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Haunted (The Mediator #5)

by Meg Cabot (Goodreads Author)

4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 · rating details · 17,942 ratings · 418 reviews

My name is Susannah Simon, and I am a mediator - a liaison between the living and the dead. If you think this gets in the way of my attempts at a normal sixteen-year-old life, you'd be right. You try going to the mall while constantly being accosted by the undead.

Not that this is a bad thing all the time. Like, for example, when I discovered that my bedroom is haunted by J...more

Hardcover, 246 pages

Published January 21st 2003 by HarperCollins

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Jul 02, 2008 Maggie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: All girls

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Dec 28, 2010 Mia rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: paranormal, reviews, young-adult

I'm a BIG fan of The Mediator series, no that there's this fifth book to the collection, I really needed to read this.

The realtionship between Suze and Jesse is one of a kind, mainly because he's a ghost. But, she thinks he doesn't feel the same way. He rarely speaks to her, nobody can see him except her and paul.

Paul's a mediator too (someone who can see and communicate with ghosts). He's one of the bad guys and yeah he likes Suze too! When he kisses her, she actually kisses him back! I was thi...more

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Jul 06, 2008 Jacki rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Teenage Girls

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May 21, 2012 GiraffeAndy rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy-sci-fi, meg-cabot, own, favorites

O 5. díle Mediátora jsem slyšela, že je to jen "výplň" mezi skvělým 4. a 6. dílem a že se tam toho moc neděje. Ale s tím rozhodně nesouhlasím! Pátý díl nebyl o nic slabší než ty předchoží, naopak... Jestli první polovina série byla výborná, ta druhá je naprosto famózní a já jen doufám, že mi to závěrečný díl potvrdí.

Dějově to bylo nabité od první stránky až do konce. Žádná kapitola tam nebyla nudná nebo nedůležitá. Opět bych mohla vyjmenovat jako u každé knihy od Meg, že to bylo napínavé, vtipn...more

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Jul 01, 2008 Anita rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult-paranormal

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This is book 5 of the paranormal young adult series The Mediator. Suze (the heroine) is a mediator, which means ghosts are as real to her as people - she can see them, touch them, talk to them. Her mediator calling means she's suppose to help them along to their afterlife, by any means necessary.

Suze is starting her junior year in high school in this book. A month or so has elapsed since the end of book 4, and Jesse, her house's ghost (with whom she has fallen in love) has not ONCE kissed her a...more

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Oct 26, 2012 Marcia rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Der erste Satz
Nebel.

Meine Meinung
Auch dieses Buch liebe ich über alles. Es hat mich mal wieder total gefesselt. Ich habe es erst heute Morgen angefangen und war schon heute Mittag fertig, weil ich es gar nicht mehr aus der Hand legen wollte. Es hat mich einfach von der ersten bis zur letzten Minute total begeistert.
Dieses Mal ist mein Herz echt aufgegangen, da es wirklich total romantisch und total niedlich war. Ich habe manchmal echt selbst Herzklopfen bekommen. Ich war glaube ich vorallem so...more

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Sep 14, 2012 Campbell rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Early to late female teens, if I had to reccomend it to anyone.

Recommended to Campbell by: The cousins- Ava, Julia, and Maddy.

Shelves: curse, paranormal, plot-only, plane-ride, romance, supernatural, witty

This series is something of a guilty pleasure to me.
I hate it. The writing is awful- the grammar is something I can't even begin to criticize and do any justice to just how annoying it is.
The first person perspective is that of a girl who is sixteen... and likes to believe that she's nothing like the sluts and popular-crowd-girls, when in fact, she is exactly like them.
The main character makes me want to hit something, hit something really, really hard.

But.

It's quite funny, really, in places, an...more

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Apr 08, 2012 Nelia rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fluffstuff, ya

The best one so far (haven't read #6 yet). These books are very light, but good fun. I must admit, setting the books so close together time-wise (They all take place in the same year until book #5) means that our heroine doesn't, shall we say, grow as a person quite as much as one might like considering the number of dramatic experiences she's had. It gets quite old reading about Suze, and several of the people she knows, attempting to solve problems by punching them.
And if Meg Cabot writes the...more

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Nov 20, 2011 lin-lin rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, ghost, meg-cabot, young-adult

Seri kelima dari seri The Mediator.

Mungkin pendapat saya kali ini berbeda dengan yg lain. Saya lumayan suka sama bumbu cinta Suze-Jesse di buku ini. Bumbu cintanya siapa lagi kalau bukan Paul Slater, cowo yang dibuku 4 digambarkan protagonis dan simpatik tapi menjadi antagonis di akhir cerita.

Dan yang saya rasakan saat baca buku ini, lebih berasa intense saat menyangkut relasi Suze & Paul daripada Suze & Jesse, padahal Suze & Jesse ini kan diibaratkan sebagai belahan jiwa.

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Apr 16, 2011 Yola NY rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, mistis, punya, romance, terjemahan

wow! akhirnyaaaa....

udah nunggu dari buku pertama kemunculan hubungan romance jesse-susannah, akhirnya di buku 5 baru deh kelihatan.. keren jg nih jesse aksi cemburunya, walaupun dia jelas-jelas hidup dan matinya di abad 19.

lanjutan dr buku 4, ttg kemunculan Paul, seorang mediator lagi. nah cuma si Paul ini tipe mediator yg agak beda dari Susannah dan pastor dominic. dijelasin deh klo trnyata gak cuma mediator yg ada, tetapi juga para "pengelana". nah, apa sih pengelana ini? gara2 susannah penas...more

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Dec 06, 2010 Reynaldo rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

In this book Haunted, i find it very interesting. The author makes the scenes very realistic and those are one of the things i like about this book. This book reminds me of both of my previous books, Crime Beat and The Baby sitter 3. These books all start off with a story an end with a solution. I chose this book because i am interested in the genre mystery. I like to read about a books that will keep the suspense and want me to know what would happen next. In Haunted, there were chapters I've...more

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Aug 28, 2009 Katy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This was a pretty good book. You have Suze Simon, 16-year-old girl who's really a Mediator, meaning she can communicate with the deceased and help them to their final resting place. In addition to that, she has Jesse, the ghost of a nineteen-year-old Latino who died in the nineteenth century, and, for some reason, is unable to cross over to the afterlife, living in her bedroom. Well, as luck would have it, Suze and Jesse fall in love(yep, a living girl and a dead guy), but there's someone stand...more

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Jun 26, 2009 Gail rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Sixteen year old Suze sees dead people which really complicates the life of sixteen year transplanted Brooklynite still adjusting to life in Carmel California. Summer is over and she's started back at the small private Catholic High School. The previous book ended with her kissing Jesse, the 150 year old ghost haunting her house. Then he disappeared and she hadn't seen him since.

Back at school, she finds out that the rather creepy hottie from her summer vacation is now enrolled in his school. He...more

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Jun 18, 2013 Christina Santo rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: couple-y-books, fantasy, survival-of-the-fittest, supernatural-romance, secret-society

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Okay, so I typed up this long-butt review and now its not here.... Now you guys just get a bullet list because I'm too lazy to retype the whole darn thing out.
-Here's the story of me in the library finding this book: I go to the shelf where the boos normally are, and it's not there. Then, I go to the computer catalog, in hopes of putting it on hold. The catalog says they have it though. So, I wander back thinking I missed it somewhere. Then I think to check the section where the rest of Meg's b...more

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Apr 11, 2011 Melva rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I really enjoy this series. It is very much an easy-reading series - not a whole lot of deep thought needed, but enjoyable. Suze, the main character, is a teenage girl and, refreshingly, speaks and behaves very much as a teenager would. The series, written well before the Twilight books were published, contains everything needed for a fun, romantic read: unrequited love, in the form of the ghost Jesse, kick-butt ghostbusting, and plenty of humor.

In Haunted, Meg Cabot continues to expand the real...more

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Mar 17, 2011 Isabel rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: books-on-my-shelves

These books are really too engrossing. I can't put them down. I have to say that this was probably my favorite book, but mostly because of the plot development. I can't even begin to imagine how this will all end... and I am a book away from finding out. Unfortunately, I will not be starting that right now... Tomorrow maybe. Exciting highlights of the book? The fight scene most definitely. That got way out of hand. The secret that was revealed near the end was a particular shocker too. There wer...more

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Jan 10, 2013 Jessica rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: ya-paranormal, ghost

This lovestory just gets longer and longer... But decpite my annoyence with Jesse and his inability to speak his mind, I really liked this book! It started up something fresh and exciting and gave the series a twist. I do wonder however how little Jake (Jack?) Pauls brother is doing with his mediator skills... I would have wanted to know more about that. But you cant have it all.

The character Susannah has really grown on me. She is funny, brave, strong and... cool (it that too geeky to write?) A...more

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May 18, 2011 Em-em rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Suze finds herself torn between Jesse and Paul. Jesse the one hundred fifty year old ghost when she can't help herself falling in love with and Paul who is a seventeen year old boy whom she fears to be with but can't stay away from, afraid that he might send Jesse to the great beyond for the second time. Suze has to find a way to keep Jesse away from danger; keeping him away from Paul's reach. In doing do, she puts herself in danger from Paul's love for her.

Best book!! Why? Aside from the fact t...more Suze finds herself torn between Jesse and Paul. Jesse the one hundred fifty year old ghost when she can't help herself falling in love with and Paul who is a seventeen year old boy whom she fears to be with but can't stay away from, afraid that he might send Jesse to the great beyond for the second time. Suze has to find a way to keep Jesse away from danger; keeping him away from Paul's reach. In doing do, she puts herself in danger from Paul's love for her.

Best book!! Why? Aside from the fact that the book is funny, full of action and romance the book takes us in Suze's emotions. I know that all of the books takes us inside her because she's narrating and all but that is not what I mean, for this time around it deals with her own emotions. While it is clear to her that she is in love with Jesse, it is not however clear to her how Jesse feels. Which makes her entertain the varying possibilities of Jesse's feeling for her and the meaning behind his actions. It is refreshing to see her being vulnerable. I found myself being able to relate to Suze's emotions especially the part where he told her that Jesse is moving out. I hate Father Dominic in this part of the book. I get it okay that he only wants the best for Suze. Their love has no future so why risk it right? But the girl is in love can't he sympathize a bit? And why is he the one deciding for her? What happened to the good old I-will-be-here-to-support-you-and-guide-you thing? It is not up to him to decide. I was also irritated because he also did not give it a second thought in contesting Suze's emotions the poor girl is devastated and he is forcing her to accept things as fast as a snap of his fingers. What is up with that? Give her some time okay? Okay..okay I have to stop I am being emotional here. Then there is Paul. I don't know but I can't seem to hate the guy. I like how he flirts with Suze. He is witty and funny. Sure, the guy has some serious issues with the whole shifting and all. But between the flirting, the funny remarks and being serious with Suze to doing all the bad things he did I still can't hate him or figure him out. But I can't blame Paul, after all he is just fighting for Suze. Then we go to Jesse. Here, he was also a bit of mystery to me. Maybe because he is a century and a half old that is why he lacks the aggressiveness of the modern day guys but he sure was aggressive with Paul. He beat up the guy till his nose broke. Jesse from what I can see is also torn with his own feelings. He understands that they have no future that is why he can't say what he feels. I guess that is what you call love. The two books shows the classic things people do for love fight for it or give up things for it. But I have to tell you, don't give up when you have not did not try fighting first. And don't give up easily too. Love has many surprises kept under its sleeves you may not know what is in store for you not until you try to find out. and this one goes for Jesse. Good that he tried in the end. (less)

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Mar 23, 2011 Cherrylea rated it 5 of 5 stars

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4. We learn more about mediators, which is always cool. Apparently, Suze is different from even normal (if you can say that) mediators - she's a shifter, who can...more

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Mar 18, 2013 Zemika White rated it 4 of 5 stars

The book was interesting, but sadly I haven't read the first 4 books. But I caught up with the plot of the story quite quickly.
I think the theme of the whole book overall is : Choices are difficult, because Susannah couldn't make up her mind on either she should she choose to learn about herself as a mediator from a boy she does not like. Or should she stay with what she already know about being a mediator and not discover what she really is. In the text it states " All the nightmares about lon...more

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Oct 03, 2012 Alicia rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book was a departure from the norm in the series in that the ghost mediating took a back seat to the interpersonal relationship development. Okay, it was a lot of drama.

Still, because it was Suze telling the story, it was fun. The girl has a gift with sarcasm. Besides, what's not to love about plot twists coming about from trying to wear Jimmy Choo mules that aren't broken in? There were several interesting turns of events from that, the least of which was Jesse's desire to put butter on h...more

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Sep 13, 2011 Brandi ;) rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011, ghosts-immortals-of-all-kinds, i-dont-wanna-grow-up-ya-read-as-ad, kindle-kindle-love-my-kindle, mediums-psychics-those-who-see-dead, paranormal

I have really enjoyed this series and I have every intention of finishing the last book, however, this book just didn't do it for me. I know a lot was revealed about 'what' Suze is and what all she can do that she was unaware of, that part was great. I just got sick of hearing about Jesse. Good gracious me, that was ALL she thought, talked, whined, moped and pondered over. Jesse, Jesse, Jesse, ect. Why doesn't he like me? What did I do? How could I kiss someone else and like it when I love Jesse...more

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Sep 14, 2010 Darin rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Meg. Cabot. Is. AWESOME!!!! XD
I'm on book 5 of The Mediator and I'm still hooked to the series.
A combo of romance and a tint of thriller, The Mediator is about... a mediator! Susannah Simon, age 16, a teenage girl going to the Juniperro Serra Catholic Academy. She's not just a teenage girl, though. she can see ghosts. Until a few months ago, she hated being a mediator. She had to kick ghost butt and 'cause a whole lot of trouble, when really she was protecting herself. But now? Jesse, the hot...more

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Jun 27, 2011 Nina rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: chick-lit, fantasy, romance, young-adult

I think that this was an interesting installment. There were very little mediator events, which I appreciated. The book mostly concentrated on Jesse, Suze and Paul's love triangle. I was expecting another cliche mediator event to happen, but Meg Cabot surprised me and didn't go down the lane. Instead, all we had in this book was a love triangle. Surprisingly, it was enough for me. I didn't find myself too bored. While trying to remember what was in the previous 200 pages of the book, I can't see...more

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Sep 29, 2009 Astoria Malfoy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Meg Cabot fans, supernatural readers

Recommended to Astoria Malfoy by: a friend

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Oct 08, 2009 Charla Aranda rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Susannah Simon discovers she is a mediator between the dead and the living. She can see, talk to and even kiss dead people, preferably hot young men. In fact she has an 18th century hottie, Jesse, haunting her room. But if having real ghosts haunt wasn't enough, she has a real guy, Paul, haunting her life. Apparently he has the same gift she does and desires to teach her more about it. Eventually giving in to Paul's beckoning, Suze soon realizes that that's not all that Paul wants to teach her....more

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Dec 06, 2007 Capu rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Everyone!!

I loved this one!! I was heartbroken when Jesse went to the rectory, but oh did my heart flutter at the end - woooo!!! Nice twist too with "Grandpa Slater".

I agree, the fight chapter was hillarious!!! I love that CeeCee realized finally who Jesse is. And I love how she is willing to let Suze explain it all in time. What a great friend!!

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Oct 11, 2009 Mery rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Di akhir cerita buku empat sudah jelas, Suze pergi ke dunia lain untuk jemput Jesse, tapi siapa sangka Paul Slater, kakaknya si Jack bisa ada di sana juga.

Well itu menyebabkan tanda tanya besar buat Suze.

di buku ini Paul ngasih penjelasan ke Suze siapa dia sebenarnya. dan Paul percaya bahwa dia dan Suze bukan sekedar Mediator biasa. Mereka bisa menukar roh.

Anyway, dari semua seri aku kurang sreg sama yang ini. Pertama karena sebel ama Paul :P

Kedua si Suze nya cengeng akh, Jesse memutuskan untuk...more

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Jun 29, 2012 Heidi rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

What a disappointment. I guess after three good books and one pretty good one in a series, the series can sometimes peter out. Suze, our butt-kicking ghost mediator, turns lovesick in this book. All she can think about, even in the heat of the moment when her life is in danger, is how much she's in love with Jesse, the man she can't have because he's dead and haunting her bedroom.

But then there's Paul, the mysterious hottie who recently transferred to Suze's school. They met in the last book, he...more

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Aug 15, 2011 Kristen rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A very disappointing read. At first I thought this book would be awesome - since Cabot has some great books. However, whenever the plot would become interesting or even a little compelling - Cabot changed the plotline to be a strange romance. I felt like this book was book 2 in a series and I missed some information. (Which in fact I had)
Susanna is a mediator and can communicate with the dead, but she is also in love with a ghost named Jesse. There is also Paul, another mediator, who wants to be...more

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About Meg Cabot

Librarian note: AKA Jenny Carroll (1-800-Where-R-You series), AKA Patricia Cabot (historical romance novels).

Meg Cabot was born on February 1, 1967, during the Chinese astrological year of the Fire Horse, a notoriously unlucky sign. Fortunately she grew up in Bloomington, Indiana, where few people were aware of the stigma of being a fire horse -- at least until Meg became a teenager, when she flun...more Librarian note: AKA Jenny Carroll (1-800-Where-R-You series), AKA Patricia Cabot (historical romance novels).

Meg Cabot was born on February 1, 1967, during the Chinese astrological year of the Fire Horse, a notoriously unlucky sign. Fortunately she grew up in Bloomington, Indiana, where few people were aware of the stigma of being a fire horse -- at least until Meg became a teenager, when she flunked freshman Algebra twice, then decided to cut her own bangs. After six years as an undergrad at Indiana University, Meg moved to New York City (in the middle of a sanitation worker strike) to pursue a career as an illustrator, at which she failed miserably, forcing her to turn to her favorite hobby--writing novels--for emotional succor. She worked various jobs to pay the rent, including a decade-long stint as the assistant manager of a 700 bed freshmen dormitory at NYU, a position she still occasionally misses.

She is now the author of nearly fifty books for both adults and teens, selling fifteen million copies worldwide, many of which have been #1 New York Times bestsellers, most notably The Princess Diaries series, which is currently being published in over 38 countries, and was made into two hit movies by Disney. In addition, Meg wrote the Mediator and 1-800-Where-R-You? series (on which the television series, Missing, was based), two All-American Girl books, Teen Idol, Avalon High, How to Be Popular, Pants on Fire, Jinx, a series of novels written entirely in email format (Boy Next Door, Boy Meets Girl, and Every Boy's Got One), a mystery series (Size 12 Is Not Fat/ Size 14 Is Not Fat Either/Big Boned), and a chick-lit series called Queen of Babble.

Meg is now writing a new children's series called Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls. Her new paranormal series, Abandon, debuts in Summer of 2011.

Meg currently divides her time between Key West, Indiana, and New York City with a primary cat (one-eyed Henrietta), various back-up cats, and her husband, who doesn't know he married a fire horse. Please don't tell him.

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