Books

About the Caster Chronicles

The Caster Chronicles is a four-book series written by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. It was published by Little, Brown on December 2009. Amazon.com named it one of the top ten books of 2009 and the top pick for best teen book. The sequel to the pilot book Beautiful Creatures, entitled Beautiful Darkness, was released on October 12th, 2010. The third book was released, Beautiful Chaos, in Fall of 2011.

The fourth, and final, installment of the series, Beautiful Redemption, was released on October 23, 2012.

Story: Ethan Wate used to think of Gatlin, the small Southern town he had always called home, as a place where nothing ever changed. Then he met mysterious newcomer Lena Duchannes, who revealed a secret world where a curse has marked Lena's family of powerful Supernaturals for generations. Mysterious, suspenseful, and romantic, the Caster Chronicles introduce a secret world hidden in plain sight. A world where impossible, magical, life-altering events happen. Sometimes life-ending.

The Movie

Main article: Beautiful Creatures (Movie)

It was confirmed that Beautiful Creatures was set up to become a feature film by Warner Bros. Pictures in 2009.

After a few years of little progress, it was soon revealed Richard LaGravenese would be the director of the movie and Erwin Soff would be producing the film. At various points throughout 2012, the following cast members were announced:

• Alden Ehrenreich (Tetro) as Ethan Wate
• Alice Englert (Ginger & Rosa) as Lena Duchannes
• Emma Thompson (Sense and Sensibility, Love Actually) as both Sarafine Duchannes and Mrs. Lincoln
• Emmy Rossum (Shameless, Poseidon, The Day after Tomorrow) as Ridley Duchannes
• Thomas Mann (Project X) as Ethan's best friend and Ridley's on/off boyfriend Link
• Jeremy Irons as Lena's uncle, Macon Ravenwood
• Viola Davis (The Help) as "Amma"
• Kyle Gallner as Lena's cousin Larkin Kent

Filming began on April 2012 in New Orleans with a theatrical release date for the movie on February 14, 2013.

Affiliates

Sci-fi / Mystery

39 Clues • Bourne • Delirium Trilogy • Destroyermen • Divergent • Dune • Emberverse • Forest of Hands and Teeth • Ender's Game • Gabriel Allon • Grave Sight • Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy • Horns • The Host • The Hunger Games • I Am Number Four • In Death • Incarceron • The Lunar Chronicles • The Lying Game • The Maze Runner • Neuromancer • Sherlock Holmes • Unwind

Fantasy

666 Park Avenue • Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter • Artemis Fowl • Ashtown Burials • Blue Bloods • The Caster Chronicles • Celestra • The Chronicles of Narnia • Cirque Du Freak • Codex Alera • Dark Hunters • The Dark Tower • Daughter of Smoke and Bone • Den of Shadows • Diana Wynne Jones • Discworld • Eon: Dragoneye Reborn • Firelight • Graceling • Harry Potter • His Dark Materials • The Hollows • I Am Legend • Ice and Fire • Inkheart • The Immortal Rules • The Immortals Series • Inheritance • The Iron Druid Chronicles • Iron Fey • Lord of the Rings • Otherworld • Percy Jackson • Pern • The Portal Trilogy • Redwall • The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel • Seraphina • Shadow Falls • The Shadowhunter Chronicles • Southern Vampire Mysteries • The Secret Circle • The Society On Da Run/Tarnished: Broken Dragons • Seven Realms • Ted Dekker • Twilight • Unholy • Vampire Academy • The Vampire Diaries • Violet Eden Chapters • Wheel of Time • Xanth

Young Adult

Anne of Green Gables • Beautiful Disaster • Emily of New Moon • Gone • Legend • Matched • The Mediator • Meg Cabot • Monster Blood Tattoo • Pretty Little Liars • Ship Breaker • The Selection • Uglies • A Walk to Remember

Children's Books

Amelia's Notebooks • Children's Books • Children of the Lamp • Daphne's Diary • Dear America • Dr. Seuss • Guardians of Ga'Hoole • The Kane Chronicles • Lemony Snicket • Septimus Heap • The Underland Chronicles • Warhorse • Warriors Cats

Miscellaneous

Fever/Highlander • Fifty Shades of Grey • James Bond • Eric Flint • Literature • Millenium Trilogy • Outlander • Phillip K. Dick • Sex and the City • S. M. Stirling • Sharpe • Soulfire • Stephen King • Tamora Pierce • Harry Turtledove

Sci-fi / Mystery

39 Clues • Bourne • Delirium Trilogy • Destroyermen • Divergent • Dune • Emberverse • Forest of Hands and Teeth • Ender's Game • Gabriel Allon • Grave Sight • Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy • Horns • The Host • The Hunger Games • I Am Number Four • In Death • Incarceron • The Lunar Chronicles • The Lying Game • The Maze Runner • Neuromancer • Sherlock Holmes • Unwind

Fantasy

666 Park Avenue • Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter • Artemis Fowl • Ashtown Burials • Blue Bloods • The Caster Chronicles • Celestra • The Chronicles of Narnia • Cirque Du Freak • Codex Alera • Dark Hunters • The Dark Tower • Daughter of Smoke and Bone • Den of Shadows • Diana Wynne Jones • Discworld • Eon: Dragoneye Reborn • Firelight • Graceling • Harry Potter • His Dark Materials • The Hollows • I Am Legend • Ice and Fire • Inkheart • The Immortal Rules • The Immortals Series • Inheritance • The Iron Druid Chronicles • Iron Fey • Lord of the Rings • Otherworld • Percy Jackson • Pern • The Portal Trilogy • Redwall • The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel • Seraphina • Shadow Falls • The Shadowhunter Chronicles • Southern Vampire Mysteries • The Secret Circle • The Society On Da Run/Tarnished: Broken Dragons • Seven Realms • Ted Dekker • Twilight • Unholy • Vampire Academy • The Vampire Diaries • Violet Eden Chapters • Wheel of Time • Xanth

Young Adult

Anne of Green Gables • Beautiful Disaster • Emily of New Moon • Gone • Legend • Matched • The Mediator • Meg Cabot • Monster Blood Tattoo • Pretty Little Liars • Ship Breaker • The Selection • Uglies • A Walk to Remember

Children's Books

Amelia's Notebooks • Children's Books • Children of the Lamp • Daphne's Diary • Dear America • Dr. Seuss • Guardians of Ga'Hoole • The Kane Chronicles • Lemony Snicket • Septimus Heap • The Underland Chronicles • Warhorse • Warriors Cats

Miscellaneous

Fever/Highlander • Fifty Shades of Grey • James Bond • Eric Flint • Literature • Millenium Trilogy • Outlander • Phillip K. Dick • Sex and the City • S. M. Stirling • Sharpe • Soulfire • Stephen King • Tamora Pierce • Harry Turtledove