Name: Shadowland
ISBN: 9780743430500

Jenny Carroll

Susannah thought that things in California would be different from New York, but no, she still sees ghosts in her bedroom. Susannah is a mediator - a contact person for dead people who leave with things in a bit of a mess.

Shadowland

Ebony Cropper

Cute but familiar

I would rate this a 3.5. I enjoyed the quick easy read but it all felt a bit too familiar. Which had me thinking it was very similar to the last Meg Cabot series I had read a feisty teenage girl with a special gift, getting into assorts of trouble and danger to do the right thing. Plus a love interest a little older and unexpected.

I liked the premise and the move from New York to California. Suze was witty and found her place with what people believed to be the misfits but where by far the best group of friends. 

Fitting into her new life I really liked her relationship with her younger step brother David AKA Doc. The character choices were pretty cool, Suze meeting another mediator in the priest, plus her bestie Cece was next level cool.

However, the b*tchy dead school girls, cliques and high school stereotypes were boring and tedious and a little repetitive. I think that’s just life in general.

I know there’s more books in the series and I’d be interested to see if there’s more character and plot development with her resident ghost Jesse.

Shadowland

Reviews

Highlights