After Reading: ABDUCTED LIFE by Patricia Josephine

By: Meradeth Houston on 4:00 AM

Savannah Janowitz’s perfect life was destroyed the night she and her boyfriend vanished without a trace. When she reappears a year later––alone––she’s a shell of her former self. Robbed of her popularity and her boyfriend, she has no memory of what happened to her. Savannah struggles to move forward as strange, new abilities manifest. 

Evan Sullivan never gave extra-terrestrials much thought until the night he and Savannah were abducted. While Savannah’s memory was wiped clean, he remembers every horrific detail. Constantly reminded of the experiments that made him less than human, Evan hides in the shadows and watches Savannah rebuild her life without him. 
But neither can let the other go. When their paths cross, Savannah and Evan finally see a glimmer of their old lives return. As they face what happened to them, they soon discover they aren’t safe. There’s more to fear than what’s hiding in the stars. (Goodreads)

This was one of those incredibly quick reads that I got through on one of my recent flights. It was quick, fast-paced, and interesting. I did find myself wanting to see more of Savannah's life in the years intervening between her return and when we meet up with her in college. There's a lot that goes on there that seemed a bit glossed over. She's certainly got some weirdo side-effects of what happened to her, some of which I would have liked more explanation for (such as why on earth does she turn into some crazed sex-maniac once a month?). Also, the ending with the other type of alien kind of dropping in from nowhere did leave me with an ex deus machina taste. It was okay, I guess, but felt a little forced. Anyone, overall, an interesting story, but a few places I would have loved to see a bit more into the character's, and alien's, world. 

Have you had a chance to read this one? What do you think about alien abductions?