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The Mediator #1-4
The Mediator Bind-Up Collection
The Mediator Series Volume 1: Shadowland Volume 2: Ninth Key Volume 3: Reunion Volume 4: Darkest Hour
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Meg Cabot
274Ìýbooks35.1kÌýfollowersLibrarian 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.
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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.
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February 17, 2021
Thanks Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ for recommending The Mediator to me. I've already read the series. It was on the required reading list for edgy teenage girls.
No, I will not be reading it again because, if it's anything like Twilight, it won't have stood the test of time. In fact, re-reading the Wikipedia summary and vaguely recollecting the plot for Airhead (another Cabot series I really enjoyed at that age), I can almost certainly say that with certainty...
...Am I still kind of tempted to re-read this series though? Maybe...
No, I will not be reading it again because, if it's anything like Twilight, it won't have stood the test of time. In fact, re-reading the Wikipedia summary and vaguely recollecting the plot for Airhead (another Cabot series I really enjoyed at that age), I can almost certainly say that with certainty...
...Am I still kind of tempted to re-read this series though? Maybe...
April 1, 2014
I love these books. The characters are interesting and intriguing. A series well worth reading with lots of laughs, suspense and drama. The love story is beautiful and irresistible.
January 29, 2020
First book series I ever followed! Takes me WAY back!
July 10, 2019
was my first book
October 4, 2019
1. Shadowland
Read May 3 - May 4, 2016
2. Ninth Key
Read May 4, 2016
3. Reunion
Read May - May 5, 2016
4. Darkest Hour
Read May 5 - May 6, 2016
5. Haunted
Read May 10 - May 11, 2016
6. The Twilight
Read June 8 - June 9, 2016
{really wish there was a box set option for the entire series!}
These are the ongoing adventures of Suze (Susannah), a transplanted New York teenager who has moved to Carmel-by-the-Sea to live with her newly remarried mom and her new stepfather and and 3 stepbrothers -- Sleepy, Dopey, and Doc. This is not the biggest struggle in her life, though.
Suze is a mediator -- she helps stranded ghosts with their unfinished business and move on -- through some unorthodox methods. Although she keeps this a secret from her entire family, but finds an unexpected mentor and fellow mediator in her principal, Father Dom. She also acquires a new roommate and friend, Jesse, who is a ghostly inhabitant of her family's renovated home which is the oldest house in the neighborhood and which used to be a boardinghouse in the 1800's.
These are incredibly quick reads -- great for a lazy afternoon -- Suze narrates these stories in a a fun, snarky New Yorker-in-California way.
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Remembrance (The Mediator, #7)
Read 2017 (?)
Suze is a college graduate (although you would never know it) and working as a counselor at her former school ...
Read May 3 - May 4, 2016
2. Ninth Key
Read May 4, 2016
3. Reunion
Read May - May 5, 2016
4. Darkest Hour
Read May 5 - May 6, 2016
5. Haunted
Read May 10 - May 11, 2016
6. The Twilight
Read June 8 - June 9, 2016
{really wish there was a box set option for the entire series!}
These are the ongoing adventures of Suze (Susannah), a transplanted New York teenager who has moved to Carmel-by-the-Sea to live with her newly remarried mom and her new stepfather and and 3 stepbrothers -- Sleepy, Dopey, and Doc. This is not the biggest struggle in her life, though.
Suze is a mediator -- she helps stranded ghosts with their unfinished business and move on -- through some unorthodox methods. Although she keeps this a secret from her entire family, but finds an unexpected mentor and fellow mediator in her principal, Father Dom. She also acquires a new roommate and friend, Jesse, who is a ghostly inhabitant of her family's renovated home which is the oldest house in the neighborhood and which used to be a boardinghouse in the 1800's.
These are incredibly quick reads -- great for a lazy afternoon -- Suze narrates these stories in a a fun, snarky New Yorker-in-California way.
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Remembrance (The Mediator, #7)
Read 2017 (?)
Suze is a college graduate (although you would never know it) and working as a counselor at her former school ...
Read
May 17, 2016GIRLS SEES GHOSTS, HAS CRUSH ON ONE, GHOST IS A TOTAL FOX
IAWTTOTAL FOX :9
THE MEDIATOR SERIES WAS GRATE FOR A TEENIE GHOST LOLMANCE.
THAT WAS THE ONE I READ! I ALMOST RAGEQUIT WHEN IT SEEMED LIKE THE GHOST DUDE HAD DIED FOR GOOD. BUT THEN HE WAS ALIVE AGAIN AND THEY KISSED.
DID THEY EVER END UP TOGETHER?
SUZE AND JESSE? Y.
:o I USED TO SHIP THE OTP SO MUCH.
LOL WE ALL KNOW IT ENDED AFTER THEY BANGED AND MAGICALLY BROUGHT HIM BACK TO LIFE.
ARE THERE ANY GOOD BOOKS WITH GHOST/HUMAN ROMANCE WHERE THE GHOST TURNS OUT NOT TO ACTUALLY BE DEAD IN THE END BUT JUST ALIVE, IN A COMA, AND PROJECTING THEIR SPIRIT OR SOME OTHER HANDWAVEY BULLSHIT THAT GIVES THEM A HAPPY ENDING TOGETHER?
IL'D THE MEDIATOR SERIES.
IAWTTOTAL FOX :9
THE MEDIATOR SERIES WAS GRATE FOR A TEENIE GHOST LOLMANCE.
THAT WAS THE ONE I READ! I ALMOST RAGEQUIT WHEN IT SEEMED LIKE THE GHOST DUDE HAD DIED FOR GOOD. BUT THEN HE WAS ALIVE AGAIN AND THEY KISSED.
DID THEY EVER END UP TOGETHER?
SUZE AND JESSE? Y.
:o I USED TO SHIP THE OTP SO MUCH.
LOL WE ALL KNOW IT ENDED AFTER THEY BANGED AND MAGICALLY BROUGHT HIM BACK TO LIFE.
ARE THERE ANY GOOD BOOKS WITH GHOST/HUMAN ROMANCE WHERE THE GHOST TURNS OUT NOT TO ACTUALLY BE DEAD IN THE END BUT JUST ALIVE, IN A COMA, AND PROJECTING THEIR SPIRIT OR SOME OTHER HANDWAVEY BULLSHIT THAT GIVES THEM A HAPPY ENDING TOGETHER?
IL'D THE MEDIATOR SERIES.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 25, 2012
The entire Mediator series is just so absolutely wonderful. Established long before the terrible YA fantasy that we're dealing with today Suze and Jesse are the real deal...or as real as they can get. The family issues open your heart, the mysteries open your mind, and the romance with open your mouth is aww and hope.
November 13, 2015
I didn't think Meg Cabot could get any better, but that was before I read the Mediator series.
Susannah Simon has a special ability - she can see and talk to ghosts and it is her job to send ghosts to the after life (after death?).
Beautifully written with an amazing story line - this book was nothing short of amazing. I read the whole series in one go.
Susannah Simon has a special ability - she can see and talk to ghosts and it is her job to send ghosts to the after life (after death?).
Beautifully written with an amazing story line - this book was nothing short of amazing. I read the whole series in one go.
March 26, 2013
Meg Cabot is one of my favourite authors!! This is my favourite series of hers!! The storyline and characters are amazing!! I love how each book has its own drama to handle but also the growing relationship between Suze and Jesse throughout the series!!
February 12, 2018
THIS SERIES WAS MY EARLY TEENAGERHOOD IF THATS EVEN A THING. I’m so glad I randomly decided to pick it up from the school library back in year 9. Jesse DeSilver was my very first bookish boyfriend. I was...quite obsessed.
July 26, 2011
my cousin told me to read it so i said why not and i thought it was very good, you never knew what would happen next, it was very interesting.
November 13, 2011
Gah loved this series so much, Jesse made the book for me, such a gentleman. I loved Suzie's personality and attitude some of her parts where hilarious. Awesome series!
May 9, 2013
Not upto the expected standard..
May 13, 2013
wow this series was honestly filled with everything comedy drama supernatural all of it .. loved Jesse and at first I couldn't understand how she could be with a ghost but the ending was amazing
September 4, 2013
Fun series. It was a VERY quick read, so I can't really give the books more stars. But I enjoyed reading them.
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February 10, 2015tooo goood
very romantic
interesting.......
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very romantic
interesting.......
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August 15, 2017
Loved it. Read it.
February 25, 2018
I really enjoyed this series growing up; one of my favorites. Meg Cabot steps a bit into ghost stories and it works.
March 10, 2019
I was obsessed with this series as an early teen. Loved every second of it.
March 20, 2019
One of my favorite series. I read it as a teen and loved it. It was one of those series I re-read a lot. Has a great mix of action and comedy.
May 27, 2013
It's Meg Cabot! I'll read anything she writes. These were a good series of book, cliched but good!
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