Ethan has been reading Macon’s journal, and having visions of the Great Burning in Gatlin’s past. Ethan recruits his best friend, Wesley “Link” Lincoln, to help him follow Lena and the others to a nearby caster bar in order to find out the truth, but he discovers that Lena is acting on her own. Ridley is a succubus, and Ethan becomes worried that she is using her powers to control Lena and influence her. She spends time with a new girl in town, Liv, and the new boy, John Breed, as well as her dark caster cousin Ridley. Ethan has been hearing music, the song â€›Seventeen Moons,’ and attempts to discuss this with Lena (who used the Book of Moons to bring him back from death), but she refuses to discuss it, and is obviously still concerned that although she avoided her Claiming on her 16th birthday she will still someday have to choose between light and dark, good and evil.

After the funeral, Lena falls into a terrible depression, refusing to leave the house.

A caster boy gives Lena a silver sparrow, which she holds onto. Macon was an incubus who chose to live off of dreams instead of blood several other incubuses attend the funeral, but must flee when the sun rises. Ethan wonders why Macon, who was not treated well by the people of Gatlin, has chosen to be buried in the town cemetery. Lena and Ethan communicate mentally Lena wishes to skip the funeral. In Beautiful Creatures, Lena avoids choosing the light or the dark path as a caster on her 16th birthday and uses her powerful magic to bring Ethan back from the dead, but at the cost of losing her beloved uncle Macon. 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. A Gatlin where impossible, magical, life-altering events happen.Beautiful Darkness is the sequel to Beautiful Creatures and the second book in the Caster Series. A Gatlin where a curse has marked Lena's family of powerful Supernaturals for generations. A Gatlin that harbored ancient secrets beneath its moss-covered oaks and cracked sidewalks. Then he met mysterious newcomer Lena Duchannes, who revealed a secret world that had been hidden in plain sight all along. The second novel in the 'Caster Chronicles.'Įthan Wate used to think of Gatlin, the small Southern town he had always called home, as a place where nothing ever changed. Dust jacket is unclipped ($17.99) and fine. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, good corners, and clean unmarred boards. Signed by both authors on the title page in black felt-tipped pen. First printing with full 10 number line ending with 1. New York: Little Brown and Company, 2010.

Beautiful darkness by kami garcia