Shadowland

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Summary: The Mediator #1: The Mediator
Review: This was a thrilling and humorous yet scary first book of THE MEDIATOR series, and the author Jenny Carroll writes with a very intriguing expression. Suzannah was born a Mediator, a person who can see and talk to ghosts -- and using this power , she must help ghosts to the place they're supposed to go when they die. But she has never considered this power a gift. She thinks it's a horrible curse she has to live with forever. But her life , weird as it is, is about to change. Now that she's moved with her mom to Northern California to live with her new stepdad and her annoying stepbrothers, Suzannah will face danger greater then she knew. Besides for the ghost Jesse that won't leave her room, there's an angry ghost at her new school -- Heather -- and she's not to happy about her death. She wants revenge, and she is so powerful Suzannah knows Heather will prevail. Somehow Suzannah needs to stop Heather. But that would take more then an ordinary human, wouldn't it? This was an excellent and frightening read and I can't wait to read the rest of THE MEDIATOR series by Jenny Carroll.

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Summary: I liked this book
Review: Thsi is the first book in the Mediator series. I liked it a lot more than I liked "Haunted" by Meg Cabot, who is also the author of this book. (Under a fake name, Jenny Carroll.) In this book, you meet Suze, or Susannah Simon, as she leaves everything behind in New York City to head out to sunny Carmel by the Sea, California. When she moves into her new house, she meets Jesse, a guy ghost from 1850 who is living in her room. Suze can't seem to get him to leave. But Jesse becomes the least of her worries when she meets an angry ghost at ther school, the ghost of a popular cheerleader who committed suicide when her boyfriend dumped her. Suze is determined to save Bryce, the object of the girl's rage. The girl ghost, however, gets even meaner and almost kills the school principal and makes threats against Suze's stepbrother. Will Suze defeat the angry girl ghost? I liked this book a lot. I didn't think I would because I was disappointed with Haunted: A Tale of the Mediator written by the same author. I recommend this read.

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Summary: The Best of the Beginning
Review: Well Done Jenny! The best beginning of a wonderful series. The action, the romance! How can we take it all?! Jessi, come here you ...beast! He is an amazing character, bringing the past into the future in an ingenious storyline. Suze is a real person, not as fictitious as the rest of the world, and not as ignorant eather! This book is so a must read!!(Excuse the corny phrase)There is something out there, something that lives amongst us that we are too ignorant to recognise. It's about time we find out who we walk amongst. (",)

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Summary: A Book Worth Reading
Review: You know those books that you just have to read and can't put it down until two o'clock in the morning when you're finally finished and just can't wait to read the next one in the series? Well, Shadowland is one of them. In this book, you will meet Susannah Simon, sixteen, who is, oh, just an ordinary girl...with one slight twist. Susannah is a mediator, a person who can speak with the dead, but mainly just with the unhappy ghosts, who died with unfinished business they hadn't gotten to take care of. First, she is forced to leave good ol' NYC to Carmel, CA, where she is forced again to share a bedroom with a ghost who died 150 years ago, and who also happens to be a guy (good thing her parents don't know).
When she starts at her new school, she meets Heather, a suicidal maniac, who died over the Christmas break. Heather is furious at Susannah because Susannah just happens to be taking Heather's old locker, 'stealing' Heather's best friend and boyfriend. Heather will do anything to kill Bryce, her ex-boyfriend whom Susannah is 'stealing' away from her, and bring him down with her the land of the dead and no matter how much Susannah explains to Heather that she can't do that, it's no use.
What happens? Well, you'll just have to read the book to find out. It's definitely a book worth reading. Trust me, it is. I mean, if I, Lavender Skye, read it, then surely EVERYBODY would want to read it...right?