The Abduction
by Ester Lopez
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Pub Date Sep 09 2016 | Archive Date May 04 2018
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Description
Dram, a business man and slave-trader, is thinking of making a career change. Too many close calls necessitate this change, especially the recent death of his long-time business partner. When his estranged son walks into his life, he gets a brilliant idea.
Genesis, a princess from Atria, works as a Bounty Hunter for the Interplanetary Space Patrol. She has hunted Dram for ten long years. When she finally captures the man who abducted all the women of her village, she realizes too late she's got the wrong person.
Adam Davis, born and raised in east Tennessee just had a strange premonition that turns into a nightmare. What could be worse than being abducted by aliens and mistaken for a criminal? Discovering the criminal is his alien father and falling in love with the Bounty Hunter who wants him dead.
Advance Praise
"The Abduction is both an adventure set in space and a story of how two people from two different planets come together and end up falling in love." from Reading Alley review
"The Abduction is both an adventure set in space and a story of how two people from two different planets come together and end up falling in love." from Reading Alley review
Featured Reviews
Great book with the great cover and story that will make you read it to find out what happened the characters.
Keeps you wondering all the story on the main characters actions and what will happen to them. Can't wait for the 2nd book in this series.
This book was a fun adventure, with a romance on the side that didn't draw away from the action in any way. What impressed me most about the book is that by the time you're half-way through, A LOT has happened, yet the story doesn't feel rushed at all. There's a lot of adventure, but we get enough details that the reader feels like they are witnessing the events rather than reading a summary.
Genesis and Adam are both similar individuals. They feel a loss of family, they are resourceful, and they feel bound by certain codes of honor or propriety. They admire each other and have similar yet complimentary talents that make them a great team.
We see glimpses of the various cultures that have evolved in very similar ways to cultures on earth. Though we don't get a lot of specific details, it's clear that the cultures of the rest of the universe are just as diverse as the cultures of earth, while still being able to work together and move between cultures. Unfortunately, much like earth, there are deplorable human beings who do horrific things. But between Genesis's knowledge of this part of the universe, and a few new tricks from Adam, they can bring one of the worst criminals to justice, and free countless people who have been kidnapped.
The romance aspect of the book, though present, largely remains in the background up until about the last quarter of the book, where it becomes more of the focus. And though it seems to slow the action down towards the end, I felt it was appropriate, as focusing more on the romance would have just been a distraction from everything else; and the main characters know that they need to prioritize certain things before they come to terms with having fallen in love with someone they are going to be separated from in the end, and deciding what they want in life.