Title: Remembrance (The Mediator #7!)
Author: Meg Cabot
Expected publication:
February 2nd 2016 by William Morrow
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So I realize you and I don’t know each other, that’s why it’s hard to
explain how in love with The Mediator series I am, because if you have met me
it would be so obvious. Probably every person I know knows that I love books,
and pretty much everyone knows that The Mediator is my numero uno. It’s the
series that got me hooked on Young Adult. It’s how I discovered God’s gift to
YA, Meg Cabot. I have pretty much memorized each book on the series thanks to
the number of times I have re-read the books in the last decade.
This is my obsession.
And I knew that Meg had plans to write another Mediator book for a long
looong time. I have been waiting anxiously to revisit my favorite cast of
characters and the gorgeous setting they live in. And it’s finally time.
When I started reading I decided I was going to write from the point of
view of someone that is not familiar with the story. Just to see how I would
enjoy it. But that thought flew out the window with the first sentence I read.
I was transported to the golden days of my youth when the feeling of bliss reading
gave me was nearly too much for my sanity. I swear it was so good.
Suze’s voice is still so inherent Suze, so familiar and true, that I
can’t help but wonder if Meg even realizes it’s been nearly a decade since the
last book. It was a big part of why reading Remembrance was so magical.
But then of course Meg seemed to have read my thoughts exactly. I wrote
this pre-review on goodreads almost two years ago, when she said she started
writing the novel, and every question I had, every thought, was answered to my
highest expectations.
It’s not every day you get a wish come true, that’s why I was thankful
to have this novel, even if it sucked. It didn’t. It was perfect. It was the
same Suze that I have loved forever. The same Ackerman family, that has grown
to be the best adoptive family in the world, I was so happy to see Suze’s
stepbrothers had turned into brilliant men that I might have shed a tear of
two. I knew Jake and Dave had it in them, but even Brad? I won the lottery. And
CeeCee and Adam? The same loving, supporting friends. Father Dominic? AMAZING.
Paul? He’s still a jerk but still I was infinitely happy to see him! He’s sort
of the comic relief too, and I’ve always felt bad for him as a teenager. Now he’s
an adult so it made it harder to sympathize with him, though I could never hate
him.
Even the ghost busting was turned to the next level. The stories were
harder and sadder. The villains ages above the crimes everyone in the previous
books ever committed. Which made it easy for me to invest myself in the mystery
and not only in the excitement of seeing my old pals.
But that doesn’t mean I didn’t focus a whole chunk of my brain on them.
Namely Jesse. Jesse who has been my boyfriend for longer than half my life.
Jesse who loves kids and medicine as much as I do. Jesse who speaks softly in Spanish.
Jesse who makes every other guy on earth pale in comparison. He was exactly the
perfect guy he has been for almost two centuries. I can’t even keep on writing
because I’d cry and my mom is watching because I’m supposed to be happy right
now (I’m writing this review as everyone else is celebrating that the new year
is coming in just a few hours).
So anyway, you see why I am biased and would never write a perfectly
coherent review for this book. But what I hope I transferred to you is this… Is
not for nothing I have kept this series by my side for such a long time. It’s
full of everything that makes Young Adult great. It’s a classic. It’s something
you can’t miss.
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