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

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.