Suze is a mediator -- a liaison between the living and the dead. In other words, she sees dead people. And they won't leave her alone until she ... read full description
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Dec 13, 2007
Leanna
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I’ve developed a really bad habit: book cheating.
Until recently, I’ve had impeccable reading etiquette. I never flip to the end of the book. I don’t cheat to see if the lovers reconcile or to discover who the murderer is. Instead, I read from cover to cover. It’s only right.
But lately I’ve found myself cheating. I can’t help it—it’s those pesky young adult serials I’ve been reading. They simply aren’t good enough to justify reading the whole series, but they are interesti More...
Until recently, I’ve had impeccable reading etiquette. I never flip to the end of the book. I don’t cheat to see if the lovers reconcile or to discover who the murderer is. Instead, I read from cover to cover. It’s only right.
But lately I’ve found myself cheating. I can’t help it—it’s those pesky young adult serials I’ve been reading. They simply aren’t good enough to justify reading the whole series, but they are interesti More...
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Dec 17, 2009
Abby
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Susannah Simon has a unique calling in life. She's a mediator, a person who can see and talk to ghosts and help them leave earth for wherever they're supposed to go. When Suze moves from New York to San Francisco to live with her mom's new husband and her new stepbrothers, she finds a couple of interesting things. First, there's the hottie of a ghost who lives in her bedroom. Secondly, there's Father Dominic, the principal of her new school who also happens to be a mediator. Third, she's somehow
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Aug 28, 2011
Stephanie
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This was a really easy read and I'd have probably enjoyed it more when I was younger but I found it to be quite mediocre now, what with the larger selection of books that are available in the paranormal genre. It was very basic but the plot and characters were decent and I found that the protagonist was a pretty strong, likeable one - I think Susannah's group of friends, especially Cee Cee sounded intriguing too and I'd like to learn more about them. It'll be interesting to see what the next boo
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Jan 24, 2012
Kay
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This is a fun YA paranormal book with a peppering of romance. It's like a mix of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Veronica Mars, and the Sixth Sense (just the kid who can see dead people, none of the horror).
Yes, it's very girly. But it's also great entertainment for an audience who indulges in girliness every once in a while.
Suze, the protagonist, is a Mediator, someone who can communicate with the dead. In the beginning of the book, Suze moves to California from New York More...
Yes, it's very girly. But it's also great entertainment for an audience who indulges in girliness every once in a while.
Suze, the protagonist, is a Mediator, someone who can communicate with the dead. In the beginning of the book, Suze moves to California from New York More...
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Dec 15, 2009
Mery
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well akhirnya beres juga ^^
buku ini di rekomen Zaizai. sudah lama sih, tapi baru beres baca.
ceritanya cukup bagus, dengan ide gadis remaja sebagai mediator. Mirip2 serial Ghost Whisperer kali yah ^^
Suze pindah ke California yang panas, karena Mamahnya baru nikah lagi. Seneng sih, karena dia ingin yang terbaik buat mamahnya. ada satu yang Suze paling gak suka, gedung tua. karena kalo ada gedung tua, berarti ada hantu.
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buku ini di rekomen Zaizai. sudah lama sih, tapi baru beres baca.
ceritanya cukup bagus, dengan ide gadis remaja sebagai mediator. Mirip2 serial Ghost Whisperer kali yah ^^
Suze pindah ke California yang panas, karena Mamahnya baru nikah lagi. Seneng sih, karena dia ingin yang terbaik buat mamahnya. ada satu yang Suze paling gak suka, gedung tua. karena kalo ada gedung tua, berarti ada hantu.
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Jan 26, 2009
Aleta
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This series was recommended by a librarian who knew that I enjoyed the Twilight series. Good series. Fast reading.
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Aug 02, 2007
Wealhtheow
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Cabot writes frothy YA books that are weirdly good. She has a real skill for writing realistic, fully-realized young female protagonists. They never feel by-the-numbers, despite the cliched positions they find themselves in (this particular narrator can talk to the dead)--they're always very definitely *themselves*. Also, even her most otherworldly of books has an edge of common sense to them, which is a welcome change to the "vampires are just like humans, only sexier" route most "
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Mar 09, 2011
Reading Vacation's Mom
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Suze has an important job. She helps dead people cross over from Earth to their final destination. It sounds creepy at first, but it all comes naturally to Suze. She has always had this special gift and she’s good at it too.
There’s a downside to being a mediator (that’s what people with Suze’s gift are called) though. It can take up a lot of your time and some of these dead people are needy and mean. There’s even one who’s trying to kill Suze. Whoa!
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Suze has an important job. She helps dead people cross over from Earth to their final destination. It sounds creepy at first, but it all comes naturally to Suze. She has always had this special gift and she’s good at it too.
There’s a downside to being a mediator (that’s what people with Suze’s gift are called) though. It can take up a lot of your time and some of these dead people are needy and mean. There’s even one who’s trying to kill Suze. Whoa!
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Dec 14, 2008
Sabrina
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The story is about a girl named Susannah Simon, a.k.a. Suze, who is a mediator, which means she can see and talk to ghosts and when necessary, hurt them. Suze spends a lot of time directing the usually unhappy dead to the afterlife. However, her job is not easy, as not all ghosts want to be guided. Everyday she is haunted by the fact that they will not leave her alone until she helps them resolve their unfinished business with the living.
At the beginning of the story Suze moves from Ne More...
At the beginning of the story Suze moves from Ne More...
Aug 30, 2011
Sarah
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Jul 29, 2011
Devina
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*Mild Spoilers* To be honest I didn't realize she wrote The Princess Diaries,not that I read them.I never really expected to like ghost books much so I was in for a supprise,I totally enjoyed this one!I've always loved witty and sassy heroines, who don't take nonsense without giving you their special of knuckle sandwich!And Suze fits the bill.
So now Suze just moved to sunny California from crowded New York since her mom had remarried.It was easier for them to move since her mom was More...
So now Suze just moved to sunny California from crowded New York since her mom had remarried.It was easier for them to move since her mom was More...
Jun 25, 2011
Annie
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I can now completely understand why so many people love this book and the series The Mediator. Meg Cabot does a great job telling the story with truly compelling characters that I would love to meet. Just take away the whole seeing ghosts thing. I couldn’t put this book down. I read it outside in the sun and didn’t even realize I’d gotten badly sun burnt. Ah well.
I, for one, can appreciate the setting of this book. It is set in a Northern California town called Carmel and the main charac More...
I, for one, can appreciate the setting of this book. It is set in a Northern California town called Carmel and the main charac More...
May 30, 2011
Amy (Turn the Page)
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Firstly, let me just say, I doubt you’ll ever read a bad review of a Meg Cabot book from me. I love the woman (her blog is hilarious). In fact, I have a whole (rather pink) bookshelf dedicated to all of her books that I own, which, I’ll admit now, is pretty much most of them. If I’m looking for a great, fun, story, likeable heroines (and a tension filled romance with a ridiculously attractive guy), Meg Cabot never lets me down. I’ll buy her newest book as soon as it comes out, without waiting fo
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May 29, 2011
Kate
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I'm waiting to see where this series goes before I raise my ratings. Basically, I loved the idea. Of course, I loved that movie The Sixth Sense, too, so I guess it's no surprise I'd love this book. I am also a longtime fan of Meg Cabot. Sure, her books aren't for deep thinkers, but if you've got a two year old who wakes up at the crack of dawn and are busy writing a book of your own, Meg Cabot is JUST THE PERSON to read!!
As usual, she didn't disappoint. I loved the main character. One More...
As usual, she didn't disappoint. I loved the main character. One More...
May 08, 2011
Suze is not exactly an average sixteen year old girl. She’s quite different, she’s a Mediator, a person that have the ability to see ghosts and its duty to help them crossover to their afterlife. Suze’s mother got married and they moved from New York to California, Suze expected that her life wouldn’t change much, she only had one friend and she didn’t seem to fit in with anyone else. As soon as Suze arrived she met her first ghost in California, she didn’t expect to see one so soon, but what re
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Feb 28, 2011
Annette
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Shadowland (The Mediator #1)
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This book is the first book of The Mediator series by Meg Cabot. So far, I personally loved reading it because it’s a different book than I’m used to reading. It’s enchanting, thrilling and unbelievable but it’s different. Probably because books that have ghosts in it are usually scary and horrifying but this one will make you laugh and forget that the ghost in the book is even a ghost.
This story is about a teenage girl named Susanna More...
Meg Cabot
This book is the first book of The Mediator series by Meg Cabot. So far, I personally loved reading it because it’s a different book than I’m used to reading. It’s enchanting, thrilling and unbelievable but it’s different. Probably because books that have ghosts in it are usually scary and horrifying but this one will make you laugh and forget that the ghost in the book is even a ghost.
This story is about a teenage girl named Susanna More...
Jan 29, 2011
Irish
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Here I thought this book is full of scary stuff since it's about a ghost hunter. But I was wrong!
Suze is a sixteen year old, moving to California with her mother, stepfather and stepbrothers. She isn't excited about moving to a new place especially since the new house is nearly hundred years old. Obviously, that will give you a creep, living in a house older than you. It means ghost and scary stories. That is normal for us, but for Suze, seeing ghost is way too normal for her.
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Suze is a sixteen year old, moving to California with her mother, stepfather and stepbrothers. She isn't excited about moving to a new place especially since the new house is nearly hundred years old. Obviously, that will give you a creep, living in a house older than you. It means ghost and scary stories. That is normal for us, but for Suze, seeing ghost is way too normal for her.
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Nov 15, 2010
I thought this book was different because of the fact that Suze can see ghosts. But other than that it was a pretty good book, she has a lot of issues in her life like her brothers which she doesn't like, and that she has feelings for a ghost named Jesse, and he's a century old. But at the same time she crushes on a boy named Paul, a rich boy thats on vacation, but later on she knows she loves Jesse and not Paul becuase he was stuck up. And Suze babysits Paul's little brother, John. And John is
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Aug 10, 2010
Brenda
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Susannah Simon seorang mediator-penghubung antara orang hidup dan mati. Dengan kata lain, ia bisa melihat hantu. Dan mereka menggangunya terus sampai Susannah membantu mereka menuntaskan urusan yang belum beres dengan orang-orang yang masih hidup. Tapi Jesse, hantu keren yang menghuni kamar tidur Susannah, sepertinya tidak membutuhkan bantuan. Melegakan sebenarnya, karena Susannah baru saja pindah ke California yang panas dan bermaksud membuka lembaran baru, jalan-jalan ke mal dan bukan ke kubur
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Jul 23, 2010
Hope
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This is my first book by Meg Cabot and I very much enjoyed the book. I got this book from my local library and read it in a day. I’ve picked up and set down this book at least four times before I finally decided to take it home with me. I am glad I did.
Suze sees ghosts, she has always seen ghosts, and she is not afraid of them. She helps them to cross over to where ever they are suppose to go; she is Mediator.
This book was very entertaining and I had a hard time putting More...
Suze sees ghosts, she has always seen ghosts, and she is not afraid of them. She helps them to cross over to where ever they are suppose to go; she is Mediator.
This book was very entertaining and I had a hard time putting More...
Jul 15, 2010
Tania
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Suze is just your average sixteen year old girl. Except she has the ability to see and interact with ghosts. When she moves across the country to live with your mother and her new stepfather she thinks it will be the end of her entanglement with the afterlife...but the house turns out to be from the eighteenth century as does the hot guy ghost invading her room...oh and her school is also older than the hills and the only reason there's space for her in school is because some girl offed hersel
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Jul 07, 2010
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The Gist
Shadowland by Meg Cabot is the first book in The Mediator series.
What We Think
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I stumbled onto The Mediator series by Meg Cabot on my last visit to Barnes and Noble. It looked kinda cool, so i decided I’d buy it. What the heck, right? I’m really glad I did, because this book kept me reading all night. I literally didn’t put it down until I finished it, and I’m reading the second book now.
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Shadowland by Meg Cabot is the first book in The Mediator series.
What We Think
Reviewed by Living Destiny
I stumbled onto The Mediator series by Meg Cabot on my last visit to Barnes and Noble. It looked kinda cool, so i decided I’d buy it. What the heck, right? I’m really glad I did, because this book kept me reading all night. I literally didn’t put it down until I finished it, and I’m reading the second book now.
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Jul 06, 2010
Stephanie
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somehow I found it weird how the cover of the book and the title aren't the same... I bough the book called "Love You To Death and High Stakes" by Meg Cabot, the stories were the same but different title and cover...
I found this book very interesting I'm not the I-Love-to-Read kind of girl, but I just couldn't get enough of the story, I couldn't stop wondering what will happen next. Meg Cabot was using the first person point of view, it was like we actually read a personal diary More...
I found this book very interesting I'm not the I-Love-to-Read kind of girl, but I just couldn't get enough of the story, I couldn't stop wondering what will happen next. Meg Cabot was using the first person point of view, it was like we actually read a personal diary More...
Apr 15, 2010
mina
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Teenlit yang lucuuuu. Jadi inget serial sekolah cewek mata-mata-nya Ally Carter.
Tokohnya, tentunya, gadis remaja, dengan good sense of fashion, smart, dan sarkastis. Oh, dan senang berkelahi, lebih suka menggunakan kekuatan fisiknya untuk mengirim hantu-hantu kemanapun mereka seharusnya pergi. Yap, kali ini, si cewek adalah orang yang mampu melihat hantu, sehingga hantu-hantu itu kesenengan dan minta bantuan Suze (ya itu namanya) untuk titip salam lah sama yang masih hidup, balas den More...
Tokohnya, tentunya, gadis remaja, dengan good sense of fashion, smart, dan sarkastis. Oh, dan senang berkelahi, lebih suka menggunakan kekuatan fisiknya untuk mengirim hantu-hantu kemanapun mereka seharusnya pergi. Yap, kali ini, si cewek adalah orang yang mampu melihat hantu, sehingga hantu-hantu itu kesenengan dan minta bantuan Suze (ya itu namanya) untuk titip salam lah sama yang masih hidup, balas den More...
Feb 28, 2010
Rebecca
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Ever since she saw her first ghost at the age of two, Susannah Simon has been a mediator - in other words, a contact person between the living and the dead. It's her responsibility to help troubled spirits move on to the next world. And it's a responsibility she has always resented. At sixteen, Susannah just wants to be a normal teenage girl, worried about clothes and boys, not dead people. And now that her mom's remarried, she's had to leave New York City, the only home she's ever known, to mov
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Nov 13, 2009
Namratha
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Meg Cabot does a neat portrayal of teen heroines. They are spunky…have some of the most interesting and weird conversations in their heads and more often than not come up with ear-bending dialogue like: “Lay one hand on my brother and I’ll stuff you right back into that grave from which you crawled out.” Yep, real heart-warming stuff…
Suzanne (Suze) Simon is no different. Her widowed mother has remarried and the mother-daughter duo shift from bleary New York to California, sunny-side More...
Suzanne (Suze) Simon is no different. Her widowed mother has remarried and the mother-daughter duo shift from bleary New York to California, sunny-side More...
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Sep 23, 2009
Ashlee
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I've been considering carefully what I was going to say about this book, and I suppose I felt the need to be completely honest with myself as well as anyone reading this. There are times while reading this that you see specks of brilliance, potential for the story to be great, but this seems overshadowed by the main character. I could not for the life of me see eye to eye with any of her choices or understand her reasoning for anything, she seems shallow at times and is worried about her own hap
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Aug 25, 2009
Cindy
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This book is very interesting. When i read the title, i never knew a mediator could be a person, who can talk to ghost. Well, this book is about how Suze have to move to California because her mother got remarried. Suze really like the guy her mother remarried, but she loves living in New York City. Her new-stepfather already have 3 sons. Suze is a mediator, in which she has powers to talk to ghosts and help them with their problem. When Suze moves into her new home, she founds out that th
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Aug 23, 2009
LK
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Right off the bat, I'll 'fess up - I've come to the Meg Cabot party a little late. Meg started writing her young adult novels after I had already passed through that stage of my life and in fact after I had written my first young adult novel. After taking a too long break from writing, I am back to it and forging ahead, and along with that, I am reading more than ever. I knew I wanted to read some of Meg Cabot's work, but didn't want to start with the Princess Diaries series as it was ten books
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May 04, 2009
Gail
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Suze's widowed mother remarries and moves sixteen year old Suze across country. The transplanted Brooklynite is nearly blinded by the pastels and sunshines of Carmel, CA! She has nicknamed her three new stepbrothers Doc, Sleepy, and Dopey. She's mesmerized byt the ocean. What really makes her nervous is that she lives in a very old house and goes to school in a Catholic mission, that's three hundred years old.
Suze hates old buildings. Suze isn't your ordianry teenager, but one w More...
Suze hates old buildings. Suze isn't your ordianry teenager, but one w More...
