Stolen is a creepy and intense, but good book. It is about a girl named Gemma, who has had a man named Ty stalking her since she was about eight years old, and he finally kidnaps her in the Bangkok airport. The obsessive, probably mentally ill man takes the 16-year-old to a deserted place that he built in the desert of Australia and expects her to love him.
There aren’t very many characters in the book. The main character, Gemma, is stubborn, independent, and a city-girl, who doesn’t enjoy the city all that much. The supporting character is Ty, a man in his late twenties, who is tan, handsome, strong, an artist of rocks and natural landscape, patient, a horrible speller, and nature/desert-loving. Gemma’s parents are talked about or appear a few times in the book. They seem to love Gemma in a very subtle way, and are very work-driven.
I’m guessing that the time era of the book, Stolen, is from around the late 1990’s-now (2011). It either takes place in the city of London (in flashbacks that Gemma has), the Bangkok airport, or a desert in the middle of nowhere, Australia. It is written in third person, which is interesting.
I would recommend Stolen to some people, but not others. It is a very good, complex, and interesting book that makes the reader think hard about what they are reading.
Lucy Nelson
9/11/11
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