Intertwined

Intertwined
Author: Gena Showalter
Series: Intertwined (#1)
Publisher: HarlequinTeen
How Received: ARC

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, for as long as he’s with 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....

This book was acceptable. Harlequin Teen found a much better book in My Soul To Take, but Intertwined was still an enjoyable read. I loved the characters - that is, the ones in Aden's head. They were all fleshed out regardless of the fact that they actually had no history. Aden himself could be a bit annoying at times, as was Mary Ann.

The vampires are traditional vampires, and it kind of annoyed me that there was no spin but on them. Even the names - Victoria and Dmitri - were classic vampire names. What bothered me more was that the other magical creatures, though a welcome addition to the story, were just kind of... there. They didn't do anything to enhance the plot line, and they were there and gone as suddenly as they appeared. Perhaps Showalter plans to dive further into that with the other books, but I think that it would have been a much better novel had she cut out all of the seemingly extra creatures.

All in all, it was simply an okay novel. Certainly nothing I would run out and buy right away, but something to pass the time with it when you have nothing better to do.

Overall Rating: 5/10.
Intertwined or My Soul To Take?: Harlequin Teen definitely made a better choice with My Soul To Take - the plot line, characters, and overall writing style are vastly better than Intertwined.

Happy reading, all! Come back tomorrow for my interview with Mandy Hubbard!

~N