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Fearless #20
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The latest adventure of Gaia Moore; the girl who is genetically incapable of feeling fear.
256 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2002
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Francine Pascal
1,147 books1,852 followersFrancine 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.
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February 15, 2017
Oh man. Like nothing is happening. You would think someone as "highly trained" as Gaia supposedly is would be more adept at reading people.
Ed is so pathetic I can't be bothered to give a shit about his unrequited love.
Ed is so pathetic I can't be bothered to give a shit about his unrequited love.
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December 1, 2012Didn't she go over this in Sam?
October 12, 2018
Summary: Gaia and Ed almost continue their relationship when Gaia realizes that she doesn't want Ed to be harmed because of her; putting a strain in their relationship, Heather continues going out with Josh despite Gaia telling her how he killed Sam and is dangerous, Loki continues to plot behind the scenes and sets up an HQ on the Cayman Islands, Gaia meets a new friend named Gen who actually turns out to be a crook working with Casper (who seemed to be abusive to Gen earlier); Tatiana and Gaia rightfully fight them off, and Tom gets closer to Natasha.
I thought this was one of the high points in the series, despite how Gaia is stupid as always and regular stupidities. Also, I really liked the part where Tatiana helps fight off Gen and Casper, which in my opinion was cool enough to make this the second book in the series thus far to earn 2 stars.
1) I might have not cared much when Gaia and Ed "did it", but what astounded me was how Gaia wanted to do it so early into their relationship. At least Gaia can stop complaining about being a virgin now though.
2) I'm getting tired of seeing Gaia saving nothing but women. Couldn't Gaia save a guy from a car robbery or something?
3) ""Auugh." That was what the word no sounded like with a gun in your mouth."
Not only does this sentence sound too silly for a YA novel, but it's just as stupid as the "Screams of pain were the same in any language" one from Book #14. There were other ways of writing Casper saying no with a gun lodged in his mouth.
4) It's nice to know that Gaia studied the hell out of Go Rin No Sho, but it would be much better to hear other fighting manuals being brought up too. Especially if Gaia's such a combat genius, she would at least mention a few other ones anyway.
5) "But this absolute waste of human tissue, this platnium-streaked, leather-clad troglodyte.... he wasn't really a man per se. He was more of a species. A species of Skizzes and CJs."
We get that Skizz and Cj are "bad people" but how come Frank never gets brought up again? Frank is a repeat child molestor yet Gaia doesn't consider him worse than Skizz, a drug dealer, and CJ, a gang member that tried to kill her. Frank's antics makes them nothing but playground bullies in comparison.
6) Possible Homophobic sentence(?): "This rare bit of unshakeable security also carried over to her taste-her ability to pick the outfit that simply worked, that couldn't be faulted even by insecure competitive women or fashion-concious gay men."
7) The "Good guy turns out to be bad" twist has already been done numerous times in Fearless. Why couldn't Gen actually be good or something? It makes their apparent abusive relationship just a little show for Gaia. Although those parts just made wonder why would Casper and Gen put this much effort into robbing this one person? A possible reason could be Loki set it all up but I don't have much proof if that's a possible explanation.
8) If Gaia was trained to detect lies and body language, how come she never does that in any of the books before this one? She felt for David, She felt for Charlie, She felt for Loki, and now Gaia was fooled by a criminal in plain sight! It's ridiculous how much Gaia is easily fooled despite claiming how smart and trained she is.
9) Again, the fight scene with Tatiana and Gaia was the most enjoyable part of this awful series so far.
Maybe this series is good, but I must be too BLIND to see it through all of the frustrating writing....
I thought this was one of the high points in the series, despite how Gaia is stupid as always and regular stupidities. Also, I really liked the part where Tatiana helps fight off Gen and Casper, which in my opinion was cool enough to make this the second book in the series thus far to earn 2 stars.
1) I might have not cared much when Gaia and Ed "did it", but what astounded me was how Gaia wanted to do it so early into their relationship. At least Gaia can stop complaining about being a virgin now though.
2) I'm getting tired of seeing Gaia saving nothing but women. Couldn't Gaia save a guy from a car robbery or something?
3) ""Auugh." That was what the word no sounded like with a gun in your mouth."
Not only does this sentence sound too silly for a YA novel, but it's just as stupid as the "Screams of pain were the same in any language" one from Book #14. There were other ways of writing Casper saying no with a gun lodged in his mouth.
4) It's nice to know that Gaia studied the hell out of Go Rin No Sho, but it would be much better to hear other fighting manuals being brought up too. Especially if Gaia's such a combat genius, she would at least mention a few other ones anyway.
5) "But this absolute waste of human tissue, this platnium-streaked, leather-clad troglodyte.... he wasn't really a man per se. He was more of a species. A species of Skizzes and CJs."
We get that Skizz and Cj are "bad people" but how come Frank never gets brought up again? Frank is a repeat child molestor yet Gaia doesn't consider him worse than Skizz, a drug dealer, and CJ, a gang member that tried to kill her. Frank's antics makes them nothing but playground bullies in comparison.
6) Possible Homophobic sentence(?): "This rare bit of unshakeable security also carried over to her taste-her ability to pick the outfit that simply worked, that couldn't be faulted even by insecure competitive women or fashion-concious gay men."
7) The "Good guy turns out to be bad" twist has already been done numerous times in Fearless. Why couldn't Gen actually be good or something? It makes their apparent abusive relationship just a little show for Gaia. Although those parts just made wonder why would Casper and Gen put this much effort into robbing this one person? A possible reason could be Loki set it all up but I don't have much proof if that's a possible explanation.
8) If Gaia was trained to detect lies and body language, how come she never does that in any of the books before this one? She felt for David, She felt for Charlie, She felt for Loki, and now Gaia was fooled by a criminal in plain sight! It's ridiculous how much Gaia is easily fooled despite claiming how smart and trained she is.
9) Again, the fight scene with Tatiana and Gaia was the most enjoyable part of this awful series so far.
Maybe this series is good, but I must be too BLIND to see it through all of the frustrating writing....
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October 20, 2008
addictive series in which so little happens in each book.
Sort of like a television series.
But, I'll probably read many more
Sort of like a television series.
But, I'll probably read many more
October 15, 2025
Only thing liked about this was first chapters with Gaia and Ed together. Those were the best then it went to crap after that.
I knew the new girl Gen was bad news she's probably working with Loki just like that Casper guy. I still don't trust Natasha or Tatiana they up to stuff.
Gaia tried warn Heather that Josh bad news but nope Heather won't listen. Course he's manipting Heather even though think might like her. Just A big crap fest especially with what happened to Ed at beginning that made Gaia freak out.
Don't think she's ever going be happy.
I knew the new girl Gen was bad news she's probably working with Loki just like that Casper guy. I still don't trust Natasha or Tatiana they up to stuff.
Gaia tried warn Heather that Josh bad news but nope Heather won't listen. Course he's manipting Heather even though think might like her. Just A big crap fest especially with what happened to Ed at beginning that made Gaia freak out.
Don't think she's ever going be happy.
March 12, 2018
Can’t ____ and Gaia just be HAPPY for the love of all the fish in the sea
September 3, 2010
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.
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.
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July 15, 2011A really great series! One of those where you really can't figure out what will happen next.
October 1, 2013
If Ed gets killed I will be so upset!!
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