Terror (Fearless #32) [Mass Market Paperback]

Francine Pascal (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 2, 2004

The sight of blood makes my heart race.
The slightest noise makes my palms sweat.
A tiny spider makes my stomach drop.
Everything frightens me.
And I've never been happier.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Simon Pulse; 1 edition (March 2, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0689867077
• ISBN-13: 978-0689867071
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #711,187 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Francine Pascal is the creator of the Sweet Valley High series and one of the world's most popular fiction writers for teenagers and the author of several bestselling novels, My Mother Was Never A Kid (Hanging out with Cici), My First Love and Other Disasters, as well as the series Fearless. Her adult novels include, Save Johanna! and If Wishes Were Horses (La Villa) and the non-fiction, The Strange Case of Patty Hearst. Pascal is on the Advisory Board of The American Theatre Wing. Her favorite sport is a monthly poker game. She lives in New York City and France.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Less Action, More Development, March 2, 2004

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Joshua Koppel (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Terror (Fearless #32) (Mass Market Paperback)

This 32nd volume of Fearless is different form most of the others. There is very little action here. We do get a health dose of plot and character development however.

In the previous book, Gaia underwent gene therapy to cure her fearlessness and thus, hopefully, add some normalcy to her life. Here is what everyone is up to.

Gaia - Feeling fear and being confused by it.

Jake - Confused by the new Gaia, but they did have "the conversation."

Oliver - Concerned for Gaia. Maybe.

Ed - Still recovering in the hospital.

Liz Rodke - Still championing Gaia. This time with a society event.

FOH - Reluctantly decide Gaia must have something going for her as she keeps landing the great guys.

Shadowy operatives - Still in the background keeping an eye on Gaia.

This one ends with a bigger cliffhanger than most which wants us to read the next one. It promises to have more bang than this one.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Gaia has been ruined, March 5, 2005

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L. Melin "Lauren" (Massachusetts, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Terror (Fearless #32) (Mass Market Paperback)

I love the Fearless series but this book doesn't even seem like part of the series. Gaia is not supposed to feel fear. It makes her different from the characters of every other YA book. Gaia as an insecure, scared teenager makes this book the absolute worst of the Fearless series. It reminds me of when Gaia was delusional in the SuperEdition: Gaia Abducted. She is that different. And her with the "unbearable" FOH's is unbearing.

If you love the Fearless series, don't even bother reading this edition. You'll be extremely disappointed.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Stop the series, I want to get off!, December 12, 2004

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Melissa (nanaimo, canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Terror (Fearless #32) (Mass Market Paperback)

I'd like to start off by saying that the worst Gaia book is still a helluva lot better than most YA books out there. Granted, Terror was a low point for the series in my opinion. But in the overall course of over thirty books, the FEARLESS series is not-to-be-put-down.
I only started reading it a year ago, when I randomly picked up the first book at my public library for an easy 'gulp' read on a long car trip. I soon found myself canvassing bookstores, the net, libraries and friends' bookshelves to get my hands on the Gaia books as fast as I could, and when I had a nice big stack, I read them all. I have since continued to collect them and read new ones in the series as they came out, and overall I was not disappointed.
And while I can see the necessity of Gaia finally experiencing true fear (just so she can understand the great points of her fearlessness and why others will go to such great lengths to have what she thinks of as a disability), and while I appreciate the irony of Gaia finally finding a guy who likes her because she's fearless and mysterious and complicated (Jake) just when she starts to turn into a 'normal' girl, I was disappointed by this book, not by any twists of plot, but by the characters that have been all but abandoned. Sam has vanished yet again, now that he's served his purpose in helping Gaia capture Yuri. It was looking like the Ed-and-Gaia friendship (which was one of the things that captivated me in the early books) might finally get back on track, but now Ed's in the hospital and soon the series will be drawing to a close.
Colour me disappointed. Tom Moore is gone again, and while that's not unusual, it's a downer. And while I never really liked Heather, we weren't supposed to LIKE her, just understand why she was the way she was, and now that we do, she, too, has been MIA for several books. Enter the Rodkes, who I could have done without, and Gaia's sudden desire to be liked by the FOH's (though they have helped her in the past) throws me off. All in all, Terror was a disappointment, and while I'll finish the rest of the series, I'm taking a breather first.