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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 th 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
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Beyond good and evil,
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Stockholm syndrome (the phenomenon in which hostages or abducted people begin to have positive feelings towards their captors) has been a controversial subject for nearly 40 years. It certainly weaves its way through Stolen, which takes the form of a letter from Gemma, a British teenager, to Ty, who kidnaps her at Bangkok airport and takes her to the Australian desert. My immediate reaction was to note the similarities between this and the film/novel Walkabout; in both books the outback seems to have a life of its own (shades also of Thomas Hardy). But ultimately this is a backdrop; the spine of the book is the compelling relationship (the only word I can use, although it's freighted with inappropriate connotations) between Gemma and her captor. Notions of right and wrong, good and evil, victims and wrongdoers have to be left to one side; Lucy Christopher knows the moral universe is almost entirely composed of greys.
35 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Outstanding debut novel that deserves high praise,
By CJay (England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Stolen (Paperback)
This is an incredibly moving story that played on my mind for days after reading. There is so much I love about it. Rarely do I experience total empathy with a main charater when I'm reading a book but in Stolen, I was with Gemma throughout, experiencing each sense, each emotion with her exactly as she did.
As well as a book about one girl's struggle to escape from an endlessly barren landscape and the strangely alluring kidnapper who brings her there, it is a paean to the intensity and beauty of the Australian desert, about which the author is clearly very familiar. Stolen is a modern wonder in teen fiction, standing head and shoulders above a lot of its flimsy contemporaries. Lucy Christopher is a terrific writer with a glaringly bright future ahead of her. Beg, borrow or steal Stolen. You will not regret it.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Stolen is LOVE-NOT Stockholm Syndrome!!,
This review is from: Stolen (Paperback)
I only heard good things about Stolen. So naturally I was anxious to read it. So when we contacted Chicken House Publishing and they allowed me to review it, I was ecstatic. Not only did I get a free book, but I got a GOOD book. I was amazed at how much I loved this book. The story was so captivating. I was moved.
Stolen was written in second person, which was a new narrative to me but one I enjoyed all the same. Lucy Christopher has written this as a letter that Gemma our 16 year old narrator writes to her kidnapper Ty. Being able to read it in this form gave me more of an understanding as to what Gemma was going through, from the time she was 'Stolen' from Bangkok Airport, right through her ordeal with Ty, the relationship that was slowly emerging between them. Both of them are two very different characters, Gemma is surprisingly strong and mature for a 16 year old. Ty, is ultimately not evil but a troubled person who's only love is the vast land of the Australian outback. Gemma has love, she has a family, she has friends. Ty does not. He's a lonely sort, and has been in love with Gemma for almost 3 years but has been following her for 6. He wants to share his love of the land with Gemma. Not only are Gemma and Ty two major characters (in fact for most of the book, they're the only characters), but the Australian outback is so ripe with description in this book that it almost becomes a character itself. My heart and my head were so torn when I read this book. I wanted to hate Ty, for what he did. For everything, but my heart kept saying no, he's not all bad; he's just starved of love and lonely. He's sometimes portrayed as a vulnerable sort of guy, but then scary as well in some scenes at the start of the book. I'm not condoning kidnapping, but when you read this book, you can see why Ty did what he did. I only wish this had a happier ending. Eventually my heart was won over by Ty, and it was because of a particular scene towards the end of the book in his painting shed. During that scene and after it, was the moment I realised I was in love with Ty. Anyone who has read this book will know the scene I am talking about. If you haven't, well I'll leave it to you to find out. You won't be disappointed. That's the moment you fall in love with Ty, and the moment Gemma realises she does in fact 'need' him, and the land. Anyway, I hope this review is sufficient. And I urge everyone to pick up Stolen: A Letter to my captor and read it. Find out for yourself. In the end, I'd just like to say that I'm definitely in love with this book, and I am definitely NOT suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. Read it. It's fabulous.
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