Andie’s body was never recovered, and Sal was assumed by most to be guilty of abduction and murder. The original investigation concluded with most of the evidence pointing to Sal, who was found dead in the woods, apparently by suicide. For her senior capstone project, Pip researches the disappearance of former Fairview High student Andie, last seen on April 18, 2014, by her younger sister, Becca. Pip has known and liked Sal since childhood he’d supported her when she was being bullied in middle school. YA)Įveryone believes that Salil Singh killed his girlfriend, Andrea Bell, five years ago-except Pippa Fitz-Amobi. Nice-guy supporters will resent the bum rap Duff gives to Ben, Clea’s other admirer, but they’re the wrong audience for this purple, obsessive, murderrific series opener. When they realize he can prevent her destined bloody death only by committing suicide himself, she faces a choice familiar to genre readers. Pragmatists, stay away: Clea meets Sage (the brooder) and has sex with him while still unsure whether he’s her timeless soulmate or personal serial murderer. In each dream, she’s a woman from the past and dies violently.

After Clea discovers a magnetic man brooding in every photo she takes-sometimes impossibly, like suspended in the air-nightmares about dad become whirlwind dream romances with the brooder. Her senator mother and perfect pal Rayna (gorgeous and unfailingly supportive) can’t make up for the disappearance and presumed death of Clea’s father (“the most renowned heart surgeon in the world”). Wealthy, famous teen Clea (homeschooled, but seemingly only so the text can ignore schooling entirely) travels internationally on professional, merit-earned photojournalism assignments. Ludicrous wish-fulfillment trappings surround immortality, gore and passion.

Elixir by hilary duff