Kriss Stephens knows one thing for sure: ghosts (whatever they are or however you choose to define them) exist, and she really knows how to find them. And take their pictures. She refers to herself as a "paranormal investigator and a professional photographer", and FEAR is the story about some of the hundreds of ghost-hunts she's done over the years.
There is, in Stephen's world, no such thing as a world without ghosts, and there's no point trying to prove their existence, because, well, they exist. She's very sure about that. What's worth investigating, though, is how and why a certain location becomes haunted. And yes, I agree, those are definitely questions worth asking. But just make sure not to do it they way Kriss Stephens does it.
Because I don't think I've ever seen a so-called paranormal book of such low quality. There's no reason doubting that Stephens believes in what she does; she's both honest and motivated, but honestly, if she's really a "paranormal investigator" and especially a "professional photographer", then my parents' dog could be that too.
The book is absolutely packed with black and white pictures, and they're all just as boring, pointless, uninteresting, and stupid. In each new chapter, Stephens alone or together with a group of "colleagues" goes to a haunted location, and wherever she goes she has some sort of ghost-related "paranormal" experience. As soon as she arrives at a new site, be that a house with a violent history, a battlefield from the American civil war, a cemetery and so on, she starts taking picture with her digital camera, and she always ends up with photographic proofs of the presence of ghosts.
Well, then, what are those proofs of hers? Orbs, orbs, and more orbs. In other words, perfectly natural phenomena that has nothing whatsoever to do with the world of the paranormal. And in case it's not orbs then it's fuzzy details or smoke or something else very much mundane that in Stephens' eyes turn into ghosts.
And that's how the story goes throughout all of the book's 234 pages. More or less every single page has at least one picture, and most of the pictures don't even show anything interesting at all. The book is not one bit investigative, there's no critical thinking to be found, and I doubt that I've ever read a book where the author has been as gullible as Kriss Stephens.
Yet, I still had a good time reading it, because gullibility can be extremely entertaining. Still, I cannot help but to feel sorry for Stephens, who apparently lives in her own little fantasy world where ghosts almost seem to outnumber real life humans.
zzzzz! I was really disappointed! The book offers nothing new, interesting or exciting. The author claims to be a professional photographer as well as a ghost hunter, but I didn't see any photos in the book except some orbs, mist and a vortex or two. Considering the fact that the author has visited some of the most haunted places in the world, I would expect a more detailed and believable account of her experiences. In checking out her web sites I found the same information and photos which that were in the book, which left me wondering why anyone would choose to buy it.
