3.5~4 stars.

Great getting to spend more time with these characters. The Mediator is my favourite series by Meg Cabot, and I was both excited and apprehensive about an adult addition to the series years after the last one was written. Suze's voice, however, was pretty much spot-on; she sounded just like you would imagine a Suze in her 20s to sound. She's still confident, blunt, and irrepressible, and she really hasn't changed much at all.

I thought Jesse's character seemed a little different – less old-fashioned and unfamiliar with modern society (which makes some sense, given he's had more time to spend in it as a human), and also a little more hot-headed and prone to violent urges. It was a bit of a role reversal in some ways, since Jesse had always been the calmer one to caution Suze, who subscribed to a 'kick butt, ask questions later' kind of approach. I think this was done for (rather weak) plot reasons, more than anything character-related, and overall I wasn't a fan of this apparent change in Jesse. Other than that, though, I really enjoyed the scenes between them; it was a treat to see them in an established relationship after rooting for them throughout the original series.

Plot-wise, I wasn't particularly thrilled with this installment. I mean, Paul blackmailing Suze AGAIN because however many years later he's STILL trying to make a move? Seriously? I thought the whole Paul-blackmailing storyline was pretty weak and kind of confusing, and part of it was not resolved very well anyway (

Spoiler

So was the curse real, or not? What was up with the whole 'demon inside Jesse' speculation? He was a ghost previously, but never a demon...

). (That said, Paul himself as a character is sort of enjoyable in a 'ugh he's such a sleaze, but also sometimes amusing' way.) The other storyline, involving the ghost and Becca, was more interesting, involving uncovering real-life problems rather than supernatural ones.