book of moons is the book that they are reading in beautiful creatures.
book of moons is the book that they are reading in beautiful creatures.
what book are they reading in beautiful creatures?
book of moons
beautiful chaos is the third installment of the beautiful creatures saga. in the beginning of this book ethan and lena are reunited and back together again. after lena’s claiming on her seventeenth birthday with one green eye and one gold, the choice she made wreaked chaos on the worlds of both mortals and casters alike, more than ever thought possible before. in the midst of these strange events unfolding, something is happening to ethan wate, and it’s anything but normal. he is being haunted by nightmares that end up keeping him up all night long, and they aren’t lena’s doing. ethan is changing in freaky and unexplainable ways. he hates foods that he used to love, he’s forgetting names, number and even some memories he thinks he’s going crazy. amma, his family’s housekeeper and his stand in mother figure, knows something of what is happening to ethan and what it means. she refuses to tell him or anyone, keeping quiet and not acting herself. ethan and lena soon discover that lena claimed both light and dark, which has never happened in the history of casters. as the book progresses ethan loses more and more of himself slowly as the days goes by. he starts hallucinating, hearing voices, seeing things that aren’t there like writings on walls. when he looks into a mirror he no longer sees himself, but another person who he truly doesn’t recognize, someone he’s never seen before. one day, ethan enlists the help of his best friend link, who is half incubus, to stalk amma in the tunnels under gatlin which leads them to a bokor man in new orleans. after spying on amma and the bokor they decide to pay him a visit personally as well. the bokor tells them that ethan had died (in the previous book beautiful creatures) and that lena and amma revived him, but they used the book of moons to do it. they ended up bringing him back to life too soon fracturing ethan’s soul, making him split in half, making one now two. he continues to say that part of ethan’s soul is now in the underworld and as a result or maybe even a punishment for severing his soul he will continue to lose himself with each passing day. ethan and lena work together to figure out how to help the small town of gatlin survive the storm of unfortunate events that are happening. they figure out that the only way to restore the order of things, there must be a sacrifice from the person who is “one who is two”. after consulting the bokor they discover that lena isn’t the one who needs to be sacrificed as they once thought. but the bokor does tell them that lena is destined to bind the new order of things once the sacrifice is made. they finally narrow it down enough to assume that the “one who is two” is john breed. they rush to tell him the news at the water tower which is the place he must die, throwing himself over the edge of the tower. because of liv and john’s budding romance this is a very emotional move for john to make, meaning liv would be left behind, loveless. during john throwing himself over, ethan hears a voice in his head that says the sacrifice isn’t as it should be. and the bokor takes john, liv and ethan back to his room and thus saving john before he dies. later after some visions that the bokor man shows him, ethan finally figures out that he is to be the sacrifice, he is the “one who is two” one body, two halves of a soul. ethan tells lena that he is the one who will fix the order, that he has to die. soon most of the ones ethan cares about knows of the sacrifice he has to make. sadness befalls the faces of those ethan holds most dear. ethan goes to spend one last day with his best friend link playing basketball. they talk about the sacrifice, and link questions ethan’s drive to do it, asking if he really “has” to go through with it. ethan replies by saying he doesn’t have a choice, he must in order to make things right again. ethan goes to see lena one last time. ethan asks lena to wait for him at greenbrier and writes “i will always love you. - ethan.” on lena’s bedroom wall. with time ticking by fast, ethan and lena reminisce about their first day they met each other. lena asks ethan if he believes there is love after death, and begs him not to go through with it. ethan tells lena that there are too many lives at stake if he choose not to do it, people will die, many people. ethan makes lena swear she will bind the new order after he dies to make sure that his sacrifice was not in vain. ethan holds a sobbing lena and tells her that it’s okay, even though he knows that is far from the truth. they kelt one more time and then he leave lena, who cries herself to sleep. john breed materializes and tells ethan he has comes to go with ethan so he doesn’t have to die alone, and they walk up to the water tower together. amma appears at the water tower telling ethan that he wasn’t going to die today. the bokor man comes and tries to release evil spirits and suddenly macon ravenwood appears and attempts to confront amma. amma tells macon that if the roles were reversed and it was lena he would have made the same choice. the bokor man tries to attack macon but it doesn’t work. ethan tells amma he has no choice he must sacrifice himself. amma calls on her ancestors, the greats, who ignore her plea to spare ethan. macon promises ethan that he will take care of amma and lena. ethan throws himself over the edge, the other half of ethan’s soul drags him back up and tries to convince him not to die. ethan does it anyways and on the fall down ethan is thinking only of his love, lena, and the song nineteen moons.
beautiful chaos (garcia and stohl novel)
"beautiful creatures: the official illustrated movie companion" by mark cotta vaz, was published in the uk by penguin books on 2 january 2013, as a puffin paperback.









































section::::adaptations.:comic book.









































yen press announced in 2012 it was adapting "beautiful creatures" into manga format, with artist cassandra jean.









































section::::sequels.









































bullet::::- "beautiful creatures" was signed by little, brown, and company for a four-book series, the "caster chronicles", with the follow-up books titled:









































bullet::::- "beautiful darkness", book 2 – published october 12, 2010









































bullet::::- "beautiful chaos", book 3 – published october 18, 2011









































bullet::::- "beautiful redemption", book 4 – published october 23, 2012
beautiful creatures (novel)