I'm a fan of normal stories told with a paranormal twist, and the murder mystery in Clarity was fairly pacy, with some nice moral questions raised, relating to Perry and Clare's conflict over what to tell the police and whether to suspect him or not. It's nice that in Clarity it's for the love of a brother, as it keeps things a little more real than a girl prepared to sacrifice everything for a boy she met two weeks ago. Clare is quick to defend him, but when Perry starts acting suspiciously, it takes all her resolve and determination not to suspect him herself.Ĭlarity is pretty standard fare for Teen paranormal fiction - two hot boys, each with baggage that makes them mysterious or unattainable, an interesting paranormal element, a plucky heroine who finds herself in peril but keeps going for love. Not only is this driving away other tourists, but Perry was the last person to see the murdered girl alive, and that makes him the prime suspect. Two, and much worse, a tourist in town has been murdered. Clare knows no one can tell the future, but try telling the tourists that. One, a phoney psychic has set up business in a prime spot in town - and is stealing all the business because she claims to tell the future. Their family business is entertaining the tourists, and the summer rush pays the winter bills.īut Clare has two problems. Clare's mother can read minds, her brother Perry can talk to the dead, and Clare can see memories linked to objects. Clare's family are psychic, not the phoney kind who take your money and give you a false prediction about tall dark strangers - the genuine kind. The tourist season at Cape Cod is about to start and for Clarity 'Clare' Fern and her family, this is really important.

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