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. Search Charactour. Sign Up Log In. Recommendations Fans of him also like:. See All Recommendations. Get to Know him in See Details. Beautiful Creatures. Lena is so not happy to see her. After Lena tells Ethan her family history, they kiss for the first time.
On Halloween night, Ethan witnesses Lena's family performing a weird ritual. Apparently that doesn't faze him, because Lena and Ethan kiss again the next day in her bedroom. She says she's falling for him. At the winter formal, Ethan loses his cool when the popular crowd pranks Lena. At the same time, he's trying to figure out how to save his girlfriend from a magical fate worse than death. His solution: dig up a Civil War-era grave, of course.
Halfway between though, Ethan learns that Lena made a deal with the Book of Moons, a powerful Caster book, for Ethan's life after Sarafine killed him. It was Ethan's life for something else in return; which unexpectedly turns out to be Macon's life.
Now, Ethan understands why Lena has been acting erratically; she blames herself for her uncle's death. Before the team is about to enter the Sea Cave where Sarafine is hiding, Ethan understands the purpose of the Arclight and, with the help of Liv, is able to free Macon from it.
Once outside, Macon has Green Caster eyes, which confirms that he has switched from an Incubus to a Caster. He also explains how Lila Jane's ghost helped him once The Book of Moons took his life by capturing him inside the Arclight so that he'd be able to free again.
Inside the cave John is holding Lena, who has no idea where she is or what she is doing. Quickly, while the others are fighting, Ethan helps revive Lena. This all because on her last birthday, Lena had learned that if she were to turn Dark, all the Light Casters in her family will die and if she turned Light, all the Dark Casters in her family will die.
One night after these events, Lena sneaks into Ethan's bedroom wearing one of his oversize t-shirts and shorts and crawls into his bed with him. After holding each other, Lena tearfully begs for Ethan's forgiveness for her actions.
Ethan does without hesitance, proving how much he really loves her even after everything she forced him through, and they make up kissing passionately before falling asleep together in each others arms. Soon after they reconcile, Link sneaks through Ethan's window and interrupts them. Link reveals that while the fighting was going on, he was bitten by John on his neck, who is revealed to be a hybrid, half Caster, half Incubus.
Soon Ridley shows up and asks what is going on and after Lena confirms it, Link realizes he is turning into an Incubus. In the last chapter of the book, the "after" part of it, Ridley, who has completely lost her Siren powers and is now a mortal, is shown in her room. Ridley takes the Arclight out of its hiding place and looks at it, then counts down from three and something is "decided" - which is really her decision to lock John Breed into the Arclight.
In the aftermath of Beautiful Darkness , Ethan and Lena have reunited and are stronger than ever. But Lena's Claiming soon has a monstrous effect on both the Mortal and Caster world than anyone would imagine. And in the midst of things, strange things are happening to Ethan. He is being haunted in his dreams that are keeping him up all night - and not by Lena.
He is slowly changing, the foods he is known to like now disgust him and he's forgetting names, numbers and even memories; something Amma seems to know something about as she begins to act strangely as well.
Lena and Ethan soon find out her claiming herself as both Light and Dark has had an effect on Gatlin and the Caster worlds which may end in destruction because now Order is in chaos. Throughout the book, Ethan continues to slowly lose more and more of himself.
He is hearing voices, and is seeing writings and images that no one else can. He is looking in mirrors and sees a whole other person looking at him; though Ethan tries to ignore these events by focusing on the chaos in Gatlin. One day, he and Link who is adapting to his new life as an Incubus go and see a Seer they had seen Amma with.
He informs Ethan that when he died and Lena and Amma resurrected him back in Beautiful Creatures , that when a deceased person is brought back "too fast" they lose a part of themselves and are a "Fractured Soul" or their soul is "divided".
This meaning that that "one half" of his soul is in the Mortal world and his "other half" in the underworld and because his soul is now divided, Ethan will continue to lose more and more of himself with each passing day. When Link asks how they can bring the two back together the Seer simply says that he and Amma "have a deal.
Meanwhile during all of this, as Lena and Ethan and everyone struggle to figure out what needs to be done to save Gatlin, they realize that a happy ending won't be happening this time. Ethan finds that he misses Liv and wishes to amend their friendship, but is wary to do so knowing that Lena does not like her. He eventually goes to see her anyway and, after verifying that there is no romance between them, the two state they miss each others company and agree to continue being friends.
Ethan then invites her to a party which Liv is clearly hesitant about, implying she knows how Lena thinks of her, which Ethan pretends not to know about, insisting she come. She then relucantly agrees, leaving Ethan a note. Naturally, Lena is upset about Ethan inviting Liv over to the party. After some time, everyone eventually finds out a sacrifice needed to be done; the "One Who Is Two," who is narrowed down to be one of them. They then turn over to think it is John having been kept as Ridley's personal caster who then becomes positive it is him, and goes to see Ethan late one night to tell him and goes to the water tower to throw himself off of it where Liv is waiting for him.
There Liv and John share an emotional moment, it being revealed that the two fell in love, and John throws himself over the edge. But the voice Ethan is hearing in his head tells him the price is still unpaid thus the needed sacrifice not being John and the Seer brings John, Liv and Ethan back to his room saving John before he could actually die.
Soon later, while Ethan goes to see the bokor again, he shows Ethan different images and visions with meanings; him being in a dried up field and touching the dried up ground and then watering it and making it better. After putting it all together, Ethan realizes what the Seer is trying to imply Ethan himself is the "One Who Is Two.
He sees Lena directly afterwards and tells her he is the needed sacrifice and they spend the night in each other's arms not talking; just holding and clinging to each other in silence.
Everyone is then informed the next day that Ethan is the required sacrifice and Marian and Liv sobbingly saying goodbye to Ethan the day he must die. He then goes to see Link and they spend one last day playing basketball. He asks Ethan if he's sure about his choice to go ahead with the sacrifice; Ethan simply states he didn't have a choice.
Link then reminisces to Ethan about the day they met on a bus in kindergarten when Link gave Ethan a Twinkie that was on the floor of the school bus; it wasn't and he just made that part up at the time. Ethan then sees Lena one last time to say goodbye and Kelts with her from her house and her voice comes in a jagged rhythm saying he can't ask her to go through with this; his death implying she was sobbing. He tells her to wait for him at Greenbrier and writes, "I will always love you.
He then meets up with her and her eyes are red and puffy from crying and they talk and Lena reminisces about the first time she ever saw him and how she knew she would fall in love with him noticing how even "the sky looked different" after she started to fall for him. She then asks if he believes in love after death and he says, "Yes. Ethan then gives her a map of all the places he dreamed of seeing in the world and in return she gives him her necklace of all her memories, including of him, to hold on for her.
He then makes her promise to Bind the New Order after his death and to do her part in all of this saying that if she didn't, then everything he was going to do would be for nothing.
Lena insists frantically that he just couldn't ask her to live a life without him, but Ethan insists she try and in one last attempt, she goes hysterical pleading with him not to go ahead with the sacrifice. He then simply holds her as she sobs into his chest and tells her, "It's okay. They then share one final moment together with Ethan Kelting, "Goodbye. Ethan goes to confront Amma about having known that he was going to die the entire time. She says she has a way worked out to spare him even though he knows there was nothing to do to save him.
He then silently says goodbye to his dad and takes one final look at his room and belongings and reads his favorite book Of Mice and Men for the last time. He then goes to reach the destination of the water tower.
When he gets there he drops Lena's necklace in the front seat of the car so nothing will happen to it. He then sees John Breed materialize from the shadows.
Ethan asks of everyone was okay and John informs Ethan that he came because it was "harder than you think when you're up there," and that since Ethan was with him when he jumped, he should return the favor.
Ethan finds it hard to believe John was "the same dirtbag who kicked his ass at the fair and tried to steal his girlfriend," and was now a "decent guy," but sees that falling in love will do that to a person. As Ethan and John walk up to the water tower, Amma shows up unexpectedly saying she was "there the day he was born and she'll be there the day he dies" but it wasn't going to be "today.
The bokor tries to release his spirits, but Macon arrives on the scene and confronts Amma about her actions. But Amma says she refuses to have "her boy" be their "sacrificial lamb. Amma tries to get Ethan to leave, but he says he had no other choice but to go ahead with the sacrifice. Amma blames Macon for the outcome of things that resulted in Ethan's required death and vows never to forgive him for it.
In one last attempt to save Ethan, Amma calls on the Greats to try to prevent Ethan's death but they literally turn their backs on her leaving Amma in despair weeping on the ground.
Macon promises Ethan he will take care of Amma as she cries out and leaps for Ethan with Macon holding her back as she hysterically weeps, knowing there was nothing left to do to save Ethan. The final chapter is of Ethan on top of the water tower. As he goes to the edge to throw himself over it, he is dragged back by his other half.
The other half of him tries to stop Ethan from throwing himself over and they fight and battle. Ethan clutches the other half of him and as he looks into his eyes; he knows that they both knew they were going to die.
They then roll over the edge of the water tower and fall towards the ground. After Ethan's death and the sacrifice has been given by him falling from the water tower, Ethan is searching for ways to return to the Mortal world in order to be with Lena as well as his loved ones again.
However, he finds it much harder than he anticipated. Meanwhile, in the Mortal world, Lena is making bargains of her own to resurrect Ethan and she vows to bring him back to life at any given cost; even risking the lives of her loved ones and "trusting old enemies" to bring him back to life.
Ethan is, overall, a nice and friendly guy having a kind personality who is shown popular yet feels like an outcast. Despite being popular in school, and being more than liked by several beautiful girls and accepted by everyone, he is only closest to his childhood best friend Link and his caretaker Amma, who raised him since his father is a shut in before meeting Lena. Also before meeting Lena, Ethan was a bit of a pacifist to where he would even watch someone being bullied and would be unable to say anything or willing to intervene.
Despite this, Ethan is very loyal, well-meaning and totally selfless as well as very protective of his loved ones such as Lena, Link and Amma. After meeting Lena, Ethan began to evolve as a person; becoming more outgoing, standing up for her and being more open with his thoughts and voicing his opinions and speaking his mind more.
Despite his nice and friendly side, Ethan can sometimes be rash and stubborn in his decisions and choices. He is also harsh and can be cruel towards those whom he dislikes particularly John Breed during the second and third novels , but always has the best intentions in mind always thinking and willingly putting his friends and loved ones ahead of himself without hesitation.
This is greatly shown in Beautiful Chaos when he discovers he is the required sacrifice in order to save Gatlin and the caster world and doesn't hesitate to sacrifice himself in order to save Gatlin and the world from destruction along with his loved ones in it. Ethan has also been shown to be very committed. This is more than shown during his relationship with Lena and his unmovable determination throughout the course of the series to find a way to be with her mainly due to him being a Mortal and her a Caster.
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