Stolen by Lucy Christopher

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.


Told in a letter to her captor by 16-year-old Gemma, Stolen explores the influence that a really wild and remote space can have on the inner development of a young woman.
Gemma, a British city-living teenager, is kidnapped while on holiday with her parents. Her kidnapper, Ty, takes her to the wild land of outback Australia. To Gemma’s city-eyes, the landscape is harsh and unforgiving and there are no other signs of human life for hundreds of kilometres in every direction. Here, there is no escape. Gemma must learn to deal with her predicament, or die trying to fight it.
Ty, a young man, has other ideas for her. His childhood experience of living in outback Australia has forever changed the way he sees things. But he too has been living in the city; Gemma’s city. Unlike Gemma, however, he has had enough. In outback Australia he sees an opportunity for a new kind of life; a life more connected to the earth. He has been watching and learning about Gemma for many years; when he kidnaps her, his plan finally begins to take shape.
But Ty is not a stereotypical kidnapper and, over time, Gemma comes to see Ty in a new light, a light in which he is something more sensitive. The mysteries of Ty, and the mystery of her new life, start to take hold. She begins to feel something for her kidnapper when he wakes screaming in the night. Over the time spent with her captor, Gemma’s appreciation of him develops …but is this real love, or Stockholm Syndrome?



The synopsis grabbed my attention right away. The whole idea of this book was just so intriguing. I loved the point of view that Lucy Christopher wrote this in. "You saw me. You did this. You did that." It was so different from all the books I've read. The way the letter (book) is written, makes you feel as if you were Gemma, experiencing everything that she went through.
This book basically revolved around two characters: Gemma, this sweet, innocent girl and Ty, this two faced, good looking, young man. I grew bipolar feelings towards Ty. Some parts made me pity him, while other times I was furious. I loved Gemma's character all the way through. When she was scared, so was I. I didn't want her to get hurt.
I do not regret buying this book. I'll definitely be reading this book again soon. I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to read something a little different.

Rating: 5/5