Title: Stolen: A Letter To My Captor.
Author: Lucy Christopher
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Publisher: Chicken House Ltd
Publication Date: May 4th 2009
Hardcover: 304 pages
Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars.
Synopsis:
It happened like this. I was stolen from an airport. Taken from everything I knew, everything I was used to. Taken to sand and heat, dirt and danger. And he expected me to love him.
This is my story.
A letter from nowhere.
Sixteen-year-old Gemma is kidnapped from Bangkok airport and taken to the Australian Outback. This wild and desolate landscape becomes almost a character in the book, so vividly is it described. Ty, her captor, is no stereotype. He is young, fit and completely gorgeous. This new life in the wilderness has been years in the planning. He loves only her, wants only her. Under the hot glare of the Australian sun, cut off from the world outside, can the force of his love make Gemma love him back?
The story takes the form of a letter, written by Gemma to Ty, reflecting on those strange and disturbing months in the outback. Months when the lines between love and obsession, and love and dependency, blur until they don't exist--almost.
My Review:
This book has an emotional grip on me. I loved it because I can’t stop thinking about it.
It's told in second person narrative as a letter from a girl (Gemma) to a man (Tyler) who kidnapped her after her eventual release.
I never thought a book could make me fall in love with the deserts. Can't imagine how Lucy Christopher managed to describe deserts and abduction this beautifully.
By the end of the novel, i felt like I had Stockholm syndrome myself!
Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars.
Synopsis:
It happened like this. I was stolen from an airport. Taken from everything I knew, everything I was used to. Taken to sand and heat, dirt and danger. And he expected me to love him.
This is my story.
A letter from nowhere.
Sixteen-year-old Gemma is kidnapped from Bangkok airport and taken to the Australian Outback. This wild and desolate landscape becomes almost a character in the book, so vividly is it described. Ty, her captor, is no stereotype. He is young, fit and completely gorgeous. This new life in the wilderness has been years in the planning. He loves only her, wants only her. Under the hot glare of the Australian sun, cut off from the world outside, can the force of his love make Gemma love him back?
The story takes the form of a letter, written by Gemma to Ty, reflecting on those strange and disturbing months in the outback. Months when the lines between love and obsession, and love and dependency, blur until they don't exist--almost.
My Review:
This book has an emotional grip on me. I loved it because I can’t stop thinking about it.
It's told in second person narrative as a letter from a girl (Gemma) to a man (Tyler) who kidnapped her after her eventual release.
I never thought a book could make me fall in love with the deserts. Can't imagine how Lucy Christopher managed to describe deserts and abduction this beautifully.
By the end of the novel, i felt like I had Stockholm syndrome myself!
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