Cause of Fear

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Summary: An exciting horror novel
Review: For the first time in her life Linda Leigh is truly happy because she is in love with a handsome and sexy man who loves her beyond reason. The only problem is Geoffrey Manwaring's son who dislikes her intensely and is waiting for the mother who walked out on him four years ago to return. On the day that Geoff puts a ring on Linda's finger, she started dreaming about fire and when she is fully awake she sees people and buildings burning. Oddly enough, Geoff and Josh dream about fire as well.

One day Geoff's wife Gabrielle suddenly shows up and wants to see Josh. Somehow mother and child are linked and Josh wants to see his mother. Geoff and Linda give in to his son's demands but the meeting doesn't go right and Josh turns away from his mother. Still she is determined to get custody of him and take him away from his father. Josh soon falls under her spell as does Geoff, leaving Linda to be the one to fight an age old evil that wants to destroy an eight year old boy.

Robert Ross has written an exciting horror novel that rivals the works of Clive Barker and Dean Koontz. This modern day gothic horror novel starts off as a thriller but gradually the reader comes to understand that the antagonist is not quite human and it is up to the heroine to save the people she loves from an evil that is millennia old. CAUSE OF FEAR is a very spooky novel that is hard to put down because the reader wants to know how the characters fare.

Harriet Klausner

Rating:
Summary: Reads Like a First Draft
Review: Linda has grown up always thinking she is plain. But now things may have changed for the better as a successful man becomes interested in her to the point of marriage. His first wife left him four years previously. The only downside is his 8-year-old son Josh who thinks his mother will return.

But things begin to go a little strange as Linda and the rest start to have dreams of burning in fire. Then, a woman shows up claiming to be the beautiful first wife. Josh thinks she is not his mother but she eventually bribes herself into his affections. With the return, Linda becomes unsure of her future although her fiance seems to still be in love with her.

But the first wife has a way about her and Linda's new world seems to be crumbling. Desperate for what she had, Linda reaches out to friends and counselors and delves into the secrets of the first wife.

Ghosts, psychic phenomenon, time travel, magical beasts, ancient gods and a few other tricks get thrown into the mix in a plot that just doesn't quite work. Acceptance of strange phenomena is just too easy for many characters to accept. There are also some points that the characters miss which seemed odd in light of all of the contemporary cultural references made (and they never heard of Harry Potter?).

All in all I found myself trying to figure out what was going on but not really liking how it was going there. It seemed a lot like a first draft. I can't really recommend this book.

Rating:
Summary: Reads Like a First Draft
Review: Linda has grown up always thinking she is plain. But now things may have changed for the better as a successful man becomes interested in her to the point of marriage. His first wife left him four years previously. The only downside is his 8-year-old son Josh who thinks his mother will return.

But things begin to go a little strange as Linda and the rest start to have dreams of burning in fire. Then, a woman shows up claiming to be the beautiful first wife. Josh thinks she is not his mother but she eventually bribes herself into his affections. With the return, Linda becomes unsure of her future although her fiance seems to still be in love with her.

But the first wife has a way about her and Linda's new world seems to be crumbling. Desperate for what she had, Linda reaches out to friends and counselors and delves into the secrets of the first wife.

Ghosts, psychic phenomenon, time travel, magical beasts, ancient gods and a few other tricks get thrown into the mix in a plot that just doesn't quite work. Acceptance of strange phenomena is just too easy for many characters to accept. There are also some points that the characters miss which seemed odd in light of all of the contemporary cultural references made (and they never heard of Harry Potter?).

All in all I found myself trying to figure out what was going on but not really liking how it was going there. It seemed a lot like a first draft. I can't really recommend this book.