Betrayed

Fearless #24

by Francine Pascal

Completely blind and terrified, Heather confesses her involvement with Loki to Gaia. Meanwhile, Tom and Natascha return home with important news but Gaia is nowhere to be found. Fearing she has gone to confront Loki by herself they rush after her.;

Genres: Young Adult, Fiction, Science Fiction, Teen

224 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2002

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

[yyyasmin · Rating 5 out of 5]

ughhh. why couldn't the series end with this book?? it was already perfect - loki is beaten, gaia reunites with ed, tom with natasha... and then they just HAVE to prolong it. they just HAVE to bring stupid, selfish, weak sam back. i feel like not continuing with the trainwreck that is book #25-36 because i know it'll just go downhill from here. really stupid decision, guys.

[OnePageAway · Rating 2 out of 5]

Summary: Tatiana first believes that her mother is dead but soon learns that it fortunately isn't the case, Heather becomes blind from the Fearless serum and spends some time in the hospital recovering while improving her relationship with Gaia, Ed and Gaia finally go back to being together, Tom finds out George had died, Loki's Fearless serum he took earlier ends up leaving him comatose after a climactic scene which kills off Josh's clones and Dr. Glenn when he initially tried to kill Gaia, and just when it seems like everything is looking great Tom has to be run to the hospital and Sam is brought back into the plot.

This could have actually been a decent Fearless finale for the series but of course at the same time I'm not surprised seeing as there's still around 11 books of storylines to fill.

1. "....And the third was to turn on either the TV (Preferably MTV, as this would make noise but require no attention) or the radio (a classical station would generally be the best choice since all song lyrics were potentially depressing)."

This is a dumb sentence because there are tons of sad and depressing sounding classical music pieces that are likely to play on the radio at any point.

2. Loki goes on in a monologue chapter about how Fear is apparently the reason that people are poor or stupid among other ridiculous claims. Fear cannot control every single aspect of your life like appearance or having money (with the exception of some cases). It's likely because of the serum he took, but it's still terrible.

3. If Loki really wanted Katia so badly, why couldn't he save some of her DNA via a hair sample so that she could be cloned later?

4. The phrase "It was an injury X had never experienced before" is becoming yet another annoyingly repetitive phrase.

5. I thought the scene where QR1 injected the antidote into Heather and gave a hate speech towards Loki was probably the best moment I've read in Fearless and definetly made up for everything else I had read up to that point. Too bad he died shortly after saying that.

6. I feel slightly relieved that Loki has gone comatose but I still have the feeling he's going to come back in a future book.

7. What was the point in bringing back Sam? The series was more bearable without him. Plus, there's so many other different ways to (unfortunately) stretch out the Fearless series without having to ressurect previously deceased characters. Hell, maybe you could make Ivy-one of Gaia's previous friends mentioned in the first book- suddenly return and make a dramatic subplot from that for example.

Maybe I've already LOST my mind, seeing as how I haven't stopped at reviewing every single Fearless book so far...

[anolinde · Rating 3 out of 5]

yooooooo shit is finally HAPPENING in this series!

Loki knocked out of the game (but lbr, he'll be back). Tom suddenly poisoned - I saw you, Natasha, with that wine bottle! Gaia and Ed back together... just in time for Sam to return from the dead, lmao. I'm not a fan of either of those fuckboys, but it'll be interesting to see which one she chooses.

[Ashley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Is Sam alive?

[Christy Roberts · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wasn't fond of the ending on what has happened to Gaia's dad who we find is in fact Tom. The very ending had me little confused til read the summary tag line for book 25 and now know what was happening there.

I'm suspicious on what happened to Tom because he seemed have the problem after he drank what Natasha gave him so is she evil after all?

Loki went nutter than before after taken the serum. I was happy with what happened with what the QR1 clone didn't do to Loki but did for Heather instead. Josh is gone like I thought along with all the clones now. Loki is in a coma too.

Ed and Gaia seem to be official but I know soon she happy it all goes to crap. Here to only 12 more in the series.

[H · Rating 4 out of 5]

THIS BOOK HAD ME VERKLEMPT AND CRYING

THAT IS ALL

[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.

[Syrdarya · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this book after a looong break from the Fearless series, and I had to skip about 10 books or so. I missed a lot in those in-between books! My impression of this book is that it's very emotional. I'd forgotten just how emotional it all seems, as the reader sees the inner workings of several characters. Pretty good, a fast read.

[Brenda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Oh, I think a surprise is coming! I'm back in the game!

[Steph · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another great book in this series.