Gaia Abducted

Fearless Super Edition #2

by Francine Pascal

I thought I knew who my mother was. I thought I knew who my father was. I thought I was fearless. But I was wrong. And when I wanted to escape from here…I was wrong about that too.

I know, because Dr. K. told me so.

Genres: Young Adult, Teen, Childrens, Fiction

384 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Francine Paula Pascal was an American author best known for her Sweet Valley series of young adult novels. Sweet Valley High, the backbone of the collection, was made into a television series, which led to several spin-offs, including The Unicorn Club and Sweet Valley University. Although most of these books were published in the 1980s and 1990s, they remained so popular that several titles were re-released decades later.

Reviews

[anolinde · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was fucking ridiculous, even by Fearless standards. I actually read it out of order in the series (it was published after #27, and I didn't realize until #32), and not once has Gaia's younger brother been mentioned since! I mean, come on, that's not something you forget about or never bother to talk about again.

And the reveal about Tatiana having been programmed at the facility? What? I don't remember Tatiana's POV chapters mentioning anything about her time in Florida. Maybe I wasn't paying enough attention, but this seemed totally out of left field. I thought her mother trained her? Then again, I was never really clear on that progression either...

So yeah. Ridiculous and yet also pretty boring. At least Jake made an appearance.

[Rosemary · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was expecting total brain candy from the author of Sweet Valley High, and that's what I got. The plot didn't make a huge amount of sense, but the psychological tension kept me reading. 3.5 stars.

[Sara · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read Abducted last instead of wherever it chronologically fits within the series, and I'm kind of glad I did. For me, Abducted was a nice sort of way to end the official series (not counting the FBI books that follow) and brought back a lot of the same kind of totally b.a. yet heartbreakingly tragic vibes that Gaia sported in the early days of Fearless. I really loved most of the characters that are introduced...although, having read the rest of the series, I'm a little peeved that a lot of them appear to have been forgotten fairly quickly, but that seems pretty much in line with how things go in Gaia's world, I guess. The premise is also fairly silly, though no more so than most of the other ones, really. All in all, I think what Abducted really did for me was remind me of how emotionally vulnerable Gaia truly is, in spite of all her remarkable abilities...it was that vulnerability that made me fall in love with the series to begin with, so it was nice to see it back again.

[Sheila Read · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have read so many of these books I can't remember all of them.

[Brenda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Really hard to get into. Not like snippy of the others. Series would be better without this last super edition.