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Brilliant. Intriguing. Captivating.
Stolen is about a sixteen year old girl named Gemma, who gets taken at a Bangkok Airport by a man named Ty. The stranger is oddly familiar - there is something about him that Gemma recognizes but she doesn't know what. It isn't until she's alone with him in the middle of a reclusive desert in Australia that Gemma discovers how Ty knows her.
This is the second time I've read this book in a little over a year and I absolutely LOVED it the second time around. There was never a dull moment, even though I've read it before. Gemma's strong will to escape made the novel intriguing as we read her thoughts and dreams that instilled fear in her mind. Then there was Ty (the captor) and any reader (in my opinion) would sympathize with him because he NEVER once harmed Gemma. EVER. Yes, he kidnapped her - but he never once hurt her in any way except for when he drugged her in the beginning because he was kidnapping her. All Ty wanted from Gemma was love and towards the end of the book we see that that may be possible. But in light of circumstances - we never get to see how that relationship could progress.
Anyways, the romantic in me wanted Gemma to fall in love with Ty in the desert, away from technology and the noise of the city. But the logical side of me was saying "No, he kidnapped her...he should go to jail," which is understandable. I mean, who condones kidnapping? I definitely don't. But this story is more than just the issue of kidnapping. It's also about Stockholm Syndrome, which is a mindset where the captive begins to sympathize for their captor. Towards the end we see how Gemma has inner turmoil when it concerns Ty. She doesn't know what to think of him. She loves him. She hates him. But she knows that he wasn't a bad person (which I agree) but what he did was wrong. There are just so many mixed feelings that any reader who picks up this book will have just the same amount of inner turmoil as Gemma had. I believe that it also shows that not every situation is black and white but there are many shades of gray.
Okay. So. What you need to do is stop reading my ramblings and go get this book because words cannot convey how brilliantly written the story is.
- Emma Snow
Stolen is about a sixteen year old girl named Gemma, who gets taken at a Bangkok Airport by a man named Ty. The stranger is oddly familiar - there is something about him that Gemma recognizes but she doesn't know what. It isn't until she's alone with him in the middle of a reclusive desert in Australia that Gemma discovers how Ty knows her.
This is the second time I've read this book in a little over a year and I absolutely LOVED it the second time around. There was never a dull moment, even though I've read it before. Gemma's strong will to escape made the novel intriguing as we read her thoughts and dreams that instilled fear in her mind. Then there was Ty (the captor) and any reader (in my opinion) would sympathize with him because he NEVER once harmed Gemma. EVER. Yes, he kidnapped her - but he never once hurt her in any way except for when he drugged her in the beginning because he was kidnapping her. All Ty wanted from Gemma was love and towards the end of the book we see that that may be possible. But in light of circumstances - we never get to see how that relationship could progress.
Anyways, the romantic in me wanted Gemma to fall in love with Ty in the desert, away from technology and the noise of the city. But the logical side of me was saying "No, he kidnapped her...he should go to jail," which is understandable. I mean, who condones kidnapping? I definitely don't. But this story is more than just the issue of kidnapping. It's also about Stockholm Syndrome, which is a mindset where the captive begins to sympathize for their captor. Towards the end we see how Gemma has inner turmoil when it concerns Ty. She doesn't know what to think of him. She loves him. She hates him. But she knows that he wasn't a bad person (which I agree) but what he did was wrong. There are just so many mixed feelings that any reader who picks up this book will have just the same amount of inner turmoil as Gemma had. I believe that it also shows that not every situation is black and white but there are many shades of gray.
Okay. So. What you need to do is stop reading my ramblings and go get this book because words cannot convey how brilliantly written the story is.
- Emma Snow