But the two manage to make amends and even become friends by the end of the novel, forgetting about their rough history together. 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. Just like Uncle Macon wasn't dead. It's also told that Ridley had been raised with her since she was little and attended school alongside her. Must read! Lena even got into a physical fight with Liv, while under a cast though, about Ethan when Liv accused Lena of not caring about him. 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. Good for teens. Ethan hears Lena playing the song "Sixteen Moons" on her viola in orchestra, which unsettles him. Lena Duchannes is one of the two main protagonist of The Caster Chronicles series. 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. After seeing him, Lena embraces him and sobs into his shirt. I can't imagine a world without you in it! Macon was an Incubus, a creature who fed on people's dreams and memories to sustain himself and after he was released from the Arclight, he became a Light Caster. So much young-adult fiction these days is narrated by a female protagonist, and you might expect the same from Beautiful Creatures, which is written by two talented ladies.But having a male narrator is one of the many interesting and different things Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl have done in their book. Ethan discovers that the woman is not Mrs. Lincoln, but the Dark Caster Sarafine in disguise. But, the movie was easier to write about, so here you go. They eventually find out a sacrifice needed to be done; the "One Who Is Two." 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. He will stop at nothing in order to be with Lena and his loved ones again. Macon forbids Lena to attend the party because of the potential dangers, but Lena sneaks out to enjoy the festivities anyway. 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. But Ethan is barely able to hold the two back from clawing at each other. I am looking forward to the movie. 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. 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. "The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.". Lena's best sign, something Ethan has taken note of, of when she is about to use her powers is when her hair starts to curl starting at the very ends; a trade note usually before something like a light bulb shatters or the winds pick up- this all a warning sign of Lena about to use her powers in the midst of what is usually anger. Lena is in pain, and her family is reciting a Latin chant to stop a spiritual attack on Lena by a Dark Caster named Sarafine. I didn't know you were a real person. After she makes a trade with the Book of Moons hoping to revive a dead Ethan in the novel, she is horrified to discover the price she paid for his life was Macon's. Since then the two have grown to like each other and have developed a respect for each other. Kamis first graphic novel Teen Titans: Raven, with artist Gabriel Picolo, is the first book in her TEEN TITANS series for DC Comics and the adult series JOKER/HARLEY: CRIMINAL SANITY, from DC Black Label. Am I Dark, or am I Light? Lena and Ridley and John enter the Tunnel of Love and disappear, not leaving a clue as to where they went. Lena is ignored by most of the students because she wears long dresses and is not interested in popular pursuits like trying out for the cheerleading squad. There are also a lot of Vexes, powerful demons of the underground, who are sent back once Amma, Arelia (Macon's Mother), Gramma (Lena's Grandmother) and Twyla (Macon's Aunt) arrive. Ethan asks of everyone was okay and John informs Ethan that he came because it was "harder than you think when you're up there," and that since Ethan was with him when he jumped, he should return the favor. The film adaptation of the novel was released in February, 2013, under the same title. Soon though, their friendship flares into a passionate romance with Lena falling in love with Ethan on a deep gut wr-nching level. They definitely kept me on my toes. Lena can be seen next to Ridley during their graduation. Ridley has put a verbal spell on the students who used to be mean to Lena so that they will treat her nicely on her birthday. Lena barely even hid her feelings of hatred about her towards Liv herself. You don't even know me; you'll probably hate me too. PG-13. The bokor tries to attack Macon but Macon easily overpowers him and the bokor warns Macon he shouldn't have intervened and leaves. Lena, in result, treated her cold and harshly especially when seeing her and Ethan together. I am not really going to talk much about the plot, mostly because throughout 4 books of at least 500 pages each, THERE IS SO MUCH OF IT. Firstly, it bums me out to read books where a vast majority of the characters are bad people, especially when they take it much further than I've experienced in reality. ", I want you here. Ridley is with a guy who is John Breed. You know I love him. In the aftermath of Beautiful Darkness, Ethan and Lena are reunited and stronger than ever. Lena loves her uncle very much and is closest to her in her entire family. Her extended family of Light Casters is with her. Therefore having no future together to marry, have kids, be together like they desire, etc. Lena would try to make an effort to make friends and even tried out for a spot on the newspaper club of one of her schools, but was lied to that all the spots were already filled up (even though there were so few students on the team that they could never print on time). Ethan, on her wall as a last meaningful message to remember him. Soon later, while Ethan goes to see the Seer, he shows Ethan images and implies Ethan is the "One Who Is Two." I have three pretty big problems with the book, though. But . With Alden Ehrenreich, Alice Englert, Jeremy Irons, Viola Davis. She also painfully strips Ridley of her Siren powers after revealing that she is aware of her betrayal in order to save Lena. 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). She and Ridley had severed ties after that and they had not seen each other for a year afterwards. ", "When were you going to tell me? She instantly goes cold and furious when she sees him with any girl whom she suspects might be attracted to him on a romantic level; particularly Liv, whom she treated coldly and very harshly, aware of Liv's feelings for Ethan. Ethan and Lena's relationship is one of the central plotlines in the Beautiful Creatures series. The water ruins the dresses of all the girls who were mean to Lena, causing chaos. Before moving to Gatlin, Lena begins to have recurring dreams of a teenage boy who saves her. Kami Garcia is a #1 New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author. He eventually gives her to Sarafine and Abraham, though their plan fails when Macon, Ethan, Link and Liv and Ridley and others show up to save her. 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. In the library, they touch Genevieve's locket again and discover the source of the curse on the Duchannes family of Casters. Fun reads. 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. I really enjoyed this series although for me the first book had all the impetuous and the subsequent books were just for the fun of hanging out with the characters in a very well-realized setting. However she is convinced that they are nothing more than dreams and that the boy in her dreams isn't an actual person. The third book in the New York Times bestselling series, perfect for fans of Cassandra Clare and Maggie Stiefvater! 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. And not just reading schlockwe first see Ethan with a copy of Slaughterhouse-Five and Lena with a book by . Even though he knew it wasn't. 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 . Still in the house, Lena, powerful even as a baby, had saved herself by making it rain thus putting out the fire. In Beautiful Redemption, Lena is determined to bring Ethan back and is desperate to do so. 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. You won't find this theme anywhere else: Southern gothic romance. In Gatlin, South Carolina, Ethan Wate awakens from a recurring dream of a girl he does not know. I really enjoyed this 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). He even claimed to have had a mortal girlfriend but that "she just didn't understand" people like "them". 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. 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. You're a Mortal. Ridley has nearly persuaded Mitchell to take his own life, but Link convinces her to release Mitchell from her spell. The mothers of the mean girls believe Lena is responsible for the incident, and they sign a petition to have Lena expelled from school. After she was Claimed, she became half-Cataclyst. . In Beautiful Creatures, Lena avoids . What book does Lena read in Beautiful Creatures? Lena is afraid that she will become evil as Ridley is and be claimed as Dark on her upcoming birthday. After lying together, she begs tearfully for forgiveness for her actions and Ethan does without hesitance (proving how much he truly loves her) and they make up kissing passionately together before falling asleep together. Her Uncle Macon and others arrive and a battle breaks out with Lena causing a great storm to hit town. 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. 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. Though despite her love for him, Lena often attempts to push him away believing she is only going to put him in harms way. What book is Lena reading in Beautiful Creatures? After a long time trying to get Ethan back, he returns on top of the water tower where he previously died. The characters are so personal and easy to get attached to. 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. Since Lena is intensely in love with Ethan, she is shown to have a vicious level jealousy side. That night, Ethan has another dream of Lena slipping away from him, and he dreams he was drowning and wakes up soaking wet. ", Look at me, Ethan. Ridley reveals that this was a plot to lure Ethan away from Lena, since his love is her main protection from Sarafine. Beautiful Creatures is the first book of The Caster Chronicles series, written by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. I fell in love with this series after reading the first book. The Caster Chronicles Wiki is a FANDOM Books Community. Sarafine was believed to be dead since then until she shows up to prove otherwise in Beautiful Creatures. When he is released from the Arclight by Ethan and Liv, she is joyful and is finally able to return to her normal self. 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. She is also the greatest, strongest and most powerful character in the series. 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.") Fall under the spell of the Beautiful Darkness, the sequel to the instant NYT bestselling gothic fantasy, Beautiful Creatures! A mysterious young girl is waiting for him on a Civil War battlefield. And no one can stop it. This dream has been recurring for months, and it troubles Ethan because in the dream he loves the girl he is falling with, though he does not know who she is. 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. The other half of him tries to stop Ethan from throwing himself over and they fight and battle. 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.) He tells her to wait for him at Greenbrier and writes "I will always love you. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever. Meanwhile, as Lena and Ethan and everyone struggle to figure out what needs to be done to save Gatlin, they realize that a happy ending won't be happening this time. Sixteen-year-old Ethan Wate lives in Gatlin, S.C., but dislikes his small town and would like to move away. You wont find this theme anywhere else: Southern gothic romance. She meets and befriends Ethan Wate, a teenage resident in her new town Gatlin, with whom she falls in love with. The whole time I was reading I knew how it would end (basically) and perhaps because of that, the challenges along the way seemed to be too easily overcome. Lena had not seen Ridley since until the events of Beautiful Creatures transformed as a new person and personality after a year's absence. Started off quickly and you get attached to the characters. I'm late to the party but I still read this series. What order should I read the Beautiful Creatures series? 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. On the last day of school, Lena tells Ethan that she and her family are leaving town. They then share one final moment together with Ethan Kelting, "Goodbye." 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. John first meets Lena in the second novel of the series. The series left me with a lot of questions. The book was published on December 1, 2009, by Little, Brown, and Company.In the UK, Beautiful Creatures is published by Penguin Books. After finding a locket together that seems to tie their families together they proceed to look into it, growing closer to each other. Beautiful Darkness is the sequel to Beautiful Creatures and the second book in the Caster Series. 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. Lena is devastated knowing her choice caused her true love's must-needed death and begs hysterically for Ethan not to go ahead with the sacrifice, even saying she didn't care about the deaths of their loved ones if he did not go through with the sacrifice; insisting she needed him to live and he couldn't ask her to live in a world without him. 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. This, as well as the new arrivals of Olivia Durand and John Breed who both Ethan and Lena grew close to in different ways and causing new found feelings of jealousy on both parts, caused them to face heavy obstacles in their relationship. 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. Despite this revelation, Lena warns Ethan against getting to know her, telling him its for his own good and safety. But whatever. 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 realizes one thing; he has to die to save Gatlin and the Caster world. Although the reason as to why this happened is ultimately left unknown, Macon simply tells the couple to be happy they can now freely touch each other without any repercussions. Lena, in a weak emotional state, agreed and even forced herself to break up with Ethan convincing herself that he was better off without her in his life. 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. But, it isn't a "canned" series by any means. At Gatlin High's winter formal, some of the girls ruin Lena's dress by pouring liquid soap on her and Ethan. In the vision, a girl named Genevieve is watching her mother's plantation, Greenbrier, burn down. 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. Sarafine tells Lena that she will be able to Claim her own self for the Dark or Light at midnight. Is There A Beautiful Creatures 2? 9. 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 didn't expect you to be here. The entire thing. At the end of the 3rd book, I had to go to work the next day with swollen eyes. 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. 3.92. 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