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Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 214 times as abduction)
avg rating 4.08 — 850,848 ratings — published 2010
Still Missing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as abduction)
avg rating 4.01 — 111,758 ratings — published 2010
Living Dead Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as abduction)
avg rating 3.77 — 34,517 ratings — published 2008
Captive in the Dark (The Dark Duet, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as abduction)
avg rating 3.92 — 75,646 ratings — published 2011
Tears of Tess (Monsters in the Dark, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as abduction)
avg rating 3.97 — 44,423 ratings — published 2013
Comfort Food (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as abduction)
avg rating 3.68 — 19,230 ratings — published 2010
A Stolen Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as abduction)
avg rating 3.98 — 152,838 ratings — published 2011
Twist Me (Twist Me, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as abduction)
avg rating 3.83 — 33,933 ratings — published 2014
Stolen (Stolen, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as abduction)
avg rating 3.89 — 88,193 ratings — published 2009
The Last Child (Johnny Merrimon, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as abduction)
avg rating 4.15 — 47,394 ratings — published 2009
Ice Planet Barbarians (Ice Planet Barbarians, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as abduction)
avg rating 3.61 — 225,009 ratings — published 2015
Wanderlust (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as abduction)
avg rating 3.55 — 8,717 ratings — published 2013
Still Beating (ebook)
by (shelved 29 times as abduction)
avg rating 4.18 — 276,677 ratings — published 2020
Consequences: A Dark Wealth and Power Romance (Consequences, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as abduction)
avg rating 3.91 — 43,640 ratings — published 2011
The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as abduction)
avg rating 4.08 — 328,458 ratings — published 2016
Seduced in the Dark (The Dark Duet, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as abduction)
avg rating 4.26 — 56,653 ratings — published 2012
Nine Minutes (Nine Minutes, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as abduction)
avg rating 4.34 — 19,753 ratings — published 2014
The Face on the Milk Carton (Janie Johnson, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as abduction)
avg rating 3.69 — 66,645 ratings — published 1990
If You Find Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as abduction)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,738 ratings — published 2013
Dead to You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as abduction)
avg rating 3.65 — 9,239 ratings — published 2012
Choosing Theo (Clecanian, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as abduction)
avg rating 4.07 — 58,925 ratings — published 2020
Then She Was Gone (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as abduction)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,107,318 ratings — published 2017
Prisoner (Criminals & Captives, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as abduction)
avg rating 3.90 — 13,688 ratings — published 2014
Debt Inheritance (Indebted, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as abduction)
avg rating 3.75 — 27,593 ratings — published 2014
Pretty Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as abduction)
avg rating 4.00 — 808,546 ratings — published 2015
Keep Me (Twist Me, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as abduction)
avg rating 4.06 — 19,246 ratings — published 2014
Abduction (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as abduction)
avg rating 3.55 — 1,992 ratings — published 2008
Quintessentially Q (Monsters in the Dark, #2)
by (shelved 17 times as abduction)
avg rating 4.30 — 22,786 ratings — published 2013
A Hunger Like No Other (Immortals After Dark, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as abduction)
avg rating 4.04 — 95,596 ratings — published 2006
The Couple Next Door (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as abduction)
avg rating 3.80 — 751,211 ratings — published 2016
Pennies (Dollar, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as abduction)
avg rating 4.12 — 17,427 ratings — published 2016
The Good Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as abduction)
avg rating 3.80 — 299,583 ratings — published 2014
Vanishing Acts (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as abduction)
avg rating 3.73 — 120,492 ratings — published 2005
The Paper Swan (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as abduction)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,447 ratings — published 2015
A Kingdom of Dreams (Westmoreland, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as abduction)
avg rating 4.20 — 57,251 ratings — published 1989
All the Colors of the Dark (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as abduction)
avg rating 4.23 — 545,134 ratings — published 2024
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as abduction)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,672,039 ratings — published 2015
Escape from Paradise (Paradise, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as abduction)
avg rating 4.03 — 7,117 ratings — published 2013
Break Her (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as abduction)
avg rating 3.50 — 4,377 ratings — published 2012
Girl, Stolen (Girl, Stolen #1)
by (shelved 14 times as abduction)
avg rating 4.02 — 28,507 ratings — published 2010
The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as abduction)
avg rating 3.85 — 709,033 ratings — published 2007
Pretty Stolen Dolls (Pretty Little Dolls, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as abduction)
avg rating 4.30 — 7,047 ratings — published 2016
Owned (Decadence after Dark, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as abduction)
avg rating 4.04 — 7,701 ratings — published 2014
First Debt (Indebted, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as abduction)
avg rating 4.19 — 18,741 ratings — published 2014
Deliver (Deliver, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as abduction)
avg rating 3.92 — 11,934 ratings — published 2014
Torn from You (Tear Asunder, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as abduction)
avg rating 4.08 — 16,433 ratings — published 2013
Grim (Tornians, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as abduction)
avg rating 4.08 — 11,963 ratings — published 2013
Aftermath (Aftermath, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as abduction)
avg rating 4.06 — 6,017 ratings — published 2013
Mafia Captive (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as abduction)
avg rating 3.46 — 4,760 ratings — published 2013
3,096 Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as abduction)
avg rating 3.97 — 16,705 ratings — published 2010
“The Sexual Episodes
When folklore becomes degraded to a minor literary form, as the fairy-faith was degraded to the fairy tales we know today, it natualy loses much of its content: precisely those "adult" details that cannot be allowed to remain in children's books. The direct result of the censorship of spicy details in these marvelous stories is that they become mere occasions for amazement. The Villas-Boas case is hardly appropriate for nursery-school reading, but to eliminate the woman from the story would turn it into a tale without deep symbolic or psychological value. The sexual context is precisely what gives such accounts their significance and their impact. The sexual (and, in some cases mentioned by Budd Hopkins, the sadomasochistic) component of the abduction stories provides an emotional "encoding" that makes them unforgettable.
Without the sexual context – without the stories of changelings, human midwives, intermarriage with the Gentry, of which we never hear in modern fairy tales – it is doubtful that the tradition about fairies would have survived through the ages. Nor is that true only of fairies: the most remarkable cases of sexual contact with nonhumans are not found in spicy saucer books, nor in fairy legends; they rest, safely stored away, in the archives of the Catholic Church. To find them, one must first learn Latin and gain entrance into the few libraries where these unique records are preserved. But the accounts one finds there make the Villas-Boas case and contemporary UFO books pale by comparison, as I believe the reader will agree before the end of this chapter.”
― Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact
When folklore becomes degraded to a minor literary form, as the fairy-faith was degraded to the fairy tales we know today, it natualy loses much of its content: precisely those "adult" details that cannot be allowed to remain in children's books. The direct result of the censorship of spicy details in these marvelous stories is that they become mere occasions for amazement. The Villas-Boas case is hardly appropriate for nursery-school reading, but to eliminate the woman from the story would turn it into a tale without deep symbolic or psychological value. The sexual context is precisely what gives such accounts their significance and their impact. The sexual (and, in some cases mentioned by Budd Hopkins, the sadomasochistic) component of the abduction stories provides an emotional "encoding" that makes them unforgettable.
Without the sexual context – without the stories of changelings, human midwives, intermarriage with the Gentry, of which we never hear in modern fairy tales – it is doubtful that the tradition about fairies would have survived through the ages. Nor is that true only of fairies: the most remarkable cases of sexual contact with nonhumans are not found in spicy saucer books, nor in fairy legends; they rest, safely stored away, in the archives of the Catholic Church. To find them, one must first learn Latin and gain entrance into the few libraries where these unique records are preserved. But the accounts one finds there make the Villas-Boas case and contemporary UFO books pale by comparison, as I believe the reader will agree before the end of this chapter.”
― Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact
“Are you in the habit of taking tea with anyone who approaches you in a foreign port?” He went on and snorted carelessly. “No wonder you were abducted so easily.”
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