7. Romance: Intertwined

Citation:

            Showalter, Gena. Intertwined. Ontario: Harlequin Teen, 2009. eBook.

Annotation:

Since meeting Mary Ann, Aden has become a magnet for the paranormal.  Witches, goblins, fairies, vampires, and werewolves are all after him.  To make things even weirder Aden is now dating the princess of the vampires. 

Justification for Nomination:

This book truly fits into the romance category because of the adventure undertaken by the main characters, as well as the budding romantic relationships in the book.  The writing style took on a very interesting style of using a point of view shift in the book.  Because of the point of view shift between Mary Ann and Aden it felt like the book had two main characters.  The narrative style was limited omniscient, because the narrative voice only know what the character point of view it was covering at the time and not what the other characters were thinking and doing. 

Both main characters change from the beginning to the end of the story.  Mary Ann was an innocent happy girl; she changes when she learns about the harmful secrets people keep and when she discovers the world of the paranormal.  Aden was a tortured person that shared his body with four other souls.  He changes because of friendship, finding a girlfriend, and discovering he is not the only freak in town.

In this story the dialogue really does not consist of he said she said.  Many of the statements are untagged and many times the main characters thoughts and actions continue between the statements said out loud.  Despite the actions and thoughts interrupting the conversation, the conversations still seem to flow really smoothly in the book.

Even though there was some intense action in the beginning of the story, it took a good one hundred pages to get involved in the story.  Over all the story was good and got very thrilling at the climax near the end.  The end was a cliffhanger and really drives the reader to want to run out and get the next book.  That seems to be a really common element for romance. 

Genre:

Romance / Paranormal / Fantasy