I had such high hopes for [b:Remembrance|25573701|Remembrance (The Mediator, #7)|Meg Cabot|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1446288587s/25573701.jpg|23959466]. The Mediator Series was my all time favorite when it came out. Unfortunately I was completely disappointed. The characters were so flat. What happened to the 6.5 books worth of character development that preceded this book?! Suze was hostile and horny. (So help me God if I had to hear about Jesse's "bulge" one more time I thought I was going to vomit. Jesse was hyper sensitive and downright homicidal (I'm also including exorcisms in homicide). There was no middle ground for their emotions, there was no depth to their thoughts and actions at all. Somehow, the characters went from being well rounded, lovable, relatable characters to completely FLAT. The old mediator books were about a Kick-Ass female heroine, and her sexy, protective, and capable, formerly-undead boyfriend, and somehow we get into this book and Proposal, where he takes the "eighteenth century macho-man" persona to a new all time high. Granted, I had a hard time putting the book down... Page after page I was looking for the book to redeem itself, questioning whether or not I just wasn't remembering what happened very well. Sadly, I definitely think there was just something off about this book. I wish there was some sort of redeeming factor here, but there really doesn't seem to be. It's a happy ending, sure and that's always nice, but I never felt a need for more closure than I received in book 6. (Though I'll be the first to admit I was so excited about it anyway, I preordered the book back in MAY of 2014!) Characters were thrown in, thrown together into relationships for no reason (Adam is almost left completely out except to reappear at the end to make unnecessarily sexual commentary in front of CeeCee?), and thrown personality curveballs that really were just unnecessary. Finally, the last thing I wanted in this book, was a Paul Slater story, and that's all you get. If I were Jesse, I'd have called the whole thing off when Suze spends OVER TWO THIRDS OF THE BOOK LYING TO HIM! This isn't the same old Jesse and Suze I knew, and while I know it's 6 years later for our dynamic duo, personalities don't just flatten them selves out over time and character's don't just become more one dimensional. If anything they should mature and better and deepen over time. Suze should be a BETTER mediator, not a worse one, and Jesse should be more trusting of Suze's abilities, not less. All and all, the book gets three stars because I couldn't put it down, but maybe it's really closer to two and a half. I'm so sad and disappointed by this book...

Granted, a sequel with the triplets would be awesome, but only if it can be well written, which I KNOW Meg Cabot does have the ability to do.