Love You to Death & High Stakes (Mediator, #1-2)

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Love You to Death & High Stakes (The Mediator #1-2)

by Meg Cabot (Goodreads Author)

4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 · rating details · 1,661 ratings · 82 reviews

Meet Susannah Simon: she's a typical teenage girl, who just happens to be a ghost-hunter ...oh, and she's also dead-over-heels for Jesse - the sexiest spook ever! But can this girl get her ghost? In "Love You to Death", Suze arrives in California and has barely unpacked when her mediator skills are put to the test. A vicious spirit in her new school is hell-bent on making...more

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Published 2010 by Macmillan Children's Books

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Oct 19, 2010 Nic rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: People looking for a light, fun & quick PNR read

Shelves: 2010, paranormal-supernatural-world, young-adult

"I may have been dead for the past hundred and fifty years, Susannah," Jesse said, "but that doesn't mean I don't know how people say good night. And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves."

This books was loads of fun. It kept me entertained with it’s witty characters, action packed plot and a budding romance.

The plot was fast paced and well written. It was a little bit predictable, so I thought. But Cabot through in a few unexpected surprises.

Suze is a...more

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Feb 28, 2011 Lisa O. rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy, ya-lit, paranormal-ya

I got until page 152 before I decided to shut the book.
It is fast-paced and action-packed but I am not sure whether it is because the young-at-heart that is in me is dying and i am entering middle age or because this book is channeling Buffy The Vampire Slayer so much that i just find it plain boring. Needless to say I hope it is the second option.

Suze is a ghost slayer rather than vampire but since ghost can't die she is the one who sends them on their way, therefore a mediator. The nerdy fri...more

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Sep 04, 2011 Eva-rose rated it 4 of 5 stars

Love You To Death: The first book was great, Suze is a great character and the kind of really strong girl who I like to read about. She isn't a blonde 'girly' girl which I really hate reading about. The story is great and I love the ghost of Heather and also Father Dom and Adam and Cee Cee.
The only character I really dont like is Jesse. Just something about him that really, really irritates me!! Its like what kind of a pervy ghost just floats around in a teenage girls bedroom? You'd think once...more

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Dec 18, 2010 I r h rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: young-adult, fantasy, ghosts, 2010, review

This is Meg Cabot's first book I read. I bought it because it seems an enjoyable book - and it's been.

The story is simple - it's not a big story or a big mystery, it's just what it seems. The characters aren't remarkable - the main character is Suze, and the others are there just to accompany her. I've liked her more in the second book.

So, as I had said, it's an enjoyable book. I hope the others are better...

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May 23, 2011 Shelagh (The Word Fiend) rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: reviewed, books-i-own, urban-fantasy, young-adult, favourites, ghosts

Review from my blog The Word Fiend.

Personally I love those gems you find when you stumble across a book that looks interesting and decide to give it a chance. While browsing the shelves of one of my local bookshops Love You to Death & High Stakes caught my eye and boy am I glad I decided to take a chance on it. This is definitely one of my gems.

The cover design for Love You to Death & High Stakes is quite simple, but the model’s piercing green eye and no-nonsense expression draw you in a...more Review from my blog The Word Fiend.

Personally I love those gems you find when you stumble across a book that looks interesting and decide to give it a chance. While browsing the shelves of one of my local bookshops Love You to Death & High Stakes caught my eye and boy am I glad I decided to take a chance on it. This is definitely one of my gems.

The cover design for Love You to Death & High Stakes is quite simple, but the model’s piercing green eye and no-nonsense expression draw you in and the lettering stands out nicely in white and red against the black background. It’s a case of less-is-more with this cover and I can’t picture a design that would have worked better for the book.

I have to be honest and admit that the fact that Meg Cabot is well-known for The Princess Diaries series did make me wary when I started this book. But I have to eat a big serving of humble-pie here – Meg Cabot knows what she’s doing and delivers a great paranormal read for young adults.

Cabot’s writing is slick and pleasant to read, with the story flowing well from beginning to end in both books. The first book, Love You to Death, doesn’t read like the first in a series. The characters and the world seem so well-established that I could fall right into the story without having to take time to find my feet. The ease of reading follows into the second book, High Stakes, and the story doesn’t need time to gather momentum again, but kicks off almost straight into the action I’d come to expect.

Cabot’s characters are a lot of fun and Suze Simon is probably one of my favourite heroines in the young adult genre. She’s feisty and tends to act before she thinks, but Cabot lets us see behind the tough-as-nails exterior to the sixteen-year-old who just wants to be normal and go on a date for once in her life. Instead she’s stuck with ghosts and their problems. It makes for an interesting balancing act between her everyday life and her role as Mediator.

If you haven’t read Meg Cabot’s Mediator series I’d definitely recommend you give them a try. Who knows, maybe you’ll find your own gem.(less)

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Aug 27, 2012 Ubalstecha rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: what-to-read-after-harry-the-teen

Suze is no ordinary teenager. Oh sure, her mom has remarried and moved her daughter from New York to Northern California to be with her new family. And yes, her new family has three step-brothers, a dog and an overly enthusiastic step-father to cope with. And she has been enrolled her in a catholic school with a dress code. But all of that is nothing compared with the fact that Suze can talk to the dead.

Turns out Suze is a mediator, one who is fated to help the dead transition between life and...more

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Jul 24, 2011 Melannie :) rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, summer-reads-2011

This is my ALL TIME favorite series,
and I won't try to describe how awesome it is,
and believe me, I would know exactly how awesome... I've read each book about 7 or 8 times. And more to come.

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Nov 15, 2011 Lolita rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: already-released, books-that-i-own

I would like to give 3.5 stars to this book. This book is actually two books in one, book one would get 3 stars and book two 4 stars. I really looked forward to reading this book. I haven't read that many books about ghosts, so I was really looking forward to it. I like this book and story, but I just don't like the beginning. The book begins whenn the lead character Suze is moving from New York to California. In the beginning it is really slow, with many details that aren't really necessary to...more I would like to give 3.5 stars to this book. This book is actually two books in one, book one would get 3 stars and book two 4 stars. I really looked forward to reading this book. I haven't read that many books about ghosts, so I was really looking forward to it. I like this book and story, but I just don't like the beginning. The book begins whenn the lead character Suze is moving from New York to California. In the beginning it is really slow, with many details that aren't really necessary to the story.
So the first 90 pages are pretty boring, after that the story get's really interesting. Suze is a mediator who has to guide ghosts who are still in the living world to the world thereafter. This sounds really peacefull, but in fact Suze can "kick some serieus ghost butt", as she likes to state. She actually get's in fights with the ghosts. She quickly adapts to her new home and has two ghosts to bother with.
One is an agressive ghost of someone who recently died and now haunts the school. The other one is Jesse, who haunts her new bedroom. The text on the back of this book makes it sounds like she falls instantly in love with him, while in fact this is a really slow process. I like it that they don't fall in love immediately.
Further I have to say that I like Suze, she is not afraid to get in fights with the ghosts she has to guide to the hereafter. And doesn't back off easily.
To conclude, this book starts off really slow and there are too much details and descriptions that are unecessary to the story. After the first half of the book this seems to disapear and it becomes a really good story about Suze, a likeable character who helps ghost to the afterlife in a sometimes gressive way. Altough she also helps ghosts the normal way, by talking to them. I like the fact that this book is about ghosts, because it something different and I think ghosts are an interesting supernatural creature that can use some more attention in this genre. I am definitely reading the rest of this series. I am looking forward to read more of Suze's adventures.(less)

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Nov 01, 2011 Sabrina rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy

If you like the light adventure-thriller, this book is definitely good for you. Well, I could guess all twisted mysteries inside and I didn't feel so surprised when all the cards were opened. But like I said, this book is a light adventure-thriller-mystery-whatever.
But...
Susannah rocks!! She become one of my favorite heroine with her kick-ghost-butt styles. She was tough, stubborn, and also mean sometimes. But I like her.
Other characters only get small portion in the book. But there are not much...more

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Jul 10, 2011 Cecilie Tejlmann rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: supernatural, what-i-loved

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Nov 25, 2011 Suzanne (Paranormal Pages) rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: ghosts

I am going to review this series altogether rather than book by book.

The Mediator series is about Susannah Simon (Suze as she likes to be called), a sixteen year old girl who is a mediator, which means she can see and speak to the dead. She helps them with any unfinished business they have on earth so that they can pass on, and sometimes she has to kick ghost butt.

The story starts with Suze moving from New York to California to live with her mother's new husband Andy and his three sons, David,...more

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Jun 06, 2011 Cody Young rated it 3 of 5 stars

I consumed the first book in this little duo in a single sitting. Love You To Death has a strong heroine, with a slightly snarky attitude to life. The hero, Jesse, is rather sweet and enigmatic, even if all he really does is lurk in Susannah's bedroom for most of the book. I got the feeling that this book was for slightly younger young adults than some other similar novels - though the author does not dumb down the vocabulary. I think I might have to check 'self-abnegation' myself! I didn't find...more

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Feb 12, 2012 Kendall Desin rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

this book has the first two stories of the series. i read the first a while ago and now just read the second one. i remember really liking the first one and thought the second was just awesome! i loved all the action and the main character is one of my favorite girl characters because of her toughness and attitude that dosent annoy you like a lot of other girl characters do most of the time. i think i enjoyed the second better even though it's been a while from reading the first book to really d...more

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Feb 21, 2012 ★Meghan★ rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: dead-tree, fiction, read-in-2012, young-adult, ghosts, paranormal, fantasy, romance, supernatural, paranormal-romance, vampires, superheroes, urban-fantasy

This book is 4.5 Stars (with a leaning toward 5 stars).

I really liked this book. The writing was good. The characterization for Susannah (the main character) is really good with her kick-ass attitude.

Since there are 2 books in the one I will give 2 different reviews.

Shadowland
Susannah has just moved to northern California from New York City. She is not excited about her new house or her new school which are both really old buildings because she is can see, hear and talk to ghosts. When she gets...more This book is 4.5 Stars (with a leaning toward 5 stars).

I really liked this book. The writing was good. The characterization for Susannah (the main character) is really good with her kick-ass attitude.

Since there are 2 books in the one I will give 2 different reviews.

Shadowland
Susannah has just moved to northern California from New York City. She is not excited about her new house or her new school which are both really old buildings because she is can see, hear and talk to ghosts. When she gets home she finds a ghost in her bedroom, Jesse. He died probably around 150 years ago and is a continuing story probably through most of the books since he was in the 2nd book as well. At the school, she finds out that the priest/principal is also a ghost mediator like herself and has gotten rid of all the ghost except for one. Heather. Heather died about a week before Susannah started school and is refusing to leave until she has had her ex-boyfriend come to terms with being with her even if that means killing him.

I actually really liked this one because the main character is not only seeing ghost but a really logical thinker and doesn't think like the "popular" kids do. Even if she is automatically seen as a person that will be extremely popular. The only thing I didn't like about this book was that the climax was a bit faster than I would have liked.

The Ninth Key
In this 2nd book of The Mediator series, Susannah is just starting to settle in at her new school and is even starting to date some cute boys from the local public schools. However, she seems to be getting in way over her head when her next ghost exhibition leads her in search for a "Red". This book is a bit of a murder mystery mixed with a bit of kick-ass.

I think this book has a little more of the teenage angst, but still solidly good. What I love about these books is that it keeps you entertained and wanting to read more and to find out what happens next. Especially once you pass the initial settings of the books and get into the actual story. Both books had really good story building.(less)

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Jun 10, 2012 Inge *Studying for Exams* rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: young-adult, ghosts, main-character-is-cool, villain-rocks-my-socks, love-interest-is-awesome, fantasy

Now see, this is why I recommend older YA to everyone.

Love You to Death and High Stakes were both great stories. There’s not much else to say about them, other than I was pleasantly surprised. I thoroughly enjoyed both of them and I’ll definitely be reading the sequels. And then I’m gonna read some more older YA because they’re obviously way better than the horseshit that’s currently being written. I could eat an entire bowl of alphabet soup and shit better stories than that.

Love You to Death: S...more Now see, this is why I recommend older YA to everyone.

Love You to Death and High Stakes were both great stories. There’s not much else to say about them, other than I was pleasantly surprised. I thoroughly enjoyed both of them and I’ll definitely be reading the sequels. And then I’m gonna read some more older YA because they’re obviously way better than the horseshit that’s currently being written. I could eat an entire bowl of alphabet soup and shit better stories than that.

Love You to Death: Seventeen-year-old Susannah Simon is a mediator. That means she can talk to the dead, and after honouring their requests, she can send them off to wherever they’re supposed to go. Or if the ghosts are a little reluctant to leave, she kicks their ass and makes them leave. Granted, her methods are a little unorthodox, but she’s very good at it, and she knows it. When she moves to the south to live with her mother, her newly acquired stepdad and three stepbrothers, she expected things would be different. However, she did not expect to have to share her room with a 150-year-old ghost named Jesse, much less fall in love with the guy. She also did not expect that the principal at her new school, Father Dominic, would also be a mediator. And he’s not a big fan of her methods. When a former now-dead student starts terrorizing the school, it is up to Susannah to kick some ghost butt. But the ghost is a lot stronger than Susannah would have thought. She might not be able to do this on her own.

High Stakes: Susannah gets herself in a lot of trouble again when trying to honour a ghost’s wish. With a little help from her new friends Cee Cee and Adam, Father Dom and Jesse, she’s on the path to discovering the shocking truth about a certain family. The family of her new boyfriend, Tad Beaumont. Very entertaining and unpredictable until the very end.

Susannah Simon is a badass. She knows she’s badass and the entire story is about her being badass and kicking ghost butt, but it’s fine because she’s cool and the story was actually about all that. No huge plotline about some cheesy romance that’ll make me puke. I don’t even mind that some things were a little unrealistic and highly convenient, because I was swept away by all the action and by the fact that there was no insta-love. It was then that I decided to have a look at when this book was written. 2000. I knew it! Okay, Susannah is in love with a ghost, but he doesn’t know (yet) and she’s still in denial. All this after two books! They’re actually developing their bond. A friendship before a relationship! Aaah, I can breathe again.

Authors of YA, please take notes. Insta-love sucks.(less)

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Mar 18, 2013 Kate Langtry rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: favourites, special

I first read "Love You To Death" in 2004. It was one of the first Fantasy novels ever for me and is one of my favourites until today! I read all six books at least once a year and I guess I should not review them at all, because all I will be doing is swooning and gushing over how great these books are. I truly love the Mediator-books. I even had to replace mine with new copies because they were so tattered from reading. I´m going to try reviewing them anyway, but please don´t expect me to give...more I first read "Love You To Death" in 2004. It was one of the first Fantasy novels ever for me and is one of my favourites until today! I read all six books at least once a year and I guess I should not review them at all, because all I will be doing is swooning and gushing over how great these books are. I truly love the Mediator-books. I even had to replace mine with new copies because they were so tattered from reading. I´m going to try reviewing them anyway, but please don´t expect me to give any constructive criticism here.

Our heroine Susannah is just amazing. She´s feisty and independent, she can save herself without a man´s help and she is very down to earth. But she still is a real teenager who cares about boys and clothes. In short, she´s everything I miss in many modern romantasy heroines, the perfect mix of tough girl and a young woman who is not afraid of her weaker sides too. On top of that we don´t have a long introduction here, we are thrown right into the plot.

Susannah already knows the paranormal exists and she has damn well adepted to it. She is not spooked by most ghost but rather grabs a tennis racket to bat them into the afterlife if they won´t go willingly. So "Love You Do Death" has an actual plot and is not just the notorious first book in a series where nothing really happens. We have a heroine here that´s surprisingly ungirly but you can still identify yourself with her easily.

The story is set in beautiful Carmel-by-the-sea where Cabot has lived once, so expect a lot of colourful details. The stories of hummingbirds, flowers, spanish missions and the ocean made me desperately want to go to Carmel, because Suze is just as new to it all as most of the readers. So you can discover the town alongside her and just get pulled in by the thrall of this setting. Another great aspect of this novel is, of course, the hero Jesse, who haunts Suze´s new bedroom and just won´t leave.

Jesse is a stubborn ghost from around the 1850s who has been murdered in Suze´s room and won´t move on because he doesn´t know what´s keeping him from the afterlife. I love how he and Suze argue and squabble in the beginning and how their love builds so very slowly. It actually takes them four books to finally get together, which just made the emotions so much stronger. Excellently told love story! The dialouge between the two is very smart and mostly funny, Suze finds Jesse annoying and he is just irritated by her. ("What sort of... girl are you?")

This first book in the series tells the story of Heather, the ghost of an arrogant High School beauty who killed herself over losing her boyfriend. Heather believes that Suze is here to take her place because she gets her old locker and Heather´s ex-boyfriend seems interested in Suze. Now Heather wants Suze to bring her back to life but Suze can´t do that and Heather gets mad. Heather is a great antagonist. I could totally understand why she was so bitter and wanted revenge but I absolutely hated her at the same time. She is also very spooky. A lot of scary scenes in this novel have to do with her cracking up and trying to kill Suze. I was on the edge of my seat whenever the action happened, because it´s just so well written. Spooky, exciting and downright thrilling!

Suze´s "sidekicks" are of course Jesse and Father Dominic, her school´s principal who can also sees ghosts but prefers to help them move on gently. But the minor character´s in the story are great too! I loved Suze´s new friends CeeCee and Adam, I adored her three stepbrothers who she calls Sleepy, Dopey and Doc and I also liked Kelly, Heather´s best friend and Suze´s new frienemy. Tough girl Suze is a very cynical narrator which adds a lot of wit and fun to the narration. The mix of spooky ghost story and romantic teenage comedy is just so perfect and the plot keeps you reading and reading. As soon as it was over, I had to get the next book immediately. And imagine my shock when I found that the last book in the series had not been published yet!

Oh, how I love the Mediator books! And I bet you will too if you like ghost stories with strong heroines, really interesting love interests and lots and lots of beautiful setting and exciting story twists! "Love You To Death" is the perfect book for everyone who likes to read fantasy stories for teenagers with both dark and funny aspects to it. Fans of instant romance stories however might get a little impatient with Suze and Jesse, but be assured that waiting for them to get together really pays of in the end! (less)

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Jan 09, 2011 Bec ♥ Live for the ones you love ♥ rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: books-i-own, favorites

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Jan 11, 2011 ~Tina~ rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-2011, supernatural, young-adult, tbr-booker-challenge, gave-or-give-away

TBR Reduce Challenge #2- 2011 (Jess)

For the oddest reason I've always struggled with Meg Cabot books. She's obviously a skilled writer but something about her style annoys me that I can't seem to shake, so I was surprised that I really enjoyed this one!

Love You to Death & High Stakes were both really great fun books. I enjoyed the supernatural concept and adored the characters. Suze, Jesse, Father Dom and even the brothers Doc, Dopey and Sleepy were pretty cool.
The whole concept kinda remind...more

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Jan 03, 2011 Kelly rated it 4 of 5 stars

Suze has just moved to California, and transferred into a new school there. Her first day is a little different than she imagined though when a nasty spirit decides to try and scare Suze away from the school, but Suze has dealt with ghosts like this before, and isn't afraid to show it who's boss...

This book was mainly about introducing us to the cast of characters, many of which are pretty loveable. I really liked the ghost mediating aspect of it and thought that it was something interesting to...more

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May 31, 2012 Jane rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy, quirky, young-adult, ghosts

Or 7/10. Just what I needed: light, fluffy, smart and good fun. A couple of plot holes and so like Buffy the Vampire Slayer in several ways (the Watcher type character, the Scoobie Gang, the school setting, the hot dead love interest) but all in all very well executed. Interesting to read it 12 years after publication and note the changes in teen culture - its commented as unusual that 4 people in a group have a mobile phone, now they would be ubiquitous. Also, internet usage was obviously a new...more

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Mar 01, 2013 Lorna Mutinda added it

I am rating it 5 stars because I totally love the book. It's just so awesome.Jesee is this amazing guy whom you can't resist loving.Although he is old fashioned but what more can we expect from someone who's been dead for 150 years. He is so caring and protecting.Suze is also great. I like her character she is strong and wants to do things her way but she always puts herself in danger and Jesse ends up saving her. Bottom line is that i will definately end up rereading it.

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Jan 19, 2011 Kimberly rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 52-books-in-52-weeks-2011

i enjoyed these two books (the titles are different because i bought this series in the UK)
i liked meg cabot's princess diaries series and though i have tried her adult books, i have to say i enjoy her YA books more. (perhaps because her female characters in her adult books closely resemble whiny teenage girls- a little grating for me) but in the YA category, her novels are fun, funny and easy to read.
while i am not as into them as her princess diaries series, it's still a quick fun read, 200 p...more

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Aug 31, 2011 Jessica rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: chick-lit, supernatural, young-adult, series, 2011, multiple-books-in-one

I don't like this series as much as I liked (loved) the Vanished series. That being said, Suze is a really great protagonist, and you can feel the worry piling up when she has to come up with excuses for her bizarre behaviour (which really can only be explained by saying she's a mediator). Jesse's also great, and makes me wish I had a Jesse of my very own (alive, of course).

Meg Cabot does a phenomenal job of writing about the supernatural, while keeping both feet firmly planted in the "real worl...more

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Mar 26, 2011 Nikki rated it 5 of 5 stars

Susanna is one of my favourite female characters, if not my number one favourite character. I always enjoy books more when the female roles are badass and strong willed (I have some feminist traits) and Susanna is definatley both of these. It even had the whole forbidden love thing going on which is always a bonus.
And even though I've never been much of a Meg Cabot fan, I absolutley adore these two stories.

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May 13, 2012 May Jaru rated it 5 of 5 stars

This book is the first book and second book of the Mediator Series! I love this book because the plot is good and it really appeals to teenage girls since there is a mix of romance, mystery and ghost. I read it many times and I'm never bored by it.
Suze Simon can see dead people and she helps them make their way to the underworld. Only a few people can do so and they're called mediators. When Suze moved to California, she was hoping to escape from the ghosts and take a little break when there's...more

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Feb 13, 2013 Hannah Kent rated it 3 of 5 stars

Love you to Death and High Stakes, a two part 200 page novel by Meg Cabot, was a book set that I very much enjoyed. Like many other of Meg Cabot’s books, I enjoyed this one very much. Her strong development of characters is elemental to the appeal of the novel. She tackles subjects, whom many other authors would give negative connotations to, and gives them positive light. For example, this book is about a girl who can speak to the dead, but instead of that being a bad thing, she turns it into a...more

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Mar 31, 2013 Karen rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Another good YA duo. Shadowland introduces us to Suze, the mediator, headed to a new school, in a new place, with her mom and new step-dad and step-brothers. Ninth Key continues the story, both taking place over the course of just a few weeks. I'll be reading more Meg Cabot soon.

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Mar 31, 2013 Caisee rated it 4 of 5 stars

There's a guy in Suze's bedroom. Too bad he's a ghost.

Suze is a mediator and she sees dead people.
And they won't leave her alone until she helps them resolve their unfinished business with the living.
But Jesse, the ghost haunting her bedroom, doesn't seem to need her help.
Which is a relief, because Suze has just moved to sunny California and plans to start fresh, with trips to the mall instead of the cemetery, and surfing instead of spectral visitations.
But the very first day at her new scho...more

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Dec 15, 2011 Katherine rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: books-i-own, christmas-2011, favourites, books-in-a-series, finished-series, surprisingly-good, paranormal, ghost

I actually reelly enjoyd this. Though i think the first one was better than the second. I liked most of the characters (apart from Tad :P) Jesse was awesome... I love how Suze is really tough and sarcastic all the time too. I am defnitaly reading the next book!

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Nov 13, 2010 laurie rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: anyone who liked dark visions by L.J.Smith

Recommended to laurie by: my mum

Shelves: middle-class-books

in the first story 'love you to death' Meg Cabot introduces the main character,Susannah Simon, really well. all the books, from what i can tell, are going to be exciting and adventurous. the story is made even better because they are all written from Suze's point of view.

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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.

Series:
* Airhead
* The Princess Diaries
* Mediator
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