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Barbara Chapaitis has gone beyond the coming apocalypse--a time of mass madness and slaughter called "the Serials"--to show a world full of people trying to recover their wits and heal their most broken and scarred individuals. Her main character, Dr. Jaguar Addams, is potentially their greatest healer and also one of the most scarred among the survivors. In the course of undertaking her most difficult assignment in teaching others to uncover and face their fears, Addams encounters a plot that threatens to tip the world back into madness. Chapaitis skillfully weaves Native American beliefs, psychology, psi powers, and science into a story full of brave and spirited characters.


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The Fear Principle B A Chepaitis 9780441004973 Books Reviews

I don't think I have ever fallen so quickly and completely in love with a world an author has created. The worlds, the backgrounds, are something we readers so often take for granted. And yet, when it's done so well, we can't help but notice and appreciate.

In a world of empaths and using fears to rehabilitate prisoners, Dr. Jaguar Addams comes across her most difficult prisoner yet. While I won't give away why this particular prisoner is so difficult (I loved that reveal) and the other things working against Jaguar, I will say that this is a match that had me wondering at once how Jaguar was going to overcome it.

I love the characters that Chepaitis has created. For instance, Jaguar is a strong woman, a survivor and someone who doesn't take any crap. And yet, Jaguar is up against people who do rattle her and challenge her. Chepaitis creates no Mary Anns in her writing - everyone is gritty and everyone gets challenged. Those who challenge Jaguar tap right into her fears in different ways, also strumming the theme of fear that runs through this book.

What makes the story truly intriguing for me is that it approaches people struggling against each other not so much with weapons but with minds. As a reader, it's a relief to not have to read about physical violence and to get to see what it would be like if minds could battle minds. (Not always pretty, but that's the sort of thing that kept me turning pages.)

Like I fell in love with the world, I have never wanted to read the next book so quickly after starting the first book. Not even halfway through reading this one, I was very happy I already had a copy of The Fear of God to dive into as soon as I was finished. And to think, there are even more to read! Happy day for this reader.
This is an interesting and engaging sci fi.

Dr. Jaguar Addams is a complex and intense person. She is a skilled empath who works on a prison planetoid. Her job is to confront the hardest of criminals and force them to face their deepest fear. The result is they deal with their issues and can be rehabilitated .... or sometimes they die. Jaguar has the highest success rate of the `teachers' but she has to shield her techniques as some people are afraid of empaths.

Jaguar has an ongoing case with a con artist, Adrian. As she sets up a con to get to his deepest fears, a high level assassin arrives under custody. The assassin, Claire, is as cold as an ice wall. Even Jaguar's supervisor, Alex, who is also an empath, cannot reach Claire's thoughts. The governmental directives on handling Claire include finding out who hired her for the latest assassin. Alex determines that the only one who might have a chance to discover Claire's secrets is Jaguar.

Jaguar is a survivor from the horrible Killing Times on earth when people went berserk and started killing in masses. Jaguar has never shared her history as a young child coming through the horrors of those years. But another co-worker, Nick, was a cop who helped get her off the streets. Nick is slipping in his abilities. He is angry, on the edge and jealous of Jaguar's successes. He wants to be part of her team to work with Claire but neither Alex or Jaguar trust him.

There is someone else, The Looker, who wants Claire eliminated before she can disclose her secrets. The Looker is connected to a government agency that has hidden plans to use technology to replace the empaths and take control. There is a traitor on Planetoid Three who is feeding information to The Looker and helping him to undermine Jaguar. Jaguar discovers clues to a plot and reports to Alex. When Alex goes to earth to investigate Jaguar has to break a few more rules to rescue him.

I liked the characters, even the cold Claire who ultimately shares childhood abuse stories with Jaguar. There is a bit of psychology jargon (or babble as I termed it in my head) entwined in the empath plotline and the criminal mindsets. This caused some confusion but I determined to read through that and enjoy the overall effect of the unique world and the fast paced suspense. When I completed this book I was curious how the relationship between Alex and Jaguar might change in the second story.

Caution - The story has some dark and twisted aspects involving abuse and murder.
Barbara Chapaitis has gone beyond the coming apocalypse--a time of mass madness and slaughter called "the Serials"--to show a world full of people trying to recover their wits and heal their most broken and scarred individuals. Her main character, Dr. Jaguar Addams, is potentially their greatest healer and also one of the most scarred among the survivors. In the course of undertaking her most difficult assignment in teaching others to uncover and face their fears, Addams encounters a plot that threatens to tip the world back into madness. Chapaitis skillfully weaves Native American beliefs, psychology, psi powers, and science into a story full of brave and spirited characters.