Chicken bones relate to this story because Ethan says in the book when he is spying on Amma one night, that it looks as if she is using chicken bones and throwing them on the ground to summon her ancestors to help protect and give advice to her to help protect Ethan and Lena. Amma also uses them to summon Ethan's dead mother so she can talk to Ethan and tell him to help save Macon from the Orb.

The reason I chose this picture to represent Beautiful Creatures is because in this novel, Amma, Ethan's housekeeper for his entire life, is a witch who summons her ancestors to protect Ethan and Lena as Lena chooses which side she will be on, the Dark or Light. Amma summons her ancestors to kill all of the shadows that Lena's Evil, Dark Mother, Sarafine has summoned to make sure that no one will get to Lena as Sarafine calls her 17th moon out of time and tries to get Lena to turn Dark, Killing every light member in her family.

The reason this picture relates to Beautiful Darkness is because Beautiful Creatures was made into a movie with this man being Macon Ravenwood. Macon Ravenwood is Lena Duchannes uncle. He is known as the crazy old man at the Ravenwood Plantation where no one goes because they believe it is haunted. In this story, Macon is a big part of Lena's life, and when he tragically dies in Beautiful Darkness, Lena is pushed over the edge and chooses to go dark briefly because she believes it is her fault he is dead.

Lemon and rosemary relate to Beautiful Darkness because in the book Lena, the main female character smells of lemon and rosemary. It also relates because behind Lena's mansion, there is an orchard of Lemon trees in a small southern town called Gatlin, where the family cemetery is.

Ethan Wate used to think of Gatlin, the small Southern town he had always called home, as a place where nothing ever changed, not the people, the sights, or the traditions. Then he met mysterious newcomer Lena Duchannes, who revealed a secret world that had been hidden in plain sight all along. A Gatlin that harbored ancient secrets beneath its moss-covered oaks and cracked sidewalks. A Gatlin where a curse has marked Lena's family of powerful Supernaturals for generations. A Gatlin where impossible, magical, life-altering events happen, events that would change Ethan's life forever, or end it...

Together they can face anything Gatlin throws at them, but after suffering the tragic loss of Macon, Lena's cherished Uncle and succubus, Lena starts to pull away, keeping secrets that test their relationship. Now that Ethan's eyes have been opened to the darker side of Gatlin, there's no going back, he is the key whether he wants to be or not. Haunted by strange visions only he can see, Ethan is pulled deeper into his town's tangled history and finds himself caught up in the dangerous network of underground passageways endlessly crisscrossing the South, where nothing is as it seems. As he travels through the tunnels to find Lena, will he survive the dangers lurking inside?