to choose her own Claiming. Lena and Ethan become bound together by a deep, powerful love. She is also the greatest, strongest and most powerful character in the series. What book comes after beautiful chaos? Ethan has to leave the party when he hears that his father, Mitchell, is standing on the balcony of a local museum, and appears as if he is going to jump. But now that Ethan and Lena have returned home from the Great Barrier, strange and impossible have taken on new meanings. The things that I'm afraid of? Macon forbids Lena to attend the party because of the potential dangers, but Lena sneaks out to enjoy the festivities anyway. How did Ridley get John in the Archlight? 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. Both times Macon used his powers in the movie has to do with Ethan. The Dangerous Creatures series will weave in other Beautiful Creatures characters, including Ethan, Lena, John, Liv; each book will be set, for the most part, in a different city. After seeing him, Lena embraces him and sobs into his shirt. Not going to spoil it for you. 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. He is looking in mirrors and sees a whole other person. Despite this revelation, Ethan's attraction to Lena grows, and he asks her to go on a movie date with him. Link freely accepted Lena since Ethan liked her and grew to be one of the few people who treated her kindly in the first novel of the series. Ethan goes to Amma to confront her about her having known the whole time he was going to die. It is also told that Lena, throughout her childhood, had never expressed romantic or any interest in boys nor ever made any efforts to attract the attention of them as Ridley did as a kid either. Halfway between though, Ethan learns that Lena made a deal with the Book of Moons, a powerful Caster book, for Ethan's life after Sarafine killed him. As a half-Cataclyst, it is unknown if she will develop Cataclyst powers like. I appreciated the various struggles that the characters went through - and that there was depth and complexity to the characters and many of the situations they faced. Started off quickly and you get attached to the characters. Liv and Lena's relationship was, for about half of the series, hostile and tense since Lena was fully aware of Liv's feelings for Ethan. She is the coauthor of the BEAUTIFUL CREATURES series, which has been published in 51 countries and 37 languages, with over 10 million copies in print. Her extended family of Light Casters is with her. Slowly, she pulled the hood from her head Green eyes, black hair. 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. Amma tries to get Ethan to leave but he says that he cant, acknowledging that he had no other choice, but to go ahead with the sacrifice. 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. Ridley invites Ethan to the Gathering, a holiday dinner held by Lena's extended family every year. Soon after they reconcile, Link sneaks through Ethan's window and interrupts them. When Ethan wakes, he finds a new song by an unknown artist on his iPod. 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. Lena has stopped writing in her tattered old journal that she used to always carry around with her. 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. Loved this series. This series started with the movie (which I was not a fan of). Or when Ridley was slowly suffocating Ethan to death in Beautiful Creatures and she caused a hurricane to hit the room out of anger and frustration for Ridley to let Ethan go for the sake of not killing him and confessing to Ethan later on that she "just panicked". Before the team is about to enter the Sea Cave where Sarafine is hiding, Ethan understands the purpose of the Arclight and, with the help of Liv, is able to free Macon from it. But when Lena fails to decide, she kills Ethan right in front of her and there hoping to provoke her into turning Dark by losing control of her powers. On January 3, 2013, a new edition of the novel was published, featuring images from the movie on the . They make a trade with The Book of Moons hoping to resurrect Ethan; the trade being Ethan's life for someone else's. Then the gang (Ethan, Lena, Ridley, Link) head to the pool. Lena is surprised when her Dark Caster cousin Ridley comes to the house with Ethan's best friend, Link, and several other students from the high school. Without you, none of that matters to me., No, I'm too busy trying to deflect your power of stupidity. The books include the following titles: Beautiful Creatures (2009), Beautiful Darkness (2010), Beautiful Chaos (2011), and Beautiful Redemption (2012). 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. In the library, they touch Genevieve's locket again and discover the source of the curse on the Duchannes family of Casters. 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. ", Do you believe in love after last sight?, "I don't care! The book was published on December 1, 2009, by Little, Brown, and Company.In the UK, Beautiful Creatures is published by Penguin Books. Beautiful Creatures is the first book of The Caster Chronicles series, written by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. The ghosts are uncommunicative, and Macon and Amma are unaware of Ethan's presence at their meeting. Things continued to remain this way with Lena treating her harshly and making it more than clear she does not want her anywhere near Ethan and Liv barely acknowledging it. 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. Lauren Azzopardi Child. Lena, despite her usual non-physical personality, has shown to become physical if put under enough stress and anger and if so at a certain individual. However, I kept thinking there has to be a good story somewhere and I'm so glad the movie lead me to these books. When Ridley eventually left the group to secretly aid Ethan, Link and Liv to find Lena aware of the trap to force Lena to go Dark, John and Lena grew even closer as he comforted her in her weak state seeming to understand her (though Lena says that nothing "like that" occurred between them and that he was just a good friend towards her). 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. After awhile I would skip the details yearning for more conversational points. What is the Order of the Beautiful Creatures books? I can't imagine a world without you in it." Marian Ashcroft reveals herself to be a Keeper, a mortal who knows about the Light and Dark Casters and keeps a record of their doings. She says that sometimes unexplainable things happen around her. He then meets up with her and her eyes are red and puffy from crying and they talk. ", "Feelings for him? As a result of his closeness with Lena, he convinces her to take off with him and Ridley to a place where she could be herself; which was really a con to transfer her to Abraham and Sarafine. But Lena is cursed and on her sixteenth birthday, her fate will be decided. She brings a bokor, a "darkness of her own" and things start to get hectic as a result of it. Over Christmas break, Ethan discovers that his reclusive father, Mitchell Wate, has not been working on his novel for the past several months. He tells them that while the fighting was going on he was bitten by John, who is revealed to be a hybrid, half Caster, half Incubus. After reading the first book in this series, I devoured the remaining three over a week and a half (Audiobook versions). However, when Ridley was growing near her 16th Moon, Lena began to notice changes in her best friend and took a notice how Ridley was beginning to behave much more wildly and starting to become rebellious. Is Beautiful Creatures on Tubi? And did I mention my cute little British accent? Though despite Liv's respectful treatment towards Lena, it does nothing to stop the cold and harsh treatment she receives in return. Jealous and angry when she sees them together once again, Lena takes off, causing a chain reaction of chaos as she goes. She is the daughter of Sarafine Duchannes and John Eades, cousin of Reece, Ridley and Ryan Duchannes and Larkin Kent. Throughout the book, Ethan slowly begins losing himself even more. I really liked the first book in the series but the second and the third books in the series disappointed me and the last book was a complete disaster. This being seen in Beautiful Darkness when Ridley betrays Sarafine to help Ethan, Liv and Link save Lena fearing for Lena's safety. I didn't know you were a real person. You fall in love with the characters and want to keep reading until it's all finished. Sarafine flees, and Amma arrives with the Book of Moons to help advise Lena. Since Lena is intensely in love with Ethan, she is shown to have a vicious level jealousy side. Once outside, Macon has Green Caster eyes, which confirms that he has switched from an Incubus to a Caster. The books are set in a fictional town called Gatlin in South Carolina. After this, he refuses to say anything more. Ethan states he didn't have a choice. 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. They definitely kept me on my toes. But the two manage to make amends and even become friends by the end of the novel, forgetting about their rough history together. 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. 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. On the first day of his sophomore year of high school, Ethan again has a dream about falling through trees with a girl whose face he can't see. But John, able to tell that Lena was still in love with Ethan, attempted to convince her that Ethan was holding her back from her true power when sensing her great worry about Ethan's safety, both aware he was following her (though Lena thought this was the other way around for her and Ethan and that she was holding him back from a normal life.) ", "Get the hell away from my boyfriend witch! 9. it is a sweet but lively series with a lot of unpredictable turns and twists. Since the books came to a natural end regarding Lena and Ethan's future and I thought the movie's ending was kinda trash so this concept was born. Ethan, on her wall as a last meaningful message to remember him. Lena Duchannes is one of the two main protagonist of The Caster Chronicles series. 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 must also kill someone she loves in order to break . In Beautiful Creatures, he and Lena meet through their dreams with Ethan trying to save her; they officially meet when Ethan narrowly avoids hitting Lena in the middle of a heavy rainstorm on the side of the road when her car breaks down. I like how the Casters' powers worked although the whole "bringing someone back from the dead" part seemed like stretching the chord a bit too far. He even claimed to have had a mortal girlfriend but that "she just didn't understand" people like "them". Before moving to Gatlin, Lena begins to have recurring dreams of a teenage boy who saves her. Lena is interested in Ethan's vision, but she cryptically warns him that her life is complicated and that he should not try to interact with her again. It is something of a running gag in the series for Lena to accidentally set random objects on fire. She also has displayed the power to control the weather, create storms and fire at will, control lightning and thunder and also the ability to control the wind. Sarafine is Lena's mother. Lena runs home to Ravenwood Manor, and Ethan follows her. What book does Lena read in Beautiful Creatures? Sarafine tells Lena that she will be able to Claim her own self for the Dark or Light at midnight. ", I want you here. Despite these problems, the two both manage to get past this by the end of the novel and become stronger together; kissing passionately as a way to make up for all the trouble until Ethan must pull back to avoid further physical harm from the kiss. What happened to Macon's father, Silas? He is also Lena and Ridley's uncle. At least you finally admit it! He lives with his father and a housekeeper; his mother has passed away. 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. In Beautiful Creatures, Lena avoids . Beautiful Creatures was signed by Little,Brown,and Company for a four-book series,the Caster Chronicles,with the follow-up books titled: I find it really difficult to believe that a whole town would gang up against someone when there is seriously zero evidence against him or her. Loved the books. She says that all the people in her family are Casters (spell casters) who have special powers. 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. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. She then asks if he believes in Love after death and he says, "Yes." After kissing Ethan, Lena takes off into the forest and rides off with John Breed on his motorcycle and unknowingly after chasing her, Ethan witnesses this. They roll over the edge of the water tower and fall. Just in the first few chapters there was much trauma, and it just got much to dark. The first book in the instant NYT bestselling gothic fantasy series; a modern paranormal romance set against the gothic backdrop of an isolated southern town. Enjoyed these from start to finish and wish they didnt go away so quickly once i started i found myself unable to stop until one book was done into the next and another and another until i came to the end with much dismay. Lena Duchannes is one of the two main protagonist of The Caster Chronicles series. Lena is crying in a garden full of lemon trees, and she begins to talk with Ethan. Though soon later in the series, she fully accepts the fact that she loves him and needed him in her life. April 23, 2017. age 11+. For example, the relationship between Lena and Sarafine is ANYTHING but simple. Her then-husband John threatened to take Lena, who was a baby at the time, away from her if she continued to see him fearing for their daughter's safety around her. Lena's 16th birthday is coming up in a matter of months and she finds herself fearing and almost becoming fully convinced she will go Dark, terrifying her. Macon is upset that Amma has not stopped Ethan from meeting with Lena, as it could be dangerous for both teenagers. 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. Lena was then raised by her relatives. Even for some time, Lena did not approve of Ethan hanging out with Liv and made indirect remarks or gestures to Liv that Ethan was hers. Also in the novel when Lena is ready to Claim herself but reluctant to choose Light (since choosing Light would mean the deaths of all of the Dark casters in the family) and possibly kill Ridley, Ridley insists she choose Light and do the right thing. 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. At Gatlin High's winter formal, some of the girls ruin Lena's dress by pouring liquid soap on her and Ethan. Her father John, fearing for Lena's safety, made a plan to secretly leave Sarafine and to take her with him. I loved this series, totally didn't have it on here until someone reminded me by lending me a copy of the first book how much I loved reading them. Soon later, while Ethan goes to see the Seer, he shows Ethan images and implies Ethan is the "One Who Is Two." Therefore Lena is the greatest, strongest, mightiest and most powerful character in the whole book series. Despite the two's rough history, Lena and Liv eventually make amends and even end up becoming close friends; showing Lena being able to forgive and forget. Lena accepts a ride home from Ethan, which marks the start of their friendship. However, if she were to turn Light all Dark Casters would die as the other way around if she were to turn Dark. An example being when Ethan makes a remark how "lots of girls" have called him "lovable," Lena's eyes are described as "storming in anger." They eventually find out a sacrifice needed to be done; the "One Who Is Two." The average reader will spend 9 hours and 52 minutes reading this book at 250 WPM (words per minute). As she grew up, Lena was very disliked in school due to her quiet personality as well as her family's reputation and, in result, was relentlessly bullied by other students. They were suspenseful, romantic, and chaotic. Lena, though, was often stuck doing her homework since Ridley had been using her Siren abilities to make boys do it for her. How long does it take to read Beautiful Creatures? Afterwards, during the pie contest sponsored by Southern Crusty, Ridley, John and Lena cause maggots, beetles and grubs to crawl of every pie except Amma's. Lena's choice is a complicated one: If she chooses to go Dark, all the Light Casters in her family will die. But Ethan refuses to sever ties with her insisting that she's "the girl from his dreams" revealing to her that he's been having the same dreams she has as well, where he saves a girl who seems to be her, and keeps associating with her despite her warnings. Was an easy read and unexpected things happened around every corner. In the aftermath of Beautiful Darkness, Ethan and Lena are reunited and stronger than ever. Ethan and Link head back to Ravenwood Manor and meet Link's mother, Mrs. Lincoln, on the way. After I finished the series I found myself missing the characters! The final chapter is of Ethan on top of the water tower and as he goes to the edge to throw himself over it, he is dragged back by his other half. She soon realizes the other life turned out to be her Uncle Macon's. Ethan clutches the other half of him and knows that they both knew they were going to die. But, it isn't a "canned" series by any means. ", "We're not. However, Lena's Claiming soon has a monstrous effect on both the Mortal and Caster world more than anyone would imagine. Lena soon cries herself to sleep after her last few moments with Ethan. Ethan Wate longs to escape his small southern town. When Ethan arrives at school, he hears about a new girl in town, Lena Duchannes. The two then embark and begin to look into their family's history together and to find a way to help Lena from going Dark. Directed by Richard LaGravenese. In the end, there is a grave. She is a Natural, an extremely rare type of Caster who is far more powerful and stronger than all regular Casters are, also having additional powers that can be different for any Natural. Beautiful Creatures (Caster Chronicles 1) Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. The books include the following titles: Beautiful Creatures (2009), Beautiful Darkness (2010), Beautiful Chaos (2011), and Beautiful Redemption (2012). Lena and Ethan dance together and finally say that they love each other. Ethan finds it hard to believe John was "the same dirtbag who kicked his ass at the fair and tried to steal his girlfriend," and was now a "decent guy," but sees that falling in love will do that to a person. Just wow! I have three pretty big problems with the book, though. (Though Ethan is later revived by Lena and Amma.). ", "When were you going to tell me? ", "He's not dead. By far my favorite book series that I have ever read. ** spoiler alert ** This is generally ok as light reading--it grabs you and it's hard to put down. That night, Ethan wakes up and sees that his housekeeper, Amma, leaving the house. Macon "Melchizedek" Ravenwood is the son of Silas Ravenwood and Arelia Valentin and the brother of Hunting and Leah. There were so many plot holes. The next time they had seen each was Ridley's unannounced appearance in Beautiful Creatures. Yeah, I admit it. She is the coauthor of the Beautiful Creatures and Dangerous Creatures novels and her solo works include the YA fantasy novels UNBREAKABLE and UNMARKED (THE LEGION SERIES), YA contemporary romances THE LOVELY RECKLESS and BROKEN BEAUTIFUL HEARTS, and THE X-FILES . Then, the plot becomes the point of view of Ridley. ", "I didn't expect you to be here. The day of Lena's 16th birthday, Ethan goes to Ravenwood Manor to see her. 100,060 ratings4,833 reviews. The two have since gotten to be significantly closer and somewhat mended their broken relationship. You can't understand. In the novel it is also revealed she was actually the one who murdered Ethan's mother. It is told that girls always picked on her, made fun of her and bullied her without any mercy causing her to be driven out of many schools. "THAT crazed girl improvising her music. One-shot about what happened after the ending of the movie Beautiful Creatures. After following her home one day after school, she allows herself to get to know him and eventually tells him of her family's origins and powers, which he ultimately doesn't care about. 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. The Sisters tell him that the locket comes from the year when General Sherman burned every plantation in Gatlin, except for Ravenwood Manor. Though despite her love for him, Lena often attempts to push him away believing she is only going to put him in harms way. However she is convinced that they are nothing more than dreams and that the boy in her dreams isn't an actual person. Pacing was inconsistent and overall, I found myself getting bored reading the second and third books. The Sisters identify the two sets of initials, which are carved into the locket, as belonging to an ancestor of Lena's Genevieve Duchannes and an ancestor of Ethan's named Ethan Carter Wate. 5. He reads Vonnegut and Kerouac, Salinger and Krakauer, and he dreams of going to the real places within his favorite books. She was even to be given far greater power than her mother Sarafine Duchannes, who had already established herself as the "Darkest Caster of all". Good for teens. Lena was also shown to not even approve of Ethan being around or associating with her and even made indirect gestures of Ethan being hers. As Ethan drives, he nearly runs over Lena. Since then the two have grown to like each other and have developed a respect for each other. Order Book Genre Date Rating; 1: Beautiful Creatures: Fantasy / F: Dec-2009: 4: 2: Beautiful . Published in 2010, it continues the story of Lena Duchannes, a magically-gifted girl living in Gatlin, South Carolina, and Ethan Wate, a non-caster somehow connected telepathically to Lena and her family. But I don't think I'm strong enough. I don't want to see you get hurt, and that's what will happen if you get too close to me. I'm late to the party but I still read this series. Lena fights back with Liv, both verbally and physically, revealing all her feelings towards Liv accusing her of taking everything in her life that she loves including both Ethan and Macon. Her Uncle Macon and others arrive and a battle breaks out with Lena causing a great storm to hit town. After a long time trying to get Ethan back, he returns on top of the water tower where he previously died. During the town's annual County Fair, Lena shows up wearing Ridley's type of clothing (overall that makes her look easy). In voice-over narration, he describes his enjoyment of reading banned books, his despair of his small-town existence, and his dreams of leaving for college. Lena and Amma recite a spell to bring Ethan back to life, and it works. (My first book rating, be gentle..). Therefore having no future together to marry, have kids, be together like they desire, etc. He is slowly changing, the foods he is known to like now disgust him and he's forgetting names, numbers; even important memories altogether. I couldn't put them down. He then silently says goodbye to his dad and takes one final look at his room and belongings and reads a book (Of Mice and Men, one Ethan often found tragic) for the last time. 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. 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