Twilight by Meg Cabot

Suze has gotten used to ghosts. She's a mediator, after all, and communicating with the dead is all in a day's work. So she certainly never expected to fall in love with one: Jesse, a nineteenth- century hottie. But when she discovers that she has the power to determine who becomes a ghost in the first place, Suze begins to freak. It means she can alter the course of history ... and prevent Jesse's murder, keeping him from ever becoming a ghost -- and from ever meeting Suze.

Will Jesse choose to live without her, or die to love her?

This is the last installment of the Shadowland series (for the time being???) and I'm still crying hours after finishing this book.  I love this series so much.  All the characters are likable, especially Suze - she is the girl I wish I was in high school.  Her narration is witty and honest, you can really feel the entire range of her emotions. That being said, this is a book for readers interested in the love affairs of a teen girl who also happens to kick butt.  The action in this series is not sub-par, but it is also not always the main plot line which may leave some people slightly bored.  Personally, the narration more than made that up for me but that's just my personal taste in books.

This book especially was based on the 'love triangle'.  Literally the entire book was about whether Suze and Jesse were going to be together or if Paul was going to get in the way.  There were no extraneous ghost or sibling issues and the fact that there is a whole book dedicated to just this and still be great is amazing to me.  It justifies Meg Cabot's dedication to characters and ability to write.

Really this book was phenomenal.  I won't go into any spoilers but supposedly the next (adult?) installment of the series is coming out in 2015 which I am now torn about reading.  It wouldn't be the first time that some of my favorite characters have been brought out of the woodwork just to be ripped apart by an author trying to make another buck.  I sincerely hope that is not the case and I WILL read the new book because I love this series and I don't think I would be able to overlook anything surrounding Suze and her adventures.

5 stars...duh.