The Caster Chronicles series

The Caster Chronicles series is originally a four-novel series written by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. After the main series was completed, a spin-off series set in the same universe was announced and is currently ongoing. A few complementary novellas have also been published.

Books of the original series.

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.

Books

Main series - Beautiful Creatures novels

Novella (optional reading)

Cover	In-universe chronological order	Title
	1.0	Beautiful Creatures
	Ethan Wate is haunted by dreams of a girl he’s never met. When Lena Duchannes moves into his small southern town of Gatlin County, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her. And he is determined to uncover the strange connection between them, even if it means uncovering the one secret that could change everything.
	2.0	Beautiful Darkness
	Together Ethan and Lena can face anything Gatlin throws at them, but after suffering a tragic loss, Lena starts to pull away, keeping secrets that test their relationship. And now that Ethan’s eyes have been opened to the darker side of Gatlin, there’s no going back. Haunted by strange visions only he can see, Ethan is pulled deeper into his towns history and finds himself caught up in the dangerous network of underground passageways crisscrossing the South, where nothing is as it seems.
	2.5	Dream Dark
	When Link joined his best friend, Ethan Wate, on a quest through a mysterious network of underground passageways endlessly crisscrossing the South, he knew the journey would be dangerous. But returning home to Gatlin, South Carolina was just the beginning…
	3.0	Beautiful Chaos
	Ethan Wate thought he was getting used to the strange, impossible events happening in Gatlin, his small Southern town. But now that Ethan and Lena have returned home, strange and impossible have taken on new meanings. Swarms of locusts, record-breaking heat, and devastating storms ravage Gatlin as Ethan and Lena struggle to understand the impact of Lena’s Claiming. Even Lena’s family of powerful Supernaturals is affected – and their abilities begin to dangerously misfire. As time passes, one question becomes clear: What – or who – will need to be sacrificed to save Gatlin?
	4.0	Beautiful Redemption
	Is death the end . . . or only the beginning? Ethan Wate has spent most of his life longing to escape the small Southern town of Gatlin. He never thought he would meet the girl of his dreams, Lena Duchannes, who unveiled a secretive, powerful, and cursed side of Gatlin. So when Ethan awakes after the chilling events of the Eighteenth Moon, he has only one goal: to find a way to return to Lena and the ones he loves. Back in Gatlin, Lena is making her own bargains for Ethan’s return, vowing to do whatever it takes. Worlds apart, Ethan and Lena must once again work together to rewrite their fate.

Spin-off series - Dangerous Creatures novels

Transitional novella (optional reading)

Cover	In-universe order	In-series order	Title
	4.5	0.5	Dangerous Dream
	Catch up with Ethan, Lena, and Link as they finally graduate from high school and get ready to leave the small Southern town of Gatlin. But when Dark Caster Ridley makes an appearance, the sometime bad girl can’t resist picking a fight with her sometime boyfriend, Link. Angry and rebellious as ever, Ridley ends up alone in New York City and becomes entangled in the dangerous underground Caster club scene, where the stakes are high and losers pay the ultimate price. Where’s a Linkubus when you need him?
	5.0	1.0	Dangerous Creatures
	Ridley Duchannes will be the first to tell you that she’s a bad girl. She’s Dark. She’s a Siren. You can never trust her, or even yourself when she’s around. Lucky for her, Wesley “Link” Lincoln can never seem to remember that; quarter Incubus or not, his heart is Mortal when it comes to Ridley. When Link heads to New York City to start a music career, Ridley goes along for the ride-and she has her own reasons. As if leaving small-town Gatlin for the big city, trying to form a band, and surviving life with a partially reformed Siren isn’t hard enough already, Link soon learns he has a price on his head that no Caster or Mortal can ever pay.
	6.0	2.0	Dangerous Deception
	Ridley is missing, and Link was with her–right up until she vanished. Determined to find her, Link reunites with his New York bandmates and the mysterious Lennox Gates, who wants Rid for himself. Together they travel to the deep south, find the crossroads where blues guitarist Robert Johnson made his deal with the devil, discover a menagerie of Casters locked in cages, and uncover an evil in New Orleans that threatens to destroy them all. This time, love might not be enough.

Backstories - The Untold Stories novellas

Main article: Beautiful Creatures: The Untold Stories

Characters

Main article: List of characters

Adaptations

Film

Main article: Beautiful Creatures (film)

It was confirmed that Beautiful Creatures was set up to become a feature film by the Warner Bros company. However the years that followed, little, if any, action was being to make the novel into a movie. However, soon it was revealed that Richard LaGravenese would be the director of the movie along with Erwin Stoff producing the film. Shortly later after these given details, more and more news quickly were announced as that Viola Davis (The Help) would play Amma, Jack O'Connell (Skins) would be portraying Ethan, Alice Englert set to portray Lena and Emma Thompson in the dual roles of both Sarafine and Mrs. Lincoln. It was also announced on March 2, 2012 that Emmy Rossum (Shameless, Poseidon, The Day after Tomorrow) would be playing Ridley. Four days later on March 6, 2012 it was confirmed that Thomas Mann (Project X) would play Ethan's best friend and on/off boyfriend of Ridley, Link. Later on March 13, 2012 it was announced Jeremy Irons would be playing Lena's uncle, Macon. Later on it was told that Kyle Gallner would play Lena's cousin Larkin.

However later on, due to scheduling conflicts, Jack O'Connell had to let go of his given role and on April 11, 2012 it was announced Alden Ehrenreich was offcially set to portray Ethan. Production was set to begin in April 2012 with filming, being said by Kami Garcia herself, to be in and around New Orleans and with a theatrical release date for the movie on February 13, 2013.

Manga

Main article: Beautiful Creatures: The Manga