History Literature / TheCasterChronicles

* EvilIsSexy: In-universe, [[InvokedTrope invoked]] and relentlessly [[ExploitedTrope exploited]] by Ridley, whose Dark Caster special ability is being a Siren who can convince (almost) anyone to do (almost) anything.
** [[spoiler: Larkin and Hunting]]. are apparently male versions.

* AlmightyJanitor: quite a few: Carlton Eaton, the bumbling local mailman, also delivers all the magical mail around town and knows about the casters. Amma is the Wate family’s housekeeper but also a powerful seer and one of the main magical authorities in Gatlin. The Keepers seem like just representatives of a CelestialBureaucracy but can put anyone on trial and one [[is the final antagonist of the series]]. Thelma, the sisters nurse, know about the tunnels due to taking Prudence down there and also provides some minor help.

The book introduces Ethan Wate, a teenage boy living in Gaitlin, a small town in the southern United States. Ethan cannot wait to graduate high school and get out of what he believes to be a boring small town where nothing ever happens. Then he meets Lena.

* AlphaBitch: Savannah Snow, with Emily, Eden, and the other cheerleaders as her [[GirlPosse Girl Posse]]. They constantly harass new girl Lena for being so unlike the rest of them, to the point of reenacting the last scene in ''{{Film/Carrie|1976}}'' and staging a near-literal witch trial during ''Beautiful Creatures''. And then again, when their English class covers ''Series/The Crucible'' in ''Beautiful Chaos''.

* AlmightyJanitor: quite a few: Carlton Eaton, the bumbling local mailman, also delivers all the magical mail around town and knows about the casters. Amma is the Wate family’s housekeeper but also a powerful seer and one of the main magical authorities in Gatlin. The Keepers seem like just representatives of a CelestialBureaucracy but can put anyone on trial and one [[is the final antagonist of the series]]. Thelma, the sisters nurse, know about the tunnels due to taking Prudence down there and also provides some minor help.* AlphaBitch: Savannah Snow, with Emily, Eden, and the other cheerleaders as her [[GirlPosse Girl Posse]]. They constantly harass new girl Lena for being so unlike the rest of them, to the point of reenacting the last scene in ''{{Film/Carrie|1976}}'' and staging a near-literal witch trial during ''Beautiful Creatures''. And then again, when their English class covers ''Series/The Crucible'' in ''Beautiful Chaos''.

%%* AdultFear

%%* OutNumberedSibling

* FollowTheLeader: For ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' , being a [[GenderFlip gender-flip]] of its "angsty teenage girl falls in love with the hot new boy at her school who turns out to have a supernatural secret" plot.

%% ** Ridley. She is an EnthrallingSiren after all.

* NotSoDifferent: In ''Beautiful Chaos'', we learn that teenage Sarafine desperately wanted to be Light just like Lena did, and that she initially reacted to going Dark a lot like Lena probably would have: by panicking and vowing to resist it. She even succeeded for awhile.

%% * FilmOfTheBook

* WhamLine: on account of how it reveals that [[spoiler: Mercy and Grace also know about the Casters, and what has been happening lately. They reveal that they let Prudence think she was the only one who knew for all those decades as a joke, when in fact they found out before she did]].

* WhiteHairBlackHeart: The blonde Ridley [[spoiler: at first]]. although subverted with [[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold her two sisters.]]

--> Ryan: If you two do anything disgusting and you need me, I'll be downstairs.

--> Aunt Mercy: Well, what if it is? What're ya doin' around here now that Ethan's [[spoiler: gone and passed on ta one world or another?]].

* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Ryan, the youngest of Lena's cousins and a healer who once saves Ethan's life after he touches Lena before being aware of the magic that keeps Casters and mortals from doing that. This trope best exemplified by her line

* BlondesAreEvil: Ridley [[spoiler: at first]]. although subverted with her two sisters.

* BloodIsThickerThanWater: Often cruelly subverted, as whenever someone turns Dark, even though the family knows it's not really their fault and still want to be there for them, they have to kick that child out, as demonstrated with [[spoiler: Sarafine]]. and Ridley, after the last Duchannes child who was claimed dark (Lena'a great-aunt Althea) killed someone after being allowed to stay in the house.
** This gets played straighter in ''Beautiful Redemption'' though, when the family takes back [[spoiler: Ridley]]. although she had done a lot to earn it by then.

* AlphaBitch: Savannah Snow, with Emily, Eden, and the other cheerleaders as her [[GirlPosse Girl Posse]]. They constantly harass new girl Lena for being so unlike the rest of them, to the point of reenacting the last scene in ''{{Film/Carrie|1976}}'' and staging a near-literal witch trial during ''Beautiful Creatures''. And then again, when their English class covers ''Series/The Crucible'' in ''Beautiful Chaos''.

* LoveDodecahedron: In ''Beautiful Darkness''. Ethan is in love with Lena, who he believes [[spoiler: left him for John Breed]], and is beginning to be attracted to [[spoiler: Olivia]]. Link is also attracted to [[spoiler: Olivia]], but at the same time he's still pining for Ridley. Ridley and [[spoiler: John]] are often seen together, so subtext could lead to interpretation of them as a couple. [[spoiler: Lila Jane Evers]]' first love was [[spoiler: Macon Ravenwood]], but he had to leave her because he was afraid of hurting her, so she met Ethan's father. She's still enough in love with [[spoiler: Macon]] to [[spoiler: save him from dying]]. He never stopped loving her.

%% * CompositeCharacter: Amma Tradeau is a combination of novel characters Marian Ashcroft and the previously named Amma.

* GreenEyes: The Light Casters automatically have these. Especially appropriate as the trope page notes green eyes often denote magic-using characters.