Elixir

Knowing that you could live forever? Elixir: the gift of life; or a curse of reoccring death? Elixir is a thrilling novel written by Hillary Duff. Your first thought would be that this Disney star Lizzy McGuire,singer/songwriter cant possibly have a talent for writng as well. Well you're wrong. The protagonist of Elixir is Clea Raymond whos mother is a successful politician and her father is a world renound doctor/scientist who has gone missing while doing research in Rio de Janero. Clea's best female friend is Rayna who is the person who always had Clea's back and extremely flirtatious. Her best male friend/ secret lover is Ben who was hired by her father before he went missing to be her bodyguard to protect her from "unknown dangers." Elixir begins the plot when Rayna and Clea are working in Europe for a photography job that Clea was offered. When they return home Clea searches through her pictures and finds an apperation of an attractive man in EVERY picture that she took. Frightened, she began flashing pictures all over her room and found that the paranormal figure was watching her. She begins to have vivid dreams of this man but the female in her dreams were always different, and didnt look like her, but she felt the same emotions as if it was her. Clea tells ben about the dreams and he believes that it is an incubus, "Alost soul...evil spirit that attaches its self wo wemon...and has relations with her in her sleep" (Duff). Clea gets offered another photography job down in Rio during a big festival. There's only one problem: Clea's father went missing down there while he was on busniss a few years ago and hasnt been found. Clea and Ben travels there for her job and to search for more information about her father until she sees HIM, the paranormal apperation in her pictures, the mysterious man in her dreams,"The man from my dreams was on the beach"(Duff). The stalker, Sage, is actually knowlegeable and witty, which makes Clea fall more deeply in love with him. Clea figures out that Sage has a possible connection with her missing father who becasue Sage is always on the run from 'elixir hunters'.They return home to only fine more information of the Elixir and they are off to Japan to find out the truth about Clea's father. They are soon off to japan to find the 'Little Door' where they find the eldest person who knows of the elixir who is a frail five hundred years old. She tells Ben, Clea, and sage of all their past life connections, and they are unseperable; their souls always come together and always end with Ben and Clea dying by the'Elixir hunters'. Sage is the only one that can survive becasue he has the elixir so he can live forever. The five hundred year old woman tells the group that to stop the chase, Sage must die by suicide and burning his body, just to spare the souls of Ben and Clea. The books strongly suggest that people should fllow their heart as shown in the love triangle between Clea, Ben, and Sage. Clea cant decide if she wants the "bad boy" or the "loyal one" , but decides that she wants to expirience both. Elixir is similr to thar of Twilight becasue of the love triangle, et action packed like the Hunger Games becasue they are always being chased in the book and dodging the bullet from the 'elixir hunters'. But also like the Alchemist with the same slogan that it's not about the treasure, it's the journey with the constant chase and traveling all over the world with her two lovers. I enjoyed this book becasue this was romantic, action packed and an easy read. It was very predictable and very detailed, at times too much. Duff did an adequiate job at making this fiction book. I would reccomend this book to a female 13 and up espically to thoes who are intrested in Twilight for the romance or hunger games for the action.

One word: amazing. It's absolutely amazing, riveting, and beyond my expectations. Hilary has done a wonderful, wonderful job. This book kept me on edge the whole time. It's got this dark twist that I love, and it's got me hooked! Must read, 4 star. If you want a break from all the vampire craze, this is IT.

Hmm I didn't really like this book, it was between Tuck Everlasting, The Immortal Series, and Fallen, nothing orginal in this. The guy has lived forever she keeps dying ugh, so anyways wouldn't read the next one that came out.