Courtesy of Teens Read Too
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After moving from her New York home to Carmel, California, Suze's life is finally looking up!
Her days are filled by parties and good hair days - what every teenage girl can relate to wanting. The only thing that Suze wants to change about herself is the fact that she can see ghosts who want to pass messages along to friends or family. She is a mediator.
Even though everything seems to be going her way, Suze has a ghost that seems to be connected to Tad Beaumont, the hottest guy in town, who also happens to have asked her out. Suze just can't understand what Tad and this ghost have to do with each other.
And then she meets Tad's father.
NINTH KEY is the second book in THE MEDIATOR series, following SHADOWLAND, and is a fun addition to your bookshelf. There is a good mix of ghosts, romance, and creepy characters! Another fun Meg Cabot book!
Reviewed by: Taylor Rector
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Ninth Key-Review
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The Ninth Key is about Susannah Simon (Suze), a mediator, as well as a high school sophomore who deals with standard teenage problems. She has lived in California for nearly two weeks and she is already having a great time with her new school, friends, and stepbrothers.
When Suze was trying to sleep a ghost of a dead woman woke her up, screaming and begging Suze to tell "Red" that he isn't responsible for her death. As Suze inquired "Red", she realized that he is the father of Tad Beaumont, the cutest and richest boy in school. Suze's father and Jesse both tell her that "Red" is a vampire and to not mess with Red Beaumont, but young Suze does not listen. As she searches for more information about "Red", someone knows what Suze is trying to do.
One of my favorite scenes was the scene when the whole family was having a conversation during dinner about Dopey and his relation with Debbie Mancuso. My favorite character in this book is Doc, Suze's youngest and smartest stepbrother. Doc has an interesting personality; he is a character who is ingenuous, innocent and naive.
This book was very interesting. Although the first book was more interesting, I still enjoyed it.
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The Best in the Series!
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This is the first book I've never been able to put down. I finished it within about four hours. I've never been more into a book then this one... I can't rave enough about this book. It's my favorite in the series and all I can hope is that you'll read it! I mean if you like mystery,vampires, murders, and yeah some romance...this is the book for you!
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Predictable But Still Funny and Interesting
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Compared to the first book, Suze is actually pitted against a human. It tends to stray from the whole ghost, mediator plot and delves into a bit of mystery and crime story. There are nice moments but this book doesn't live up to the previous. Nothing pivotal happens and it seems like a kinda side story. One that doesn't fit in with the series. However, if you ignore that, you get to learn a bit more about her new family and it is still as funny as the first book. The basic idea of the story is that a woman ghost asks (or rather weeps) for Suze's help. Suze tracks down the person to contact but ends up going into a deeper mystery of murder. Unfortunately, the prime suspect is the father of Tad, the only boy since moving here that has asked her out.
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good, just not as good as the first
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In the second book of The Mediator series, the ghost of a woman asks Suze to find "Red" and tell him her death wasn't his fault. Suze has her work cut out for her when she discovers that "Red" is really eccentric millionaire Thaddeus Beaumont, and all signs point to his being a murder. Suze also has a new love interest, Tad, who just happens to be Mr. Beaumont's son. This book was pretty good but a few things did get on my nerves. Suze's constant complaining that Tad was the only boy to ever ask her out was really annoying because two boys asked her out in the first book. Also, in the beginning, the book kept skipping around in time which was really awkward. Other than those minor complaints I really enjoyed the second book in the series, but not quite as much as the first.
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