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    Proposal: A Mediator Novella
    Proposal: A Mediator Novella
    Proposal: A Mediator Novella
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    Proposal: A Mediator Novella

    Written by Meg Cabot

    Narrated by Johanna Parker

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    The short story Mediator fans everywhere have been waiting years to read… a fun, fast-paced, never-before-read scene in which Suze Simon agrees to marry her no-longer-dead ghost boyfriend, Jesse de Silva!

    The last place Suze Simon expects to find herself during Valentine’s Day is a cemetery. But that’s what happens when you’re a mediator—cursed with the “gift” of communicating with the dead.

    That’s how Suze has ended up at the graves of a pair of tragic young lovers. They’re NCDPs—Non-Compliant Deceased Persons—whose drama didn’t end with death. It’s Suze’s job to make sure they move on—for good.

    But the NCDPs aren’t the only ones with problems. The reason Suze is spending her Valentine’s Day with the undead instead of her boyfriend, Jesse, is because he’s having so much trouble adjusting to life after death . . . not surprising, considering the fact that he used to be an NCDP himself, and now his girlfriend busts his former kind for a living.

    Can Suze use her mediating skills to propose a mutual resolution, and bring all these young lovers together, especially on the night Saint Valentine declared sacred to romance? Or will she end up alone—and possibly undead—herself?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateFeb 2, 2016
    ISBN9780062476395
    Author

    Meg Cabot

    MEG CABOT’s many books for both adults and teens have included numerous #1 New York Times bestsellers, with more than twenty-five million copies sold worldwide. Her Princess Diaries series was made into two hit films by Disney, with a third movie coming soon. Meg currently lives in Key West, Florida, with her husband and various cats.

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    • 4/5
      It's Valentine's Day and Suze is hanging out in a cemetery. What else is new? Well, Suze is all grown up but still having to deal with spirits that refuse to move on. In this case, the spirit is a young boy who died in a car crash along with his girlfriend. Everyone thinks the boy wrecked the car on purpose, but the spirit has a different tale to tell and is seeking revenge. Now Suze needs to stop the ghost from killing the real killer and also bring the killer to justice so the spirit can rest. And an unexpected visit from her boyfriend adds a complication she did not see coming.I am so glad to see Suze again. This novella is the set up for the next book in the Mediator series, Remembrance. I really enjoyed seeing how things had changed, and not changed, since Suze was in high school. You don't need to read this to read Remembrance, but come on, who can resist.
    • 5/5
      at first it was odd.. I wasn't used to audio book. this is the first audiobook I tried.. all I can say is .. I am soo glad it is my first. it was.. wow I loved it
    • 4/5
      One of the new updates to the series! There's a difference in tone - a big jump from young YA to adult fiction.This novella, set a few years into the future from the end of book 6, tells how Jesse proposes to Suze (or how she proposes to herself, really). Jesse is a med student and Suze is a psychology student. Of course a few ghosts get in the way of the proposal.As for the whole series, it's pretty good chick lit/YA.
    • 4/5
      In keeping with the tone of the series, there is little that is romantic this proposal, but it still manages to be satisfying.
    • 4/5
      Summary: Suze knew that this Valentine's Day wasn't going to be the best - her boyfriend Jesse is four hours away at med school - but she wasn't prepared for how bad it could really be. First off, she starts the evening in a cemetery, dealing with a recently-deceased young man who doesn't take kindly to Suze's accusations that he killed his girlfriend. Next, she inadvertently sets the now-murderous ghost against the mourning cousin of the dead girl. Then she accidentally discovers that Jesse was planning to propose, causing that to go horribly wrong as well. Can Suze save the living boy, mediate the dead one, and smooth things over with Jesse, all in a single night?Review: My main issue with this short story was that it felt strangely unanchored in time. Or, not unanchored, exactly, but the original books were set in the mid-to-late 90s, and only 4 or 5 years are supposed to have passed in the chronology of the storyline, but this story is clearly set in the 2010s, so I had a vague sense of cognitive dissonance throughout. The mystery that's in the background of this story was pretty good, but the main emotional conflict of the plot - Suze's refusal of Jesse's proposal - felt contrived; she had no clear reason to refuse him other than to create drama. Suze's college roommates were not particularly well developed, and felt more like caricatures rather than characters, but at least they were new, in the realistic way that people meet new people during college - something definitely missing from the following book. Overall this was, like the rest of the series, a fun and quick read, although not long enough to be particularly well developed in terms of characters or plot. 4 out of 5 stars.Recommendation: A cute story, and a good appetizer for the book following it (although it doesn't really explain Jesse's backstory well enough to be stand-alone), but it's not essential reading if you just want to focus on the main series books.
    • 4/5
      I had forgotten how much I love this series. Can't wait to read the last book!
    • 4/5
      I was ridiculously excited to hear that Ms. Cabot was giving us a prequel novella to tide us over until Suze and Jesse's new novel, Remembrance, comes out next month. Since the semester is still six days away, I dropped everything to read Proposal today.Proposal did not disappoint--Suze and Jesse are back, and they're just as adorable together as always! Suze hasn't changed all that much, though she's gotten older--she's still a bit too impulsive and quick to jump to conclusions, though I suppose she wouldn't quite be Suze if she weren't. Once again, though, it's getting her into trouble. Jesse's still not going to let her get away with much, and fortunately, he also still knows when it's time to step in and help save her butt.Even more fortunately, now he's corporeal. :)It was fun to catch a quick glimpse into what the rest of Suze's family is up to--I can't say that I ever really thought much about what her three stepbrothers would be doing now (okay, maybe David. David was freaking adorable from his first scene to his last), but have to admit that where they all end up makes perfect sense from what I remember of them. I can't wait to actually "see" them back on the page, along with her mom, stepdad, and Father Dom.Proposal does a great job of setting up Remembrance, giving us a taste of what it'll be like to be back in Suze and Jesse's world, and hinting at some of the drama that is to come in the full-length installment. If you haven't read the first six books in the series yet, no worries--as she did in each of the other series books, Suze gives a quick recap of what her life as a mediator is like; it should allow you to navigate her world without too much confusion.Though you know, the quick fix to that situation is to read the first six books, pronto. You've got, oh, just under two weeks to get it done ;)Rating: 4 stars / B+