Tuesday, February 18, 2020

#Review - Fear Power by C.C. Bolick #YA #Fantasy

Series: The Fear Chronicles #2
Format: Kindle, 219 pages
Release Date: November 14, 2019
Publisher: Dirt Road Books
Source: Kindle Unlimited
Genre: Young Adult / Fantasy

Rena Mason once feared never being able to explore her feelings for Travis. Now she fears not being able to save everyone she cares about. As her fear grows, so does her power. With Travis's help, she fights to uncover what really happened to her mom, along with the secrets her dad still hides.

When a renegade agent puts Rena in the agency's crosshairs, other agents question their ability to contain her. If she could just figure out how to fly without crashing to the ground, maybe she could control her powers.

With threats from Louis, Rena prepares to face the truth about her family. But not all threats come from the outside. As Rena will learn, she can't trust everyone at the agency...  





Fear Power is the second installment in author C.C. Bolick's The Fear Chronicles. Timeline wise, the events of this story takes place 6 weeks from the end of Fear Justice. Protagonist Regina (Rena) Wilson has the power to stop and start nuclear bombs. She finds herself once again reunited with her father, and her brother under the power of an agency that was created to monitor humans who have powers and protect the public. As the story opens, Rena is now listed among the Top 10 most dangerous people in the world and moving up. That's saying something from someone whose powers are triggered by her fear.

Rena continues to work with Travis Payne who might very well be the most dangerous man in the Top 10 with (4) different powers. Unfortunately, Rena isn't as safe as she should be. She's too reliant on Travis who is walking on thin ice with agency's leadership. She needs to control her power and to do that, she needs to learn how to fly. Fear at not being able to save everyone shreds her insides. Rena gets an in-depth look into how the agency works, including how some powerful DC Swamp creatures are running the agency for their own personal agendas. If they agency can't control you, they get rid of you.

Louis Castillo is still working to, what he calls, liberate Regina who he claims is his daughter. Louis is the leader of a terrorist group who now wants to obtain the ability to teleport. After Rena is sent on a mission to diffuse nuclear bombs around Atlanta. she runs into a woman who seems to know quite a bit about Rena and her abilities. A woman whose identity I will not share with you. Rena also gets some education from tertiary characters like Rachelle who is able to control temperatures, Angel Lockhart who can control her victims, and Van, a man of mystery & secrets.

The author further steps into the science fiction genre by revealing that there's another planet with advanced technology who have been visiting Earth for years. Will be interesting to see if this story progresses to send Rena to Golvern. Will also be curious as to how Rena reacts to the bombshell she was handed at the end of this story. Too many lies. Too many secrets. Too few people for Rena to trust.


https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48840451-fear-power



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