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Title: Caster Chronicles

Author: Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl

Series or standalone: series

Publication year: 2009

Genres: fiction, fantasy, paranormal, romance, supernatural

Blurb: 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 has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps, and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever. Ethan Wate has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, and is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them. In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything.

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“I don’t really know. They took him away to the Far Keep. We couldn’t be together, but I’m sure you know that. I learned it myself, the hard way. […] That’s what helps me bear it. I just wish my Ethan didn’t have to bear it too. The Far Keep is a cruel place.”

I don’t mind the ending we got for Ethan Carter and Genevieve, but it also would’ve been so intriguing and angst-filled if Ethan Carter was slaving away all this time at the Far Keep. Ethan could’ve met him when he went to the Far Keep to rip his page out of the Caster Chronicles. Maybe he could’ve even helped our Ethan reach the Caster Chronicles. This kind of ending could’ve given him a chance to reunite with Genevieve and finally have a happy ending with her.

[rainybraindays]

Also, going to say, after finishing rereading all the books again, I stand by my thought that Genevieve didn't get to pick who she married after her Ethan died. Its very likely the marriage was planned even before everything happened, and I'm basing this on the fact that she seems to hold no connection to her spouse. Hes never mentioned outside of the family tree, the only man she talks about is Ethan Carter, all her energy as a Sheer is spent watching her descendants and helping bring Ethan L back.

Genevieve very likely wouldn't have wanted to marry, seeing as shes still heartbroken even in death. Her father forcing her to marry, maybe because he didn't want to deal with her, maybe due to his own grief, or because she was the only person who could carry on th Duchannes bloodline at that point, isn't a huge stretch. All we know about her father is that he loved his wife, he didn't like EC, and that he traveled for business. Theres a non insignificant chance he was gone when everything happened and came back to no home, and only one daughter who had just cursed their entire bloodline going forth. Theres nothing definitive from what I can see, but the lack of affection for her husband, the fact that she doesn't even stay in her home in the Otherworld, it doesn't make me think the marriage was exactly her idea

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Chapter 3 is up! And I have many more to go. I’ve been in such a creative boom with this for some reason. I’ve got rarepair brainrot. Thanks to those of you checking it out. I never would have thought anyone would have read it. I wrote it for me but it’s cool to see others checking it out.

Chapters: 3/? Fandom: Beautiful Creatures (2013), The Caster Chronicles - Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: macon ravenwood/marian ashcroft Characters: Macon Melchizedek Ravenwood, Marian Ashcroft, Lena Duchannes, Ethan Wate, Ridley Duchannes Additional Tags: Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Post-Canon, Spoilers for the series, Mutual Pining, slow burn in canon, grieving a friend, Survivors Guilt Summary:

Marian Ashcroft and Macon Ravenwood try so hard to push down what they're feeling for each other worried that they would always be nothing more than friends. But what if they could be? And what did it mean for their dead friend Lila whom Macon claimed to love forever? Now that everything has settled down and Lena and Ethan have gone away for college do the two of them have time to figure it all out?

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Alice Englert and Alden Ehrenreich in an interview with Jill Slattery of Zibio, promoting Beautiful Creatures (2013).

You can watch the interview on YouTube >>> https://youtu.be/Qv5Ewh1cbPs?si=vJKNoIn0NV9ORsgK

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"Beautiful Creatures" by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

Books: Beautiful Creatures, Beautiful Darkness, Beautiful Chaos, Beautiful Redemption Author(s): Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl Publisher: Little Brown & Company Published in: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012.

Summary: a mortal teenaged boy named Ethan meets and falls in love with a girl named Lena who has powers. Together, they find out secrets pertaining to both the mortal world and magical world. Will Ethan and Lena figure out their destinies? Or will the world as they know it end?

My thoughts: The books were told from Ethan's point of view. The whole series took me about a year or so to read. I have to say that I liked the premise of the series. I wish that there was a way for a little more suspense. I was thoroughly entertained when I read the books. The plot twists had me in a choke hold. I didn't expect what was gonna come next. I wish that I could see the two villains actually team up against Lena and Ethan. But this is my opinion. I wish that there was Lena's point of view in all of the books. In my opinion, one of the characters needed to be with someone else. But again, my opinion. This series is an easy read. And if you know someone who would like this type of series, I highly recommend. Lastly, I'd say the age range for this series is about 14 and up.

Rating: 8.7/10

Would recommend.

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Beautiful Redemption: Book Review (The Maddox Brothers #2)

I don’t know. Don’t ask me what was missing but something was, probably in the last 10% of it. Maybe somewhere in how it ended. Hello, dearies! 🚨 I finished the second book on The Maddox Brothers book series Beautiful Redemption, which is Thomas Maddox story. And no, that’s not spoilers because it is in the description of the book, unless you don’t all Maddox boys and how their stories would…

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#bookquotes

Just live your life to the fullest – for yourself. Period!

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What actually happened before Shadow Milk starts his redemption arc :

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“i always was a good thief.”

art by Liam W. (@V762cas on twitter & @V762art on tiktok)

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Happy release day-versary Red Dead Redemption 2 ❤️

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shout out to leverage and especially leverage redemption for unfailingly hyping up these brilliant incredible gorgeous middle aged & older women 🔥

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It's fun with you, because I love you, and I love doing stuff with you. LEVERAGE: REDEMPTION | 3.01 | The Weekend in Paris Job

[rainybraindays]

The fact that Genevieve and Ethan Carter can't even be together in death rips my fucking heart out. And its because he wanted to save her!! These two kept dooming themselves to save the other, and now they're apart forever!! Genevieves left wandering and depressed, while hes rotting in that fucking moat and I'm so fucking sad about it. They deserve better

[oddlyhourpersimmons]

Chapter 4 is up! Thank you to those who are reading. I have so many chapters drafted and outlined lol

Chapters: 4/? Fandom: Beautiful Creatures (2013), The Caster Chronicles - Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: macon ravenwood/marian ashcroft Characters: Macon Melchizedek Ravenwood, Marian Ashcroft, Lena Duchannes, Ethan Wate, Ridley Duchannes Additional Tags: Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Post-Canon, Spoilers for the series, Mutual Pining, slow burn in canon, grieving a friend, Survivors Guilt, marian is bisexual in this, delphine duchannes - Freeform, aurelia ravenwood, reese duchannes, ryan duchannes - Freeform, mitchell wate - Freeform, barclay duchannes, olivia durand - Freeform, john breed - Freeform, Fluff Summary:

Marian Ashcroft and Macon Ravenwood try so hard to push down what they're feeling for each other worried that they would always be nothing more than friends. But what if they could be? And what did it mean for their dead friend Lila whom Macon claimed to love forever? Now that everything has settled down and Lena and Ethan have gone away for college do the two of them have time to figure it all out?

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Alden Ehrenreich and Alice Englert. Beautiful Creatures (2013)