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Title: Freak
Subtitle: Fearless, Book 30
Author: Francine Pascal
Narrator: Elizabeth Evans
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-03-14
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Teens, Ages 11-13
Publisher's Summary:
With her dad safely home after being kidnapped and Natasha and Tatiana in custody, Gaia is enjoying a sense of normalcy for the first time, but the kidnappers are still at large and Natasha and Tatiana are refusing to cooperate.
Members Reviews:
Lacks the thrill of Earlier books in the series
This new Gaia doesn't have that edge that the old Gaia, street smart New York fits her like a glove kind of girl had. This new Gaia seems softer, hanging off of Jack like a fuzzy Koala Bear. And speaking of their relationship, though they are alike physically and somewhat mentally their relationship lacks the spark (or rather the bonfire) that was Gaia and Sam or the sweetness of Gaia's relationship with her best bud, ex skater rat-Ed.
Ed and Sam seem faraway from Gaia as is Pluto from the sun in these last few books. In the past books it was their relationship with Gaia that I though kept her from becoming complete cold and alienated and distrustful of humanity and now poof! They're gone. Now Gaia's basking in the Sun of a new Normal life but it's lacking the heat of Gaia's relationship's with these fine leading men. And just where the heck is Heather? I miss that girl!
Don't get me wrong, Jake's a great guy-I mean he caught a bullet for this girl! But I was skimming the pages because it didn't have the tension and intensity of the earlier novels. Now Gaia and Jake are like a scum butt kicking team which sounds great but it's actually kind of boring because they're so much alike in someways. Gaia doesn't need a twin! This Bobbsy(however the heck you spell it) twin team didn't keep my eyes speeding across the page like Run for example or Gaia Abducted. And Gaia just seems different. Of course she's naturally graceful and strong but now she seems like a sterotypical Jock and if there's one way to describe the earlier Gaia is that she couldn't be sterotyped-she was in a class by herself!
Gaia and Family
Book 30 and Gaia is still going strong. There are a few more influences from the Fearless TV show as we see Gaia beginning to work with a team (al la Buffy and the Scooby Gang). This time it is Gaia, her father Tom, uncle Oliver, and Jake who must band together and save the day from the man Natasha was working for. A little information given here is contradictory to that given in Gaia Abducted (thus placing the Super Edition outside the true storyline).
Gaia - Coming to terms with having a family and possibly a new boyfriend.
Jake - Still interested in Gaia and spy work although at times he is not sure he is ready for real spy work.
Tom - Must confront trouble from his past as well as reconcile with his brother.
Oliver - Trying desperately to atone for his past as Loki.
Natasha - Still in custody and maybe willing to talk.
Sam - Still in love with Gaia and thinks they still have a future.
Ed - Wondering at the incurability of Gaiabetes.
Loki - Probably gone but we don't know for sure.
Dimitri - We finally learn some of his secrets.
All this in only a little over 200 pages. A fast-paced and packed book that develops the series nicely. Some readers are beginning to miss Gaia the Loner but if the series is to proceed and develop, then Gaia has to do so as well.
Finally a little closure but...
FREAK finds Gaia trying to finally have a normal life, well as normal a life that a girl without the fear gene can have.