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. ", And Link, how about I save you two dances? Ethan is saved, but not only completely unaware of his death and how he was killed and revived and how, but Lena is left emotionally damaged beyond repair because of Macon's death, drenching her in guilt which drives the events of the sequel Beautiful Darkness. However, he states he had no choice in the matter and gives her a map of all the places he dreamed of going to in the world as a way to remember him by. However, in order to search for the book, Lena and Ethan must wait for the Caster Library to open, according to its own magical schedule. Together, they uncover dark secrets about their respective families, their history, and their town. 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. Ethan is shocked and becomes instantly raged with jealousy to see Lena dancing with John, his hands on her hips and her hands on his shoulders. Helpful. In the midst of the fight, Lena watches in horror as her mother stabs Ethan in his stomach with a knife, killing him. Lena (before meeting Ethan) was a loner having always stuck to herself and being very mysterious, always by herself and very lonely. Beautiful Creatures. After Lena confirms it, Link realizes he is turning into an Incubus. Started off quickly and you get attached to the characters. They then share one final moment together with Ethan Kelting, "Goodbye." After gathering the Light Casters, Ethan runs to find Lena in the woods, but instead meets Sarafine, who stabs him in the stomach with a knife. Lena, though, was often stuck doing her homework since Ridley had been using her Siren abilities to make boys do it for her. When Link asks how they can bring the two back together the Seer simply says that he and Amma "have a deal." The Sisters tell him that the locket comes from the year when General Sherman burned every plantation in Gatlin, except for Ravenwood Manor. This causes Lena to fight with Liv both verbally and physically, accusing Liv of trying to "steal her boyfriend", and launching at her several times just barely being restrained by Ethan. She is the daughter of Sarafine Duchannes and John Eades, cousin of Reece, Ridley and Ryan Duchannes and Larkin Kent. On purpose. Lena's easily sparked jealousy even has Ethan on his toes. Throughout Ethan and Lena's conversation, Liv shows up. 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. He and Lena have an awkward relationship in the third novel when Lena feels betrayed that him pretending to have been her friend was just a con to help Sarafine and Abraham. Kami Garcia is a #1 New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author. However, if she were to turn Light all Dark Casters would die as the other way around if she were to turn Dark. I am looking forward to the movie. Why did Edward Snakehands write a page in the chronicles for Ethan, just because Angelus said so? After awhile I would skip the details yearning for more conversational points. 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." What happened to Macon's father, Silas? Lena uses her power over nature to block out the moon at midnight, which keeps her from being claimed at all, either for Dark or Light. This being seen in Beautiful Darkness when Ridley betrays Sarafine to help Ethan, Liv and Link save Lena fearing for Lena's safety. 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. One-shot about what happened after the ending of the movie Beautiful Creatures. 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. This book is violent towards the ending, but the whole first part is very moving. And did I mention my cute little British accent? ", "Get the hell away from my boyfriend witch! ", "Give it time. Maybe I just like that book. But the last book in the series was the worst ever. These books are amazing. I got these four books on my Kindle on the 16th and couldn't put them down until they were finished. However, I kept thinking there has to be a good story somewhere and I'm so glad the movie lead me to these books. Lena is afraid that she will become evil as Ridley is and be claimed as Dark on her upcoming birthday. Lena's Necklace of Junk: A symbol of Lena's quirkiness is a jangling necklace with charms that look like junk to most people - particularly the mean girls who rule Gatlin's high school. I can't imagine a world without you in it." 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. 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. Before moving to Gatlin, Lena begins to have recurring dreams of a teenage boy who saves her. I just happen to have a few pictures because Margie and I made Lena's necklace two actually right after we finished writing the book. He goes to see Link and they spend one last day playing basketball. At Gatlin High's winter formal, some of the girls ruin Lena's dress by pouring liquid soap on her and Ethan. As he falls he thinks of only one thingLena. However, her 16th birthday arrives and her evil mother, Sarafine, comes and causes mayhem in some woods trying to convince her daughter to turn Dark. She meets and befriends Ethan Wate, a teenage resident in her new town Gatlin, with whom she falls in love with. Ethan Lawson Wate is our sixteen-year-old narrator. Ethan Wate. It was a good read, but I thought it fell a little flat. I fell in love with this series as soon as I read the very first book. She has shown to have strong and flat out vicious jealousy when he's with any other girl who she suspects might be attracted towards him romantically. And in the midst of things, strange things are happening to Ethan. The Story. 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. He also explains how Lila Jane's ghost helped him once The Book of Moons took his life by capturing him inside the Arclight; thereby giving him the chance to be freed and live again. The character build is fabulous. And not just reading schlockwe first see Ethan with a copy of Slaughterhouse-Five and Lena with a book by . Every page you turn leaves you wondering what more will happen, and believe me, much more does happen. 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. Since then the two have grown to like each other and have developed a respect for each other. How long does it take to read Beautiful Creatures? In the end, there is a grave. What book does Ethan read in Beautiful Creatures? I have three pretty big problems with the book, though. Do Lena and Ethan marry? 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 had not seen Ridley since until the events of Beautiful Creatures transformed as a new person and personality after a year's absence. 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. 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. On her left wrist, she has scars on the inside of her wrist from very realistic dreams. Also it is noted it no longer harms Ethan when he touches/kisses her, resulting in a future for the two of them. 3.92. Ethan clutches the other half of him and knows that they both knew they were going to die. The two have since gotten to be significantly closer and somewhat mended their broken relationship. Worship begins at 9:00! 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. Ethan Wate longs to escape his small southern town. 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. Arriving for his first day of junior year, Ethan notices newcomer Lena Duchannes . He has been sitting in his study, grieving for his dead wife. Ethan can overhear their conversation, as Amma tells Lena that Sarafine is actually her mother. You know I love him. First they suspect Lena, but the Demon Queen tells Ethan directly during a visit that Lena isn't the one who needed to die; even adding on how after the One Who Is Two died; she would be the one to Bind the New Order. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, 11.27: Just Your Average American Holiday. Ethan hears Lena playing the song "Sixteen Moons" on her viola in orchestra, which unsettles him. Ethan and Lena played in the water. Ridley reveals that this was a plot to lure Ethan away from Lena, since his love is her main protection from Sarafine. He seemed to understand her during her rough time and was often seen with her throughout the beginning of the novel even riding with him on his motorcycle. He tells her to wait for him at Greenbrier and writes "I will always love you. On the Sixteenth Moon, the Sixteenth Year, the Book will take what it's been promised. Then they study it to see if they can find a way to keep Lena from becoming Dark. 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. Lena and Amma recite a spell to bring Ethan back to life, and it works. 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. ", "I didn't expect you to be here. 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. He is slowly changing, the foods he is known to like now disgust him and he's forgetting names, numbers; even important memories altogether. Just like Uncle Macon wasn't dead. They make a trade with The Book of Moons hoping to resurrect Ethan; the trade being Ethan's life for someone else's. She is the daughter of Sarafine Duchannes and John Eades, cousin of Reece, Ridley and Ryan Duchannes and Larkin Kent. This is considered a huge leap since Ethan is shown to hate talking about his father. Lena and Ridley and John enter the Tunnel of Love and disappear, not leaving a clue as to where they went. After this, he refuses to say anything more. It is something of a running gag in the series for Lena to accidentally set random objects on fire. She soon realizes the other life turned out to be her Uncle Macon's. Jealous and angry when she sees them together once again, Lena takes off, causing a chain reaction of chaos as she goes. Why didn't Link ever complain about the pain touching Ridley caused him before he turned? There is a girl. 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 . 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. 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. When he gets there he drops Lena's necklace in the front seat of the Volvo so nothing will happen to it. 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. Ethan Wate thought he was getting used to the strange, impossible events happening in Gatlin, his small Southern town. At least you finally admit it! John first meets Lena in the second novel of the series. The Caster Chronicles Wiki is a FANDOM Books Community. In English class the next day, Ethan begins to hear Lena communicating with him telepathically. Lena accepts a ride home from Ethan, which marks the start of their friendship. I don't want to see you get hurt, and that's what will happen if you get too close to me. He then goes to see Liv and Marion and bids his goodbyes with his loved ones. 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). As a Natural/Cataclyst, Lena has the power to perform casts and rituals with complete ease. 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). 100,060 ratings4,833 reviews. In church, Ethan touches the locket and has another vision of Genevieve Duchannes talking with her fianc, Ethan Carter Wate. After finding a locket together that seems to tie their families together they proceed to look into it, growing closer to each other. In Mitchell's study, Ethan and Lena notice that several books are open to certain pages, and the pages refuse to be turned. Despite all this, Ethan and Lena are . During the town's annual County Fair, Lena shows up wearing Ridley's type of clothing (overall that makes her look easy). 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. She always at first kept her innermost thoughts to herself never expressing herself until after Beautiful Creatures when she begins evolving as a person. Also when Ethan calls Liv "L" (Lena's nickname) Ridley threatens to make Ethan her "slave" if he "so much as thought about hurting her cousin". After declaring his love for her, Ethan proves his love for her by holding her when she needs comfort and freely expressing and showing his feelings for her in front of his basketball teammates and students completely unashamed of her. 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. He comforts her during Macon's death and grows close to her inciting jealousy in Ethan. He is also Lena and Ridley's uncle. Not going to spoil it for you. 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.". Ethan discovers that the woman is not Mrs. Lincoln, but the Dark Caster Sarafine in disguise. 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. 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. After reading the first book in this series, I devoured the remaining three over a week and a half (Audiobook versions). She says that all the people in her family are Casters (spell casters) who have special powers. He even claimed to have had a mortal girlfriend but that "she just didn't understand" people like "them". 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 . After Lena (reluctantly) admits that she does not want to see Ethan there, Link, Liv and Ethan himself leave. Lena reminisces about the first time she saw him and how she knew she would fall in love with him noticing how even "the sky looked different" after she started to fall for him. In Beautiful Redemption, Lena is determined to bring Ethan back and is desperate to do so. Nonetheless, it was a really fun read and would definitely recommend it to anyone looking for some nice sweet romance laced with magic and mystery. 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. The third book in the New York Times bestselling series, perfect for fans of Cassandra Clare and Maggie Stiefvater! Still in the house, Lena, powerful even as a baby, had saved herself by making it rain thus putting out the fire. But Ethan is barely able to hold the two back from clawing at each other. 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. Though despite Liv's respectful treatment towards Lena, it does nothing to stop the cold and harsh treatment she receives in return. 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. 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". Lena runs home to Ravenwood Manor, and Ethan follows her. Ridley invites Ethan to the Gathering, a holiday dinner held by Lena's extended family every year. 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. Therefore Lena is the greatest, strongest, mightiest and most powerful character in the whole book series. 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. Without you, none of that matters to me., No, I'm too busy trying to deflect your power of stupidity. Which is the best romantic novel by an Indian author? ", "Feelings for him? He is looking in mirrors and sees a whole other person. 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. 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. 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