Essay

Authors Note
The reason for writing this essay is to tell others about the book Elixir. Not a lot of people expect that Hilary Duff could write a good book. This essay is me saying "She CAN!" After reading this consider finding this book and reading it. You won't regret it.   

Elixir

By Hilary Duff

                               

            I really enjoyed the book Elixir. I couldn’t put it down. Even on the weekend there was no stopping with this book. There’s so much happening that you just need to keep reading and reading.  The book was an excellent irony with romance.

The reason I found it an irony was because in the beginning Clea was feeling dizzy and sad because remembering about her dad disappearing. Then the fire with Rayna got Clea scared then she  took pictures of the fire. That night when Clea uploaded the picture she found a man in the back-round that she hadn’t noticed before.  Checking more photos she found him in all of Clea’s favorite pictures. That was one of my favorite parts of the book because I started to wonder what was going to happen and how other people would react if you told them.

             When the bigger sense of chaos comes when you meet the man, Sage, in the pictures and Clea starts to find clues of other lives she has lived with Sage.  And always in the end of that life you die because of him.  Also Clea, Ben, and Sage are trying to find what happened to Clea’s father. When they found out what happened, Sage has to kill himself so he won’t be able to keep killing Clea in her other lives. He never ends up killing himself though. So Clea is left wondering when her soul mate will be killed. That is how it ends in sad way.

            There is also romance in this because all of Clea’s previous lives she would be in love with Sage. So during the mystery of finding what happened to her dad, she is falling for Sage. But at the same time Ben is in love with Clea. Ben is the guy who is there for her when she is in a bad situation. So he is her body guard pretty much but they are really good friends at the same time. There is also a secret about him and his previous life’s that you can find out if you read the book.

            The climax is when Ben calls for Clea when Sage is about to kill himself and the bad guys find Sage and take him away to somewhere that is not told in the book. Clea even said so herself in the book that if Ben wouldn’t have called me this wouldn’t have happened. Everything would be different. There are a lot of areas that could have people thinking that it was the climax because there are a lot of action parts where things change really fast but I think that when Ben ruins it there really is no going back.