Barbara Chepaitis
Author of The Fear Principle
About the Author
Barbara Chepaitis earned her doctorate in composition & teaches at a university in upstate New York, where she makes her home. She is the author of a futuristic suspense series, & enjoys cooking even more than she enjoys writing about it. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- USA
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- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
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Don't authors usually want readers to LIKE their protagonists? I would think so. They want them to empathize with them, sympathize with them, grow to care for them. I hated Jaguar Addams. She's a Trainer on a prison planetoid, where she interviews and interrogates prisoners using her psionic abilities, often having to resort, apparently, to physical violence for self defense. In the first chapter of this book, she approaches her male boss's office, a man who she has no romantic feelings for nor he for her, and she hears a female voice in the office. She opens the door without knocking and finds a female Federal agent in a chair across from his desk, conversing with him. And without any explanation and for no apparent reason, Jaguar moves to her boss's desk and sits on it directly in front of this female agent, blocking her view of Jaguar's boss. Um, wtf? Then she starts kicking this woman's chair repeatedly. What the hell is her problem? And her boss says nothing. The agent says nothing. They just put up with it. Jaguar makes some condescending comments and is rude. Then she reaches out and grabs this woman's clothes and starts man handling her, before this woman backs away from her. If it was me, I would have knocked the shit out of her. And she introduced herself as "Dr. Addams," so why would a self described highly educated professional behave in such a juvenile way? It's beyond stupid. It's beyond rude. She's just a total bitch. I read a few pages further, which showed total stupidity in the book's situation and in the characters and how they operate and decided to give up quickly. Part of the reason is I just quit reading a loser of a book that I actually invested 300 pages on, so I wasn't about to repeat that disaster on an obvious piece of crap like this. I don't know anything about this author, but I do know I'm not going to read anything else by her in the future. She sucks. This book is highly not recommended. It's horrible.… (more)