Intertwined

by Gena Showalter
448 pages

Intertwined is a fantasy book that had a little bit of everything, ghosts, vampires, werewolves, you name it, Gena Showalter stuck it in her book. Unfortunately it was just a little too much.

The plot was so predictable, and the relationships felt really unbelievable to me. I did sort of like Aden the central character, but even he got on my nerves. I am really trying to think of some redeeming factor this one had, but I just can't.

This book had too many different story lines with in one book I don't even know how to summarize it. So I am going to let the book jacket do that for you:

Most sixteen-year-olds have friends. Aden Stone has four human souls living inside him:

One can time-travel.

One can raise the dead.

One can tell the future.

And one can possess another human.

With no other family and a life spent in and out of institutions, Aden and the souls have become friends. But now they're causing him all kinds of trouble. Like, he'll blink and suddenly he's a younger Aden, reliving the past. One wrong move, and he'll change the future. Or he'll walk past a total stranger and know how and when she's going to die.

He's so over it. All he wants is peace.

And then he meets a girl who quiets the voices. Well, as long as he's near her. Why? Mary Ann Gray is his total opposite. He's a loner; she has friends. He doesn't care what anyone thinks; she tries to make everyone happy. And while he attracts the paranormal, she repels it. For her sake, he should stay away. But it's too late....

Somehow, they share an inexplicable bond of friendship. A bond about to be tested by a werewolf shape-shifter who wants Mary Ann for his own, and a vampire princess Aden can't resist.

Two romances, both forbidden. Still, the four will enter a dark underworld of intrigue and danger but not everyone will come out alive....

I don't want to discourage anyone from reading this book, some of you might actually enjoy it, but for me, this one was a bust almost from the very begingin. I think maybe Gena Showalter should have embraced the adage, less is more.

The verdict is: Give this one a skip unless you read every YA fantasy book and don't care about content.