Gena Showalter
Intertwined
HarlequinTEEN (US: 1st September 2009)
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The supernatural and psychological mix in Gena Showalter’s slightly confusing, but mostly epic, young adult urban fantasy, Intertwined.
Aden Stone has four souls living inside him, each with their own paranormal ability: raising the dead, seeing the future, possessing another human, and time travelling. Aden can hear them most of the time – except when Mary Ann Gray is around. Somehow she negates their presence, but how, and why?
Vampires and werewolves also feature in the novel, but their sub-plots are unremarkable. Witches, demons and fairies also have their place here, but these create a kitchen sink effect – chuck everything in, and see what happens. This ultimately lets the story down, because the time travel is undoubtedly the most engaging and engrossing part of Intertwined. Having never really encountered it before, it comes across as fresh and new, with an original take making it more personal for the characters, and thus more relatable for readers. It’s riveting reading, and signals time travel as perhaps the next big thing in fiction. I know I’m intrigued.
I saw this featured at BEA (though sadly I couldn’t get a copy until tomorrow, which I’m not attending) and seen it around before. I was kind of wary of the fact he has ‘four souls’ ricocheting around inside of him though.
I found this book to be amazingly wonderful. at first I was worried on weather or not this would even be worth my time to read. but it was completly worth it! she has this book in so many directions and so many motives and problems but some how she just made it all work so well together in a way I never knew. I honestly did not think it was going to be so good.