Blind

Fearless #21

by Francine Pascal

Gaia is again forced to choose between her father and her uncle in the next installment of this edgy, urban series. Has the impossible happened Can Gaia at last feel fear Having been injected with a serum by her uncle, Loki, Gaia is now experiencing some strange emotions, but being unfamiliar with certain feelings she is not sure whether this is fear. Heather, on the other hand, is more than willingly to give up her own fear gene. Even though she is unsure whether or not she can trust Josh, when she is offered the chance to participate in an experimental protocol to supress the fear gene, Heather jumps at the opportunity. This is what she has always wanted - this is her chance - a chance to be like Gaia. Meanwhile relationships and alliances are shifting. Ed and Tatiana grow closer as Gaia pushes Ed further away. But the more Gaia learns about Tatiana and her mother, the more certain she is that she and her father are in danger. Until, that is, a startling revelation from Loki leaves her wondering whether she even knows who her father really is...

Genres: Young Adult, Fiction, Science Fiction, Teen, Childrens

224 pages, Paperback

First published April 30, 2001

About the author

Francine Paula Pascal was an American author best known for her Sweet Valley series of young adult novels. Sweet Valley High, the backbone of the collection, was made into a television series, which led to several spin-offs, including The Unicorn Club and Sweet Valley University. Although most of these books were published in the 1980s and 1990s, they remained so popular that several titles were re-released decades later.

Reviews

[Jacci · Rating 3 out of 5]

OK so I think she needs to move on with the plot. Have Tatiana and her mom reveal if they are evil have her dad explain himself. She needs to come clean to Ed. I feel like all of these books are the same Gaia is gorgeous but doesn't realize it...Heather is jealous of her...Gaia thinks no one loves or cares about her let the self- pity parade ensue. I want kick ass Gaia back and PLEASE LET SOMETHING HAPPEN that actually makes a difference....Rant over...

[OnePageAway · Rating 1 out of 5]

Summary: Gaia finds out about DNA plans and is faced with the possibilities of Natasha being a double-crossing agent, Tom stakes out information on Loki and his whereabouts, Ed spends some time with Tatiana and is soon told that he can start walking without crutches, and Heather gets excited to take the Fearless serum through Josh's persuasion.

Blind was a pretty boring read, but I slogged through.

1. You'd think that after the Gen and Casper brawl in the last book, Gaia and Tatiana would have made up already, but here they're still fighting.

2. Why is it so hard for Natasha to actually discipline Gaia for acting out and insulting her and her daughter? It's fine that she takes a gentle approach but considering Gaia's behavior I think she deserves to be grounded at least more than once.

3. I'm starting to find Tom's agent mission subplots to be more interesting than whatever Gaia's going through at the moment.

4. Ed's ridiculous monologue about breakfast and how females like their breakfast a certain way comes across as irritating to me. Ed claims that all girls love taking time to eat breakfast. That may be true for some, but for many other girls, they don't care about spending time at breakfast and would rather rush through breakfast to get it over with-some skip breakfast entirely. Also, I don't know why Ed would note about there being "very few girl foods at breakfast" when food doesn't really have a gender unless you count certain products with an blatant female target audience. Stupid Monologue is Stupid.

5. Blind actually acknowledged my concern about Gaia being injected with a serum that could have killed her, but doesn't really excuse it.

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[Ashley · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm getting tired of the whole wallow in pity act by Gaia. And Ed just needs to move on but I know that he won't.

[Hannah Edmonds · Rating 3 out of 5]

This one was slow moving and there wasn't much to do with Gaia. I'm getting fed up of the "in your real dad" storyline. The Josh and Heather storyline is getting interesting, I just hope it isn't dragged out for too much longer.

[Terry Marine · Rating 2 out of 5]

It had some fights. I like fights. I mean, real fights, not just arguments. So yeah, fights. Heather gets in over her head. And finds out she almost has one. A head. Mary Sue is still Mary Sue, and acts out. Mary Sue shouldn't act out. She should be the peacemaker and problem solver. But this Mary Sue gets to act out, because she is Mary Sue. And being Mary Sue comes with privileges. Because she's so much better than everyone else. Oh, and she walks through New York City parks at night, to beat up muggers. And never gets shot! Amazing.

[Christy Roberts · Rating 1 out of 5]

George was giving Gaia info on who Natasha is but she also found letters where her dad had been writing her. I'm wondering if those letters were faked somehow. The letters had Gaia seeing how much her dad does want be here would suck if was faked.

Still hasn't picked back up. Don't like Ed hanging with Tatiana. We at least see that Gaia wants him but she doesn't want what happened Sam happen him.

Heather falling farther into Loki's trap.

[anolinde · Rating 2 out of 5]

blah blah blah

[Kim · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've read this series over ten years ago. But I remember it being very good. For the first 18 books. After that the more it lasted the worst it got. I stopped at book 32. These days I wouldn't give it more than 20.

Back to the good stuff. I found that Gaia was a good strong, pretty but still flawed character. She was special without being annoying. It's just that once the author stopped looking over the shoulder of the ghost writer. Things went down the drain pretty fast.

Last note. The series may be in boxes but I won't be giving them away any time soon. She's a good example of an interesting main character in an interesting premise.