The Mediator series by Meg Cabot is an excellent mystery series for those of us who love a little element of the supernatural in their books. My first thought was to comare this series to the Twilight series because a normal girl falls in love with a dead boy. But I don't think that comparison would hold up with too much analysis. The main character, Suze, is a much stronger female character, with not nearly so much simpering and sighing as Bella seemed to give off. And, of course, Suze could see ghosts while Bella was completely normal. Still, I think that this series is almost as strong in my mind as that ever-infamous vampire romance that we have all come to know and love.
The first book in the series is The Mediator: Shadowland. This is where we get introduced to Suze, a typical high school girl who just happens to have this special gift/talent for seeing ghosts and helping them move on to their next destination. Think Jennifer Love Hewitt in the television show Ghost Whisperer. Anyway, Suze is moving from New York to a small town in California because her mom has gotten remarried. For the first time in her life she meets another mediator, anothe person that can see the dead: Father Dominic. And she also happens to have this really cute ghost from about 100 years ago who lives in her bedroom. Needless to say, her life is changing.
Each of the 6 books in the series have Suze trying to "mediate" ghosts who are becoming increasingly more violent. Each book features a different ghost, in a different situation, but since Suze has moved to this new town, it seems as if all of the ghosts she encounters are of the violent variety. Except, of course, for the very cute ghost who just happens to share a room with her. Suze must kick quite a bit of ghost butt to try to get these supernatural beings to go on to wherever it is they go when they move on from this life. The butt-kicking variety of mediating doesn't sit well with Father Dom, though, and Suze does try to maintain a more peaceful style of mediation, but that just doesn't seem to be her style. The scrapes she gets herself into are very interesting to read about.
Overall, I give this series a two-thumbs-up and I recommend that you read it as soon as you can get your hands on it. By the way - a digital copy is available for checkout from the Tennessee Regional E-book and Audio Downloading System at http://reads.lib.overdrive.com/.
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