I know…as a hotblooded female, I’m supposed to think that Mr. Darcy is the all-time winner in the literary dreamboat, perfect-man category, but I’m here to say, I’ve fallen for another. In Meg Cabot’s THE MEDIATOR series, our fair heroine (okay, butt-kicking heroine), Suze Simon, is in love with the ghost that haunts her room, Jesse de Silva. And I have to say she couldn’t have made a better choice. He is a hottie!

When I read this series about two years ago, I just ploughed through it, unable to put it down. Recently, I’ve started listening to it on audio, and this is truly a fabulous medium for these books. It’s so exciting. And the narrator does an excellent job of reading (not always the case). I have always thought that Meg Cabot is a very good writer, but I think the actual writing in this particular series outweighs any of her others. She’s always created great at characters, but the settings in this series are really done well. I can’t say that I have any real desire to ever go to California, but her descriptions of Carmel actually make me consider it.

Interestingly enough, while I’m waiting for the last two audio books in the series to arrive at my library, I picked up HOW TO BE POPULAR, also by Meg Cabot. I had tried listening to this book on audio last year and couldn’t get past the first half hour. However, reading it is great. It just goes to show that not all books are right for reading aloud.