Cornelia also yields narrative time to Dev, a precocious teenager whose father is missing and whose mother develops a friendship with Cornelia. Though the extreme of Piper's two-facedness isn't convincing, her moments of sincerity invite genuine empathy. Seemingly shallow and vicious, neighbor Piper shows her kinder side as she struggles through her best friend's fight against cancer. Despite a bevy of domestic dramas (planning a family among them), Cornelia's first-person chapters are the quietest of the three points of view. Cornelia and her husband, Teo, move to suburban Philadelphia, where she finds it difficult to fit into the sorority-like atmosphere. , returns in a gracefully written if formulaic sophomore effort. Cornelia Brown, heroine of de los Santos's bestselling Love Walked In
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