Series
Caster Chronicles / Beautiful Creatures
Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl · 4 novels · 1 novelette · 2009–2012
Beautiful Creatures, by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, opens the Caster Chronicles around a boy in a small Southern town who falls for a girl from a family of hereditary spellcasters, drawing him into her family's secretive magical world and the choice bearing down on her sixteenth birthday. The series continues through Beautiful Darkness, Beautiful Chaos, and Beautiful Redemption, following the same couple across four books.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(2 editions)
Map
Caster Chronicles / Beautiful Creatures at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2000s1
- 2010s4
Shape
4 novels · 1 novelette
2 authors
reads like:fantasyforbidden lovenorth americacontemporaryemotionalyoung adult
Mood
Grim and intense: 50% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book4 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Beautiful Redemptiondarkest
- Beautiful Darknessbrightest · most intense
- Beautiful Creaturescalmest