THE MEDIATOR: TWILIGHT - Meg Cabot, narr Johanna Parker

From the back of the BOCD: Suze Simon finds it difficult to come across as an average teenager when she's constantly visited by ghosts. Suze is a mediator, you see. And her boyfriend Jesse is, well, a ghost himself--from the 19th century!
Fellow mediator Paul Slater has figured out how to travel through time and alter Jesse's future so he and Suze will never meet, leaving Suze in a conundrum. Does she let Paul succeed so Jesse lives an ordinary life in his own time period, leaving Suze with no memory of him? Or does she stop Paul and force Jesse to be a ghost forever? And all the while, Suze must cope with the perils of a normal teenage life.
Number one New York Times best-selling author Meg Cabot delivers a quirky depiction of the normal and exaggerated hazards all teenagers face in this sixth installment of the Mediator series. Young adult listeners will identify with Suze through the exuberant narration of Johanna Parker.
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Poor Suze, she never seems to catch a break. She loves Jesse, her ghost boyfriend, but since he's from the 19th century, he's very proper and she wonders if they will ever get past whatever base is past hot kissing. And there's Paul, the fellow mediator, who Suze is alternately drawn to and repelled by. He's just bad incarnate, using his mediator abilities for his selfish means.
What I like best about this series is how normal Suze is in being a teenager with the added *agh* factor of having ghosts around her all the time. And some of those ghosts aren't very nice. Suze wants to go to the dance, wear cool clothes and be on time for dinner so her stepdad won't get disappointed.
I do enjoy Meg Cabot's ability to write in her various series. I know I would be highly disappointed should I ever find out she has a team of writers as I found other authors do.

Four Please don't let me be disappointed beans.....

DARKEST HOUR: THE MEDIATOR - Meg Cabot, narr Johanna Parker

From the back of the book: When the nineteenth - century ghost of Maria de Silva wakes her up in the middle of the night, Suze knows this is no ordinary visitation--and not just from the knife at her throat either. In life, Maria was the fiancee of Jesse--the same Jesse who was murdered 150 years before. The same Jesse Suze is in love with.

Maria threatens Suze: the backyard construction must cease. Suze has a pretty good what -- or who -- Maria doesn't want found. But in solving Jesse's murder, will Suze end up losing him forever?

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This is the best series! I look forward to each one as they show up in the mail from RecordedBooks. Johanna Parker, who also narrates the Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampire series, is a fab voice for Suze and the other characters in this YA paranormal series. Suze is 16 and can talk to ghosts or rather they demand attention from Suze since she is one of the few mediators out there. They help ghosts get to the other side when they get lost or don't realize they are dead.

Suze loves Jesse, the 150 year old ghost who lives in her bedroom. He was murdered by his fiancee so she could marry another and Jesse has been around ever since. In this fourth book in the series, Maria is back to threaten Suze to stop the digging in the back of Suze's house. Suze's stepfather and stepbrother are working on a deck and hot tub and it might be a bit difficult to get them to stop.

Suze is also having her summer vacation hampered by having to get a job at the resort where another stepbrother works as a lifeguard. Suze is a babysitter to the rich and has her hands full with her current charge, Jack. Jack is sullen and doesn't want to go outside and play. It doesn't help that his parents and older brother don't really want to have much to do with him. Suze takes him under her wing when she finds out he's a budding mediator, too.

So Suze has a summer job, a reluctant mediator in training and a ghost with murder on her mind....this is definitely not the summer Suze had planned.

Five ghostly beans.....