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Title: Reunion by Jenny Carroll ISBN: 0-671-78812-4 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 01 July, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (24 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Not at all the best in series....
Comment: I have to say I read the first two within three days and read the third after. I was dissapointed incrediably with this book. This is my least favorite out of all the books in the series. I still think you need to read it just so you can understand some of the parts in the next two books. I just found this book to be boring---it was nothing like the first two at all. No action, no twists...it just fell flat...but it shouldn't stop you from reading the first,2nd,4th,fifth in the series! I gave it a three just because it's part of a great series.
Rating: 2
Summary: A Little Shaky and Predictable.
Comment: "Reunion" is the third book in the Mediator series by Jenny Carroll, centering around a young woman named Susannah 'Suze' Simon, who is a Mediator: someone who guides unquiet spirits to their eternal rest (whether they like it or not!) Having recently moved from New York to California to live with her mum's new husband, Suze has had to learn to cope with a new Catholic school and putting up with three new stepbrothers as well as the supernatural antics of the ghosts she has to control.
The only people who know her secrets are the kindly Principal Father Dominic and her best friend Gina from New York, who is present throughout this book, and of course Jesse, the incredibly gorgeous ghost that inhabits her room, that Suze has a mighty big crush on. For the moment however, she's happy to hang out with Gina on the beach and enjoy her company whilst it lasts. But that all changes when she spots the four spirits of teenagers that were killed in a car accident on the night of their school prom, who seem eagar to dish out revenge on who they belief was responsible for their deaths: Michal Meducci. This somewhat geeky (but as it turns out, very cute) young man seems to be very accident prone, whether it's giant puppets falling on him at the mall or jellyfish strangling him in the ocean. But Suze knows the truth: the ghosts are out to avenge their deaths, and its up to her to stop them.
The core of all of these books is the character of Suze, whom you can't help but like. With her in-your-face attitude concerning the often-violent spirits she comes across, and in the snappy first-person text that Carroll uses to narrate her own stories, she keeps the story bounding along nicely. And in this case, her voice is needed in order to smooth out an otherwise shaky storyline. There are plot holes galore if you look hard enough (if the car was rammed over the cliff surely the police would have noticed a damaged back-fender) and some rather odd statements that seem to have no place within the context of this kind of story, such as Suze commenting on the traditional covering of Catholic images with black cloth before Easter: "Religion. That is some wacky stuff I tell you," and on a school assignment concerning the arms race: "We *should* care. Because as the charts Kelly's group was holding up revealed, there were some countries who had way more bombs and stuff than we did." Maybe I'm over-reacting, but a teenage thriller-ghost story doesn't really seem the appropriate place to flaunt one's religious and political ideas, especially when both of them are somewhat offensive.
Likewise, the story is hopelessly predictable - as in the previous books a murder takes place that Suze must investigate, which leads her into the clutches of the murderer, who is obvious from the word go due to his/her good looks and insane personality. Ah well, it kept me entertained for three hours, and Suze is definitely quite a character. Her role as Mediator (sort of a blend between Ghostbuster and Vampire Slayer) needs some more meat to it - such as how many are there? Is there an organisation of them? Who/what chooses them? - and then this series could really take off.
And could someone please explain why it's called "Reunion"? No one got reunited so far as I could see!
Rating: 4
Summary: Reunion
Comment: Suze's best friend, Gina, is visiting her for a few weeks. Suze would be thrilled but a pack of teenage ghosts are trying to kill the school geek, Michael. Things get even more complicated when Michael develops a crush on Suze.
There's not much I can say about this book that I didn't say about the first two. The series seems to have settled into a pattern of murder mysteries revolving around Suze's latest love interest. That isn't necessarily a bad thing though and the book was still a fun read. I will certainly continue to read this series with enthusiasm.
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Title: Haunted : A Tale of the Mediator by Meg Cabot ISBN: 006029471X Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 21 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: When Lightning Strikes by Jenny Carroll ISBN: 0743411390 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 27 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Safe House by Jenny Carroll ISBN: 0743411412 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Sanctuary by Jenny Carroll ISBN: 0743411420 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Code Name Cassandra by Jenny Carroll ISBN: 0743411404 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 28 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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