The Fear of God

by B.A. Chepaitis

Book Overview

On Planetoid Three, Jaguar Addams enters the minds of criminals. She lives in the shadows of their fears . . . and chases them into the light. The followers of the Revelation Sect are preparing for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809500612
• ISBN13: 9780809500611
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

An awesome book

_The Fear of God_ is the second book in the Dr. Jaguar Addams series. In a penal colony modeled after Toronto, Canada, after an epidemic of serial murders called The Killing Times, Jaguar uses empathic skills to find the root of criminals' fears. This time she must use a virtual simulation of Heaven in order to find the source of a female cult leader's fear before the dispersed cult tries to bring about an apocalypse through particularly frightening methods. There is plenty of character development and a great plot, and I definitely recommend this and the other two books in the series.

an excellent sf adventure with great characters

(From a review column to appear in Pirate Writings in May of 1999) This is the second book in Chepaitis' Fear series. It continues, at least in character, the story told in the first book, The Fear Principle. You need not have read the first book to understand this one. On the other hand it will also give you more depth of character to have read the first before coming here. It's fifty/fifty, you can decide. Chepaitis writes about the future and her future comes after the world has paid a pretty high price. Seems there was something called the Serials where people just went off on killing sprees, reducing cities to graveyards and producing survivors with some serious PTSD. As a result, a series of planetoids were developed as penal colonies and rehabilitation facilities. Prisoners get taken off the planet and either survive their rehab or not. This is the story of one of the `teachers' of the planetoid, one Jaguar Adams. The book picks up with the capture of the leaders of a cult called the Revelation Sect. It's a big sect and very secretive so that even though the leaders are captured there is much concern about the remaining followers. The head of the sect seems to be a bit nuts and is also being used as a pawn by the Feds. The cult leader gets placed in a virtual reality world and Jaguar gets assigned to do the rehab. Of course nothing is every that simple in a novel and just how things get sticky and then resolved is why you read one. Chepaitis keeps the pace fairly quick in this book and also creates some tension between the main characters. The Revelation Sect and its leaders as well as the causes behind the creation of the Sect also prove quite interesting and pivotal to the plotting. The writing is clear and purposeful and direct. All in all this is a very entertaining read and a worthy follow up to the first book. My sense is that there is still more to come with this series and that Jaguar Adams has not only a lot of her own stuff to work out but a number of adventures yet to experience. If Chepaitis can keep up the quality they will be adventures we will all want to be on. This is fun science fiction with enough oomph to make the whole experience worth pursuing. A captivating and engaging second book.