Beautiful Creatures movie and book?

Main differences you should know about (many more though if you want to see the rest go to the website in "Source" its near the bottom of the page on tht website) :) <3

The ending of the movie is possibly the biggest difference from the novel. With his memory of Lena gone and free of any ties to Gatlin, Ethan is more than happy in the final moments of the film (which takes place six months after her 16th birthday). He prepares to leave for a college campus tour to New York and stops by the library just before he leaves to say goodbye to Amma. He runs into Lena there, which sparks his sudden lost memories of her, and the film ends with him screaming out her name just as he and Link pass the county line. In the book, the sequel is completely set up in an entirely different way - taking place directly after Lena's 16th birthday (instead of half a year) after she accidentally caused Macon's death and is more than guilt ridden and broken, therefore setting up the events for Beautiful Darkness.

Ridley plays a major role in attempting to kill Ethan in the film than she did in the book. In the film, she seduces Link into accidentally shooting him with a real bullet instead of a blank during the town’s annual Civil War reenactment. However, Link instead kills Macon who was disguised as Ethan. In the book, Ethan actually misses most of the reenactment and neither of these events ever happened.(He was actually stabbed by Sarafine and then Lena does the spell to bring him back and Macon dies in his place)

Lena casts a spell and wipes out Ethan’s memory of her so he won’t possibly die in order to break her family curse (only to have him regain his memories at the very end of the film). This never happens in the novel.

Link discovers the Caster world at the end of the novel when he and Ethan become involved in the final showdown between Lena and her mother, Sarafine. In the movie version, both Link and Ethan are knocked unconscious before Lena's confrontation with her mother.

In the movie, Lena discovers she must kill someone she loves in order to break her family curse, a detail that isn’t part of the book.

In the novel, Ethan dies when he is murdered by Sarafine after she fatally stabs him. Lena and Amma then ressurrect him by making a deal with The Book of Moons by trading his life with someone else's. This, therefore, setting up the major plot line for his needed sacrifice (as well as his severed soul which plays a large role) in Beautiful Chaos. However, in the film his death and murder never happen.

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Beautiful Creatures movie and book?

I just watched beautiful creatures last night and am very intrigued by the story, however since I saw the movie I dont really want to read the first book but start on the second one. Does the movie end where the first book left off? Or am I missing major things the book had that the movie...

The movie is actually much different from the book so you may want to read the first book to get all of the information before you read the second book!

Hope I helped! :)

Don't ever watch the first movie and assume it's exactly the same as the book. Read the whole series.

read the books Link was never shot! the movie is so bad and they are not close to the book! READ!