Beautiful Darkness
Caster Chronicles (Beautiful Creatures) Series
Author: Kami Garcia
Author: Margaret Stohl
Book 2 in the Caster Chronicles (Beautiful Creatures) series
Pages: 528
Published: 2010
Age: 13+
Ethan Wate used to think of Gatlin, the small Southern town he has always called home, as a place where nothing ever changed. Then he met mysterious newcomer Lena Duchannes, who revealed a secret world that had been hidden in plain sight all along. A Gatlin that harbored ancient secrets beneath its moss-covered oaks and cracked sidewalks. A Gatlin where a curse has marked Lena's family of powerful Supernaturals for generations. A Gatlin where impossible, magical, life-altering events happen.
Sometimes life-ending.
Together they 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 town's tangled history and finds himself caught up in the dangerous network of underground passageways endlessly crisscrossing the South, where nothing is as it seems
Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Young Adult Fantasy (2010); Voya Perfect Ten (2010)
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About the Caster Chronicles (Beautiful Creatures) Series
Books in series order
- 1.Beautiful Creatures(2009)
- 2.Beautiful Darkness(2010)
- 3.Beautiful Chaos(2011)
- 4.Beautiful Redemption(2012)
- +Dream Dark(2011)
Reading age: 13+ years
This series should be read in order.
There were no surprises in Gatlin County.
We were pretty much the epicenter of the middle of nowhere.
At least, that's what I thought.
Turns out, I couldn't have been more wrong.
There was a curse.
There was a girl.
And in the end, there was a grave.
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.

