Review forthcoming for Monster Librarian. While it was an intense and fast read, there is some subject matter than is more than likely considered disturbing for sensitive readers. Just a fair warning.

The Fear
By Rae Louise


After moving her mother into a care facility,  Mia along with her seventeen year old sister Jamie and her young daughter Louisa inherit a house once occupied by their uncle Billy.

Rumors about Billy's demise run rampant at the neighborhood barbecue pushing Mia to warn the neighbors about  needlessly frightening her daughter and sister
until.....strange things start plaguing the family.

Mia starts having nightmares, and a ghostly shadowman watches Louisa at night. Thinking it was her young daughters imagination, Mia calms Louisa's fears, until the shadowman starts to terrorize the family.

A spine tingling page turner, from beginning to end.
4 stars !

I received this ARC through Netgalley and Black Rose Writing for a honest
Review.

Reading The Fear was like huddling under the blanket pretending to watch Insidious with my teenagers. It pulled me in quickly, and it didn't take long before I was actually turning the pages very delicately, just in case a demon was prepared to pounce. Mia and Jamie are both captivating and troubling, each battling their own inner demons while trying to unite to face the danger at hand. Rae Louise perfectly captures the innocence of both child and canine, and paints a most believable portrait of how each might respond to resident evil. Each secondary character is given a true life force that is interwoven spectacularly with each of the three girls. Louise takes the reader on a roller coaster ride of anticipation, dread, and outright horror right up until the last page. Read this one during daylight, or be prepared to watch it unfold in your mind's eye after dark.

An amazing read. I couldn't put this down. A great quality read

SPOILER-FREE REVIEW OF THE FEAR BY RAE LOUISE

4/5

This review is of an Advance Reader Copy of the The Fear in exchange for an honest review.

The Fear centers around Mia who reluctantly moves her family--her daughter, Louisa, and her younger sister, Jamie--into her late uncle's house following the death of her father and her mother's losing battle with Alzheimer's. Soon after moving into the unassuming residence, preternatural occurrences begin: visions and apparitions quickly escalate into horrific encounters with an insidious entity that tests the familial bonds of Mia's family.

Rae Louise's debut novel, The Fear, is a well-crafted, suspenseful entry into the paranormal horror genre. A worthy supernatural tale filled with mystery, excitement, and scenes that stir unease and dread. I applaud the depth at which the myriad of characters in The Fear are developed; each unique and interesting, adding value to the story rather than being background noise.

Recommended.

This was a hair raising haunted house tale.
After a fire, Mia and her younger sister Jaimie move into their deceased Uncle Billy's house along with Mia's young daughter Louisa, and their family dog. Right away the dog starts behaving strangely and Louisa begins to see "The Shadow Man" in her room. At first Mia puts this down to stress from the fire, the move, not seeing her father enough, and grandma having to be put into care due to dementia. Unfortunately for Mia, none of these circumstances are the cause of the evil that is infesting the house. There is something unearthly there, and it knows what you are afraid of and how to use it against you.
4 out of 5 stars from me.