Title: Mean Spirits & Young Blood (The Mediator)
Author: Meg Cabot
Publisher: Macmillan
Page Count: 437
Publication Date: 2010
Synopsis:
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 "Mean
Spirits", Suze is all set to spend a relaxing summer on the beach, until
she runs into the vengeful ghosts of four high-school students. She must use
her mediating skills to guide these ghouls through the afterlife and stop them
wreaking havoc in the present. In "Young Blood", Suze is heartbroken
when gorgeous ghost Jesse doesn't seem to love her back. When his 150-year-old
grave is unearthed in her backyard, she is determined to discover how and why
he died. But one thing's for sure - digging up the past can be a deadly
business…
What I thought:
Well this is in a way the second book whilst also being the
third and fourth. I always enjoy reading about Suze’s crazy ghost adventures
where she has to fight off some supernatural baddies so this was a comfortable
read. By this point I’d realised that in each book she has a new love interest
(that isn’t Jesse) and she ends up either being stalked by him or having to
politely turn him down. At first I had fun trying to guess which one they were
going to be but it soon got quite repetitive and none of them were particularly
likeable which I suppose was the idea and a way of making us like Jesse more.
I like the action scenes much more than when we were just
hearing Suze’s thoughts because as independent Suze is when she isn’t in combat
with a ghost she’s actually quite boring.
Suze makes a few odd decisions in this book. Mostly because this
far into the series we think we can read and predict her actions but then she
does something crazy that likens her to some of the same baddies she’s trying
to rid the world of. Of course not all the ghosts are bad guys but the majority
we meet aren’t that friendly. I enjoyed this book for the most part and I felt
like it was a decent, quick read that would keep you entertained if you’re
looking for something to fill that supernatural void in your life.
Rating: 3/5
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