Intertwined

By: Gena Showalter

Narrated by: Jessica Almasy

Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins

Publisher's summary

Most 16-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....

©2009 Gena Showalter (P)2009 Audible, Inc.

wonderful storyline!

I love how the story is brought together. I have always enjoyed Showalters books! I can never wait until the next page. 😊

Intertwined

This was not one of her best books I got hooked on her from downloads from audible.com it was okay I just did not like it as much as her others.

Waste of a Credit

What disappointed you about Intertwined?

Everything. It overdid everything.

Would you ever listen to anything by Gena Showalter again?

Listen? Probably not. No. Read? I don't know... Very slight change of that happening.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Jessica Almasy?

I don't know. But she WAY overacted this. I appreciate the effort to have very distinct voices for all the characters, but the rhythm of her narration reading is awful. It was torture to listen to. I couldn't stand it. I'll never listen to anything read by this narrator again. Sorry.

What character would you cut from Intertwined?

Um I thought Riley and Victoria had almost no purpose in this book whatsoever. I think the author is trying to set stuff up for later book, but I hated their characters. I hated their insta-love. I hated basically everything about them. If this story had just been about Aden and his four companions in his head and Mary Ann, it MIGHT have been okay. Those parts were interesting - even genius at times. But everything else - the attempt to make this the everystory of paranormal fiction - trying to *reinvent* vampires, werewolves, witches, goblins, fairies, zombies, future-tellers, AND time-travelers, etc..... IT'S WAY TOO MUCH. And it didn't successfully deliver anything. Honestly, it was a huge disappointment.

Any additional comments?

Don't get to audiobook. Do yourself a favor and skip it.

Don't waste your credits on this one.

I've been listening to audio books for many, many reads. . . this narrator has killed this story for me. I plan to actually read the next book.

I just wasn't interested in this story.

I gave this book about two hours and stopped, maybe I just wasn't really interested or I wasn't in the mood for the teenage angst. I'm not saying it was bad, because I normally like Gena Showalter, I just wasn't interested. More than likely I won't finish the book, but maybe I will return and try to finish another time. I get the impression this book will be boggled down by to many paranormal characters and events, then leaves you hanging at the end after a bunch of up and down reading. I bought this on sale back in 2012 and it has taken me this long to read it so, maybe it wasn't meant to be for me. The most puzzling part was why was the narrator a girl when the main character was a boy? I realize there was other POV but this was a case of wrong narrator for the book.

A credit not very well spent.

I was disappointed with this book, but not because it was meant for teens and I'm not. The problem for me was too many unbelievable and implausible things in the 4 main character's behavior. Nobody gets angry and talks to their father the way the human female lead does in this novel. Much less walks out of the house saying she's going to go stay with someone else. Yeah right! That whole seen was so completely unbelievable I had to stop listening for a while. Then there's the male lead of the story who has all these powers, one of which, he nor we as the reader, is aware of because the author doesn't really write the incident into the story. We are just told about it by a vampire girl, (another lead character), after pretty much every supernatural creature in lore comes looking for the male lead as if he had gotten on a phone and called them. In the just plain dumb category, our hero seeks help from the previously mentioned human girl. Only the help turns out to be something he could have just looked up on the internet then investigated for himself. He's certainly written smartly enough to have done this on his own. I guess when you're writing for teens the story and plot simply don't have to make as much sense as it would if you were writing for an adult.

The pace of the book opens does well and promises some good action. Then it fizzles in the middle only to get good at the end, but the author screws us again with the ending. The book is continued and the story doesn't have a satisfying ending in this, the first novel. The reader is just left hanging with unresolved plot points. I really do think Gena Showalter is a talented writer, but I wouldn't give this book a shot unless you really like the genre AND the second book is available so that you can buy them together. Just listening to the first book will leave you very unsatisfied with how you spent your credit.

Also, is the reader doing helium? Her voice sounds very childish