What if you could bring someone you love back from the dead?
Miah Rogers never thought she’d be desperate to capture the past and hold it tightly in a mason jar. She never thought she’d be entering her senior year at Luken High feeling like a lunatic either. But after her mom’s mysterious death and sightings of her mom’s ghost, she is shell-shocked. Now, she must decide what kind of person she the kind of person who ignores the truth or the kind of person who is willing to stand up for what she knows is right.
Cameron has been watching Miah from afar. His secret will draw him closer, and his powers will draw her to him. But what he doesn’t know is that Miah’s not the only one who will fall in love. Now, everyone has someone to fight for. For Miah and Cameron, the truth will either pull them closer together or keep them apart.
And the truth comes with a society that will expose them to supernatural gifts, greed, secrets, danger and the knowledge that sometimes the things we fear are the things we need to face to become who we’re meant to be.
Intuitive- I love the title, right away is suggested to me some sort of sensitivity, maybe to a sixth sense or something. This is what made me want to read this book. But don't let the title fool you into thinking it's just a spooky story, it's so much more! Miah is the main character, right away I feel for her. She goes from a normal high school teen to someone who's mother died mysteriously in the bathtub. Then things get weird: she starts seeing her mother's ghost, hence the title Intuitive!
Enter Cameron James, I adore that Cameron calls Miah "Rogers" and Miah calls Cameron "James" once they start to build that relationship between the two. Now I just love a couple "meant to be" and in my eyes Cameron & Miah are! In some ways they remind me of Bella & Edward from, well you know from where!
Conclusion: This book was right up my alley! If you like YA romance where the characters just know they are meant to be together then this book is for you! I also love that the two main characters in this book are both strongly devoted to their families, although Cameron's is a bit unconventional they are still his family.
I really enjoyed Intuitive. It was a great book to end my 2014 year with and I am so glad that the author sent me a copy to review.
Miah is a very depressing and overly dramatic character in the beginning. But that is to be expected from a girl who is entering her senior year as part orphan. Her mother mysteriously died during the summer and now Miah feels like she really has no reason to live.
There are a lot of more modern references in the book. Things were mentioned and I actually knew what was being talked about. The Big Bang Theory was mentioned and after that I was hooked.
In the beginning of the book you sort of think it's just going to be a NORMAL books where a girls mother dies and a new boy comes to town and he makes everything all better and it's all Happily Ever After crap. But that is definitely not the case.
Miah's relationship with her father was strained. Her dad slipped into a terrible depression and he should have been seeking help for himself instead of being all over Miah about her life. Jamie was adorable and it really sucks that he pretty much has no parents now.
Cameron was a whiny boy. I understand he had been through A LOT but he seriously has the emotional standing of a pmsing woman. He gets upset too easily and he storms off and has temper tantrums. I honestly don't know what Miah sees in him. He also felt very possessive to me. He tried to control Miah and certain aspects of her life. He would get mad at her and make her feel like shit and then he would sweep her into his arms and expect everything to be okay. Miah didn't help because she LET him do these things.
I think Cameron took things a little too far with the whole wooing Olivia situation. I don't know that Miah would have kissed Rhett without him manipulating her energy but Cameron kissed Olivia with no second thoughts, it seemed.
Now, Rhett... I would much prefer Miah to end up with Rhett, but that will probably never happen. He might be from this super evil villainous family but he was so amazing and very mature. Maturity is something Miah's other love interest lacks severely.
The plot line of the book was very neat and tidy. It flowed very well and all of the characters complimented each other perfectly. The only thing that I can say was bothersome was the fact that the beginning of the book, the first 150+ pages, spanned over months and months of Miah's life. The last 110+ pages spanned over a few days. It just felt like the beginning was drawn out. Either that or the ending was rushed.
The cliffhanger ending was murder! Haha, no pun intended. The second book doesn't come out until Summer of 2015 and the wait is going to kill me.. HAHA.
I'd rate this more of a 3.5 star book, not quite 4, but not quite 3. The beginning really made me think about myself as a mother and what I'd want my children to remember about me. I think the author did a good job getting into the head of a grieving teenager. The concept of the book is a very intriguing "ghost story" and I would love to read the sequel when it comes out later this year if a few things were different. That being said about the great plot, there are some very distracting negatives as well. This book was a little hard to get into at the beginning--I almost stopped reading it. Once the plot finally picked up though, I couldn't put it down. The teenage romance is cheesy and often awkward to "watch" unfold. The references to current movies, music and trends (iPhones, texting, tweeting, etc) were over the top--no teenager will want to read through the outdated trends (I didn't want to now) and this book will fall off the grid. I hope for her sequel (she ends the book abruptly mid-scene) she drops the contemporary references, eases up on the cheesy romance, and continues the thick plot with her talent for the element of surprise (I couldn't figure out what was going to happen next).
I really enjoyed the characters and the story. There a lot of twists and a cliffhanger at the end. The reason I gave it only three stars was because of the errors in the book that a decent editor would have caught. I'm looking forward to the next book in the series. I just hope she fires her editor and gets a new one.
Absolutely loved this book and has been waiting patiently for the next one. It's been almost two years since I read the first one so what's going on???