"Intertwined" by Gena Showaler

Known best for her adult paranormal romance series "Lords of the Underworld" and "Alien Huntress"; Gena Showalter has began writing a thrilling young adult fictional series titled "Intertwined".

In "Intertwined"- we meet 16 year old teen named Aden Stone who appears normal but is far from anything ordianary. Ever since Aden could remember he has had four human souls that are taken up residence in Aden's head- Eve, Julian, Caleb, and Elijah. Knowing his life is different from everyone else- Aden learned how to live with his bodyless friends during everyday life: aurguing amongst each other, casually conversing with him and themselves, forewarning him of impending doom, making other people do things his way (through body possession), waking the dead and traveling back in time! As if that was not enough to make he seem crazed; try having your dreams being invaded by a female who you have never met but have an unspoken bond with. So when the dream girl appears in real life- Aden makes the decision that he must know her at all costs to understand their connection to each other and how she able to get into his dreams. Victoria- Aden's dream girl, is far from the expected fairy princess that normally is drempted about ! Being the youngest daughter to the highest powered vampire Vlad, Victoria  is far from being friendly or welcoming towards humans especially since she was raised thinking humans are nothing but a food source. After meeting and getting more to a 1 on 1 bases, nothing will ever be close to his "normal" life after meeting Victoria; the girl from his dreams made reality. Not being new to the supernatural world- Aden is surrounded by even more supernatural beings than he knew exsisted, increasing life endangering events and death threats every corner he turns. This is all while trying to maintain the appearance of being normal psychologically stable to everyone else to stay out of his therapy sessons and mind altering medications.
With help of new found friends- Riley and Mary Ann; Aden is in desperate need to protect Victoria from her very controlling over-bearing father; help the souls be able to live a life on their own ( in their own body), trying to stay alive from anything raising from the dead along with any other death threats coming out of the wood work; all while trying to maintain good grades and staying out of trouble at school so Dan ( Aden's foster father) will continue to let him go to public school and keeping Aden's hopes of being almost normal a possiblity someday without having a death threat or his life in jeopardy at all hours of the day. How can one human with 4 souls, a vampire, a shape shifting werewolf, and a female who is drawn into this situation by accidental coincedence survive and prove that love can defeat anything? Will Aden ever find peace in his own head? And how does Elijah's impending death possibly occur?

This is a good hearted science fiction YA series as it explores how someone is judged by others especially in and around the "halfway homes" and psychwards without anyone trying to take time to just talk with that person and see what that person maybe really like instead of what we want to interpret and stereotyping just by what we see! I found it a great start to the series because you can seem to relate to atleast one of the souls while you find yourself getting excited for Aden in this adventure and craving to see how one teen can play a huge role in so many peoples lives while trying to himself alive while realizing how it just takes that one special person to change your life before you can even have a chance to resist any changes. The follow up book in this series is "Unraveled"; review to follow soon!