Ninth Key: The Mediator, Book 2 (original 2001; edição 2005)

What would you do when the ghost of a woman shows up in your bedroom and tells you to "tell Red he didn't kill me"? You'd tell him, right? Especially if that was the only way to get her to stop screaming and yelling at you all the time. So Suze asks around to find out if anyone knows "Red" and finds out he's a well-known pillar of the community, one with a very hot son she starts dating. Oh, and Red also might be a vampire because he keeps staring at Suze's neck and his assistant does too when he asks if Red hurt her.

Jesse, the ghost who lives in her bedroom, seems jealous over her dating Tad. That's great by Suze because she's falling for him in a big way, even though there's no way they can be together. But Tad's nice, and she gave him poison oak, so she's willing to see if there's something there, even though she's busily trying to figure out if his father murdered a bunch of people or just ate them for a vampiric snack. Red isn't the Red she was looking for so it takes a while for her to deliver the message but when she does it's worth it. ( )

There is only one word I can say after reading this book: Jesse. ( )

Suze just want to be a normal teen.

I really enjoyed listening to this. Very cute and funny. ( )

Not my favorite in the series, but still entertaining.

PopSugar Reading Challenge 2016 | Task 4: Book you haven't read since high school

(It might have been freshman year of college, but who's counting. Plus I need to refresh my memory to prepare for the 7th book). ( )

Suze’s new life in California is looking up. Cool friends, pool parties, good-hair days, and her male room-mate, Jesse, who happens to be a nineteenth-century hottie. But when a screaming, ghostly woman wakes Suze up in the middle of the night, insisting that Suze find someone named Red and tell him he didn't kill her, Suze is none too happy, especially when the ghost disappears before she can get more information. Nonetheless, she asks around to see if anyone knows who this Red person might be and is informed that a local businessman called Thaddeus Beaumont goes by that name.

Suze tries and fails to get in contact with Mr. Beaumont. While scheming over how she might get a conversation with him, she encounters the spirit of a young boy named Timothy, come back because his parents abandoned his cat, Spike. Suze promises to find the animal and get him a good home.

With the pretense that she is there as a reporter for the school paper, Suze goes to Mr. Beaumont's impressive mansion and gets a meeting. In his office, she gets right to the point and delivers the ghost's message. Mr. Beaumont doesn't have the reaction Suze expected, seeming only amused that he wasn't actually the cause of the woman's death. Feeling disconcerted, Suze tries to leave, only to find that the elevator won't open and the windows are barred with heavy shutters.

Just as Suze is beginning to become nervous, Mr. Beaumont's brother Magnus arrives and escorts her out, looking anxiously at her throat and asking if Mr. Beaumont harmed her. On the way out of the mansion, they encounter Tad, Mr. Beaumont's son. Recognizing her from a party they both attended, Tad offers to give Suze a ride home.

When Susannah explains what happened to Father Dom, her principle and fellow mediator, he thinks that the strangeness of Mr. Beaumont's behavior could be due to vampirism. Suze thinks he's being too superstitious, but he says that since ghosts and mediators exist, then why not vampires? ( )