A review by gillygild2342
Fear by Michael Grant

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

What the hell just happened?!?!

The dome grows black because the gaiaphage is dying but it sees hope in being born in Diana’s baby so it sends drake/brittany after it. Meanwhile Caine and Sam have their territories and for the past 3-4 months Astrid has been camping. Astrid got better in this book but I highly doubt she won’t revert back to her annoying self in the last book. Also WE GOT TO SEE OUTSIDE THE DOME?!?! So some of what the gaiaphage said in LIES was true?!?! And Petey did show the outside too?!?! All hell breaks loose as the dome completely blackens and there is a lot of chaos but let’s see, petey is some spirit that can mess with peoples DNA and he turns Taylor into pretty much solid gold as well as kills a few people, penny is used as the punisher in caines town and goes to far and then goes insane and captures Caine momentarily before teaming up with Brittany/drake. Howard died. WE FIND OUT EDILIO IS GAY AND WITH RODGER WHICH IS THE BEST NEWS!!! That boy deserves some love and good!! We learn that petey used the gaiaphage literally to make the dome and that now he doesn’t have the same powers since his body is gone. Sam is declared the warrior instead of the leader and he and Astrid finally have sex (which I am 10000% sure she’ll be guilty about later). Dekka and Brianna sort of reconcile and we aren’t really sure about Brianna’s feelings for Jack (who might be dead thanks to drake and his whip). The big ending is the gaiaphage gets Diana and forces her to grow and give birth to her baby months early and then possesses it basically, named gaia. Gaia then continues to grow and mature over the course of like 45 minutes to be about 2 years old and can fling people and is a 4 bar. The dome starts to crack (and maybe sustains a nuke explosion on the outside thanks to the military) and then it goes CLEAR. The adults witness a dead penny and Sam trying to burn an “innocent” toddler who manages to live and Gaia, Diana, Brittany/drake run off into the desert. Sam’s mom saw him and Caine. Astrid’s parents show up asking about petey. Sam then incinerates penny’s body with everyone watching as basically a “you know nothing dumb adults, ask your questions, pass you judgements, and go fuck your self” and they head back to town to figure shit out. Also we learned that Connie had intended on keeping both Sam and David (Caine) but had post partum and became convinced Caine was evil. She got better but when her husband TEAGAN SMITH died in the meteorite accident at the plant(!!!!) she spiraled again and eventually gave Caine up for adoption.  Also she’s not sure that Caine and Sam are full sibs as she was having an affair at the time. Wild.

Gaia is fucking terrifying!! My literal nightmare. Now that she’s out and about I have no idea how the series is supposed to end in a book?!?! This book took the series and said let’s fuck shit up! Wow.