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Macmillan Children's Books (2004), 224 pages
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Everything is going great for Suze. Her new life in California is a whirlwind of parties and excellent hair days. Tad Beaumont, the hottest boy in town, has even asked Suze out on her very first date. Suze is so excited that she's willing to ignore her misgivings about Tad-particularly the fact that he's not Jesse, whose ghostly status-not to mention apparent disinterest in her-make him unattainable. What Suze can't ignore, however, is the ghost of a murdered woman whose death seems directly connected to dark secrets hidden in none other than Tad Beaumont's past.
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LibraryThing member kikianika
I adored the first book in the series, and the second one was just as much fun. I read it in two sessions ina single day. it's fast, fun, light and fluffy. The perfect book in 40'C (100'+F) weather.
LibraryThing member kikilon
I adored the first book in the series, and the second one was just as much fun. I read it in two sessions ina single day. it's fast, fun, light and fluffy. The perfect book in 40'C (100'+F) weather.
LibraryThing member Darrol
I almost wished that the vampire angle had turned out to be "true".
LibraryThing member la_librarian
I really like Susannah's character because she kind of sassy and a "kick butt" kind of girl. She's got a really strong personality but it has many of the issues that a teen girl faces...being embarrassed...wanting a boyfriend, and all that.
All in all, this is turning out to be a solid series in the
All in all, this is turning out to be a solid series in the
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genre of urban fantasy and I highly recommend. Show Less
LibraryThing member 4sarad
This book is almost as good as the first in the series. There's a good deal of action and a lot of funny lines. It definitely makes you want to read more. I just want Jesse and Suze to kiss already!
LibraryThing member tjsjohanna
Another enjoyable installment in the Mediator series. I liked that this book basically took up days (or maybe a week) later than the first book. There is a twist in this book, which I found surprising but novel. I also like that even though Suze has been doing this her whole life, I am getting the
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feeling that she is learning new things about her gift and that her character is going to be growing. Maybe not, though! Show Less
LibraryThing member Jenson_AKA_DL
Suze Simon has a major problem. The problem isn't that she can talk to ghosts or that a super-cute ghost is living in her room or even that she is being made to live across the country from her native New York along with THREE stepbrothers. Her biggest problem is that she is sweet 16 and never been
It has been a while since I first read Meg Cabot's Mediator books and I've been curious if they would stand the re-reading test and be as good now as I remember. I can certainly say I still love it! Suze's sarcastic, if slightly self-important, views on life made me giggle all the way through the story. This particular volume has a couple of my favorite scenes to grace the whole series, most specifically we get to see Suze's first kiss (LOL!) and the climactic scene at the end, despite all the fried fish. Also, I have to mention Jesse, who is the number one choice for my favorite hero in any book series, young adult, adult or otherwise.
Now that I've given into the temptation of re-reading this one, I guess I'll have to continue on and do the whole series over. They're just that good!
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kissed, nor ever even had a boy interested in her. It's not that she's ugly (she's not), or stupid (Suze is quite witty if she does say so herself.) It's that no one can quite get past the fact that Suze seems as likely to smack you around as give you a hug. Maybe she should consider a change in 'tude? Then again, considering her mediator duties and all the ghost-busting she's had to do since arriving in California, it could be that the attitude is all that stands between staying alive or joining her unwelcome charges.It has been a while since I first read Meg Cabot's Mediator books and I've been curious if they would stand the re-reading test and be as good now as I remember. I can certainly say I still love it! Suze's sarcastic, if slightly self-important, views on life made me giggle all the way through the story. This particular volume has a couple of my favorite scenes to grace the whole series, most specifically we get to see Suze's first kiss (LOL!) and the climactic scene at the end, despite all the fried fish. Also, I have to mention Jesse, who is the number one choice for my favorite hero in any book series, young adult, adult or otherwise.
Now that I've given into the temptation of re-reading this one, I guess I'll have to continue on and do the whole series over. They're just that good!
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LibraryThing member lrobe190
Sixteen year old Suze Simon is a Mediator...she can see and talk to ghosts. It is her job to resolve the problem that is keeping them here one earth. The ghost of a dead woman has been visiting her at night screaming at her to "tell Red he didn't kill me!" Suze believes that "Red" is a local
I've been listening to the Mediator series on CD and thoroughy enjoying it. Somehow, the audio version makes the story come alive. The reader, Johanna Parker, has the voice of a 16 year old girl down pat and fully inserts the humorous voice of a typical Meg Cabot character.
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developer. but when she goes to deliver the message, she gets involved in some very strange events, including nearly getting herself killed.I've been listening to the Mediator series on CD and thoroughy enjoying it. Somehow, the audio version makes the story come alive. The reader, Johanna Parker, has the voice of a 16 year old girl down pat and fully inserts the humorous voice of a typical Meg Cabot character.
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LibraryThing member JRlibrary
This is book two in the Mediator series, and I thought I had more of the series, but I guess I don't. I think girls will really like it since there seems to be a little bit of everything; suspense, mystery, romance...
I keep thinking she's going to end up with Jesse and then nothing happens...
I'll
I keep thinking she's going to end up with Jesse and then nothing happens...
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definitely be buying book three sometime soon. Show Less
LibraryThing member midnighttwilight101
The Mediator Series by Meg Cabot is about a girl that can see ghosts. This becomes a little tricky when she moves from New York to California only to find a gorgeous ghost is already living in her bedroom. Not only does Suze have to deal with Jesse there is another ghost trying to kill people at
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her school. I loved these books, Suze was so down to earth and Jesse was so crushable. Show Less
LibraryThing member willowwaw
Very fun book! I loved it from page one to the end. A quick fast read! Awesome! Recommend to teens!
LibraryThing member TheLibraryhag
Life is good for Suze in her new home in California. She is making friends, tolerating her step brothers, and best of all is asked out by Tad Beaumont. So her pesky Mediator duties don't seem so bad until the ghost of a murdered woman starts screaming next to Suze's bed each night. So Suze needs to
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track down a murderer and the trail looks like it is leading straight to Tad's door. Show Less
LibraryThing member princess-starr
In a lot of longer series, I tend to look at some books as filler. This is one of them. A lot of Ninth Key revolves around Suze settling into her role at Carmel and how her relationship with Jesse is progressing. (I did like that her dad’s ghost pops in and promptly chews Jesse out for living
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with his daughter.) But it’s a good filler book for setting up and expanding on these relationships. I like that Suze realizes her crush is impossible and tries to go for living boys; I like how CeeCee and Adam kinda graduated into her right-hand companions/researchers; I like how you see how much harder it is to be a mediator in her new circumstances. The vampire plot that drives the book gets a little silly, and I reacted similarly to Suze whenever Father Dominic first brings up the possibility. But I do enjoy it, and I liked how the whole thing resolves. Show Less
LibraryThing member akmargie
Second verse same as the first...it's like an episode of a soap opera, you want to say no but you have to know what happens next. Clever Cabot.
LibraryThing member whybehave2002
I liked it. I would read more of the series. A light mystery.
LibraryThing member wealhtheowwylfing
The second book in the Mediator series is as frothy, fun, and wholesome as the first. And by wholesome I don't mean that Suze, who can communicate with the dead, is a "family values" prig--rather, I mean she's forthright, smart, a good friend and has no shame about her own desires. It's YA, and I
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really hope a lot of teenagers read it. Show Less
LibraryThing member mrsdanaalbasha
Suze’s new life in California is looking up. Cool friends, pool parties, good-hair days, and her male room-mate, Jesse, who happens to be a nineteenth-century hottie. But when a screaming, ghostly woman wakes Suze up in the middle of the night, insisting that Suze find someone named Red and tell
Suze tries and fails to get in contact with Mr. Beaumont. While scheming over how she might get a conversation with him, she encounters the spirit of a young boy named Timothy, come back because his parents abandoned his cat, Spike. Suze promises to find the animal and get him a good home.
With the pretense that she is there as a reporter for the school paper, Suze goes to Mr. Beaumont's impressive mansion and gets a meeting. In his office, she gets right to the point and delivers the ghost's message. Mr. Beaumont doesn't have the reaction Suze expected, seeming only amused that he wasn't actually the cause of the woman's death. Feeling disconcerted, Suze tries to leave, only to find that the elevator won't open and the windows are barred with heavy shutters.
Just as Suze is beginning to become nervous, Mr. Beaumont's brother Magnus arrives and escorts her out, looking anxiously at her throat and asking if Mr. Beaumont harmed her. On the way out of the mansion, they encounter Tad, Mr. Beaumont's son. Recognizing her from a party they both attended, Tad offers to give Suze a ride home.
When Susannah explains what happened to Father Dom, her principle and fellow mediator, he thinks that the strangeness of Mr. Beaumont's behavior could be due to vampirism. Suze thinks he's being too superstitious, but he says that since ghosts and mediators exist, then why not vampires?
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him he didn't kill her, Suze is none too happy, especially when the ghost disappears before she can get more information. Nonetheless, she asks around to see if anyone knows who this Red person might be and is informed that a local businessman called Thaddeus Beaumont goes by that name.Suze tries and fails to get in contact with Mr. Beaumont. While scheming over how she might get a conversation with him, she encounters the spirit of a young boy named Timothy, come back because his parents abandoned his cat, Spike. Suze promises to find the animal and get him a good home.
With the pretense that she is there as a reporter for the school paper, Suze goes to Mr. Beaumont's impressive mansion and gets a meeting. In his office, she gets right to the point and delivers the ghost's message. Mr. Beaumont doesn't have the reaction Suze expected, seeming only amused that he wasn't actually the cause of the woman's death. Feeling disconcerted, Suze tries to leave, only to find that the elevator won't open and the windows are barred with heavy shutters.
Just as Suze is beginning to become nervous, Mr. Beaumont's brother Magnus arrives and escorts her out, looking anxiously at her throat and asking if Mr. Beaumont harmed her. On the way out of the mansion, they encounter Tad, Mr. Beaumont's son. Recognizing her from a party they both attended, Tad offers to give Suze a ride home.
When Susannah explains what happened to Father Dom, her principle and fellow mediator, he thinks that the strangeness of Mr. Beaumont's behavior could be due to vampirism. Suze thinks he's being too superstitious, but he says that since ghosts and mediators exist, then why not vampires?
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LibraryThing member mrsdanaalbasha
Suze 19s new life in California is looking up. Cool friends, pool parties, good-hair days, and her male room-mate, Jesse, who happens to be a nineteenth-century hottie. But when a screaming, ghostly woman wakes Suze up in the middle of the night, insisting that Suze find someone named Red and tell
Suze tries and fails to get in contact with Mr. Beaumont. While scheming over how she might get a conversation with him, she encounters the spirit of a young boy named Timothy, come back because his parents abandoned his cat, Spike. Suze promises to find the animal and get him a good home.
With the pretense that she is there as a reporter for the school paper, Suze goes to Mr. Beaumont's impressive mansion and gets a meeting. In his office, she gets right to the point and delivers the ghost's message. Mr. Beaumont doesn't have the reaction Suze expected, seeming only amused that he wasn't actually the cause of the woman's death. Feeling disconcerted, Suze tries to leave, only to find that the elevator won't open and the windows are barred with heavy shutters.
Just as Suze is beginning to become nervous, Mr. Beaumont's brother Magnus arrives and escorts her out, looking anxiously at her throat and asking if Mr. Beaumont harmed her. On the way out of the mansion, they encounter Tad, Mr. Beaumont's son. Recognizing her from a party they both attended, Tad offers to give Suze a ride home.
When Susannah explains what happened to Father Dom, her principle and fellow mediator, he thinks that the strangeness of Mr. Beaumont's behavior could be due to vampirism. Suze thinks he's being too superstitious, but he says that since ghosts and mediators exist, then why not vampires?
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him he didn't kill her, Suze is none too happy, especially when the ghost disappears before she can get more information. Nonetheless, she asks around to see if anyone knows who this Red person might be and is informed that a local businessman called Thaddeus Beaumont goes by that name.Suze tries and fails to get in contact with Mr. Beaumont. While scheming over how she might get a conversation with him, she encounters the spirit of a young boy named Timothy, come back because his parents abandoned his cat, Spike. Suze promises to find the animal and get him a good home.
With the pretense that she is there as a reporter for the school paper, Suze goes to Mr. Beaumont's impressive mansion and gets a meeting. In his office, she gets right to the point and delivers the ghost's message. Mr. Beaumont doesn't have the reaction Suze expected, seeming only amused that he wasn't actually the cause of the woman's death. Feeling disconcerted, Suze tries to leave, only to find that the elevator won't open and the windows are barred with heavy shutters.
Just as Suze is beginning to become nervous, Mr. Beaumont's brother Magnus arrives and escorts her out, looking anxiously at her throat and asking if Mr. Beaumont harmed her. On the way out of the mansion, they encounter Tad, Mr. Beaumont's son. Recognizing her from a party they both attended, Tad offers to give Suze a ride home.
When Susannah explains what happened to Father Dom, her principle and fellow mediator, he thinks that the strangeness of Mr. Beaumont's behavior could be due to vampirism. Suze thinks he's being too superstitious, but he says that since ghosts and mediators exist, then why not vampires?
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LibraryThing member Bodagirl
Not my favorite in the series, but still entertaining.
PopSugar Reading Challenge 2016 | Task 4: Book you haven't read since high school
(It might have been freshman year of college, but who's counting. Plus I need to refresh my memory to prepare for the 7th book).
PopSugar Reading Challenge 2016 | Task 4: Book you haven't read since high school
(It might have been freshman year of college, but who's counting. Plus I need to refresh my memory to prepare for the 7th book).
LibraryThing member nx74defiant
Suze just want to be a normal teen.
I really enjoyed listening to this. Very cute and funny.
I really enjoyed listening to this. Very cute and funny.
LibraryThing member A_Reader_of_Fictions
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Actual rating: 3.5 stars
Rereading old favorites is interesting. The Mediator series was one of my favorite things ever, but it’s shocking how little I actually remembered about the books. Reading them through a blogger lens
Suze is amazing, and I love her, but I also want to see her grow. She doesn’t really do that in Ninth Key at all. She runs around to solve the absurd mystery du jour, and that’s basically it. Nothing really happens to move the larger plot arc forward. Of course, partially, that’s awesome because the larger plot revolves around Jesse. Cabot wants to give us the slow burn, so she’s filling time.
So Suze gets her first kiss in Ninth Key. I have to say that much as I don’t like Tad (especially since my dad’s name is Tadd – double yuck) that I love the fact that Suze does try out other guys. She’s already got a sizable crush on Jesse, but hello he’s dead. Unlike most paranormal heroines, she’s totally phased by the fact that her dude is not a living human, even if he is gorgeous. Suze is just cool that way, even if she does feel the need to tell me about the guys’ body hair, which no thank you.
Also, the mystery in this one is totes ridic to the max. Like, the whole thing is built around a really stupid misunderstanding where the ghost won’t be specific. So Suze gets involved in this big dramatic murder mystery because reasons, and it’s just all so over the top. That’s part of the charm of the book, too, but it’s just so silly.
I mean, I still loved reading it and flew through it, because Suze is just amazing. However, sadly, what makes Ninth Key notable is mostly the stuff that didn’t work as well as usual. Still, I think three is where the ship starts to board, which means YES.
Actual rating: 3.5 stars
Rereading old favorites is interesting. The Mediator series was one of my favorite things ever, but it’s shocking how little I actually remembered about the books. Reading them through a blogger lens
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definitely casts them in a slightly different light, but they’re still hilarious and fun, even if they’re no longer perfection to me. That said, I’m fairly certain that Ninth Key is the weakest in the series. Fun, but lacking much effect on the larger narrative.Suze is amazing, and I love her, but I also want to see her grow. She doesn’t really do that in Ninth Key at all. She runs around to solve the absurd mystery du jour, and that’s basically it. Nothing really happens to move the larger plot arc forward. Of course, partially, that’s awesome because the larger plot revolves around Jesse. Cabot wants to give us the slow burn, so she’s filling time.
So Suze gets her first kiss in Ninth Key. I have to say that much as I don’t like Tad (especially since my dad’s name is Tadd – double yuck) that I love the fact that Suze does try out other guys. She’s already got a sizable crush on Jesse, but hello he’s dead. Unlike most paranormal heroines, she’s totally phased by the fact that her dude is not a living human, even if he is gorgeous. Suze is just cool that way, even if she does feel the need to tell me about the guys’ body hair, which no thank you.
Also, the mystery in this one is totes ridic to the max. Like, the whole thing is built around a really stupid misunderstanding where the ghost won’t be specific. So Suze gets involved in this big dramatic murder mystery because reasons, and it’s just all so over the top. That’s part of the charm of the book, too, but it’s just so silly.
I mean, I still loved reading it and flew through it, because Suze is just amazing. However, sadly, what makes Ninth Key notable is mostly the stuff that didn’t work as well as usual. Still, I think three is where the ship starts to board, which means YES.
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LibraryThing member tldegray
What would you do when the ghost of a woman shows up in your bedroom and tells you to "tell Red he didn't kill me"? You'd tell him, right? Especially if that was the only way to get her to stop screaming and yelling at you all the time. So Suze asks around to find out if anyone knows "Red" and
Jesse, the ghost who lives in her bedroom, seems jealous over her dating Tad. That's great by Suze because she's falling for him in a big way, even though there's no way they can be together. But Tad's nice, and she gave him poison oak, so she's willing to see if there's something there, even though she's busily trying to figure out if his father murdered a bunch of people or just ate them for a vampiric snack. Red isn't the Red she was looking for so it takes a while for her to deliver the message but when she does it's worth it.
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finds out he's a well-known pillar of the community, one with a very hot son she starts dating. Oh, and Red also might be a vampire because he keeps staring at Suze's neck and his assistant does too when he asks if Red hurt her.Jesse, the ghost who lives in her bedroom, seems jealous over her dating Tad. That's great by Suze because she's falling for him in a big way, even though there's no way they can be together. But Tad's nice, and she gave him poison oak, so she's willing to see if there's something there, even though she's busily trying to figure out if his father murdered a bunch of people or just ate them for a vampiric snack. Red isn't the Red she was looking for so it takes a while for her to deliver the message but when she does it's worth it.
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LibraryThing member mutantpudding
I guess I'm still reading this series? It's junk food but it's still food so
LibraryThing member SandyAMcPherson
Book 2 in the Mediator series was not as well-plotted as the first book, Shadowland. Extravagantly implausible difficulties encountered by the MC (Susannah, a.k.a. as 'Suze') subverted this story for me, but I'm still liking Meg Cabot's writing. Although the pacing seemed rushed in this book
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(compared to Book 1), Cabot's characterizations are fun and in many instances she nails that angst of a 16-year-old girl. An amusing read for teens, especially those navigating the social hierarchy of high school. Show Less
Subjects
Awards
Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers (Selection — 2002)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2001-01-30
Physical description
224 p.; 19.37 inches
ISBN
0291