Details Containing Books Stolen: A Letter to My Captor
| Title | : | Stolen: A Letter to My Captor |
| Author | : | Lucy Christopher |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 304 pages |
| Published | : | May 4th 2009 by Chicken House Ltd |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Contemporary. Fiction. Romance. Realistic Fiction. Thriller. Mystery |
Lucy Christopher
Paperback | Pages: 304 pages Rating: 3.92 | 64639 Users | 8059 Reviews
Explanation Concering Books Stolen: A Letter to My Captor
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.Particularize Books To Stolen: A Letter to My Captor
| Original Title: | Stolen: A Letter to My Captor |
| ISBN: | 1906427135 (ISBN13: 9781906427139) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Gemma Toombs, Ty MacFarlane |
| Setting: | Australia |
| Literary Awards: | Children's Book Council of Australia Award Nominee for Older Readers Book of the Year (2010), Michael L. Printz Award Nominee (2011), Prime Minister's |
| Literary Awards: | Nominee for Young Adult Fiction (2010), Branford Boase Award (2010), The Inky Awards for Gold Inky (2010) Lincoln Award Nominee (2015), Cybils Award Nominee for Young Adult Fiction (2010), Carnegie Medal Nominee (2010) |
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Ratings: 3.92 From 64639 Users | 8059 ReviewsCritique Containing Books Stolen: A Letter to My Captor
Stolen is such a singular reading experience that its difficult to decide how I feel about it.Gemma is a sixteen year old English girl kidnapped by Ty and taken into the Western Australian outback where she is held prisoner.I had to give this book five stars for several reasons. One of the reasons is because it was so fantastically well written. Beautiful, touching, heart breaking and real. Christopher doesn't spare on the details both good and bad. Never before have I felt a book to be so real,Very different from what I expected and much better!I expected this to be a Captive Romance, where the Hero takes the heroine and treats her like he owns her, she is attracted to him from the start so she falls in love with him and they eventually live happily ever after. Those books may are pretty popular though pretty messed up, but as long as the heroine is attracted to the Hero and doesnt actual fight him off it can all end up ok (in a romance novel). However this book was so different than
When I was a teenager, I remember watching a movie with my family and the couple onscreen kissed for the first time and of course five seconds later were sleeping together. My dad, trying to keep the morality of four teenage girls intact, complained about movies always doing that, making you root for something you didn't believe in. I remember thinking "it's just a movie; you're supposed to want that," because I had wanted it.Christopher is a smart woman. She realizes this power, that as an
I just had a copy of STOLEN by Lucy Christopher put into my hands at ALA, and I am definitely, definitely sending a quote for them to use for the paperback edition. Its a YA novel about a girl who is kidnapped from an airport by a crazy guy and taken to a shack in the Australian outback. The novel features1) crazy guy2) camels3) strong heroine4) poisonous snakes! (did you know that Australia is the only continent where species of poisonous snakes outnumbers non-poisonous ones?)5) hallucinating6)
This book completely reaffirmed my fascination with the beautiful land that is Australia.But the people who live there seem to want everyone to think it's a lot like this:Or this:Or even this:Gemma, just a regular 16 year old school girl, has been captured by a handsome and alluring young Australian man named Ty. Although Gemma seems to think so, it never feels like she's in any imminent danger, from Ty at least. From the environment - yes.The stakes and suspense don't seem that high, as I fully
What would you do if you're abducted to the middle of nowhere? I hate deserts. I winced when Christopher described about the heat and the rawness of the desert. Why are we even talking about deserts?Why?Because in reality it's actually beautiful. It shows the vastness of the world, the rawness, the emptiness and the loneliness. I read this short story called the Tears of the Desert by Paulo Coelho. It's a story about this man who listens everyday to the sobbing of the desert and a missionary
You saw me before I saw you. [image error]This book was just WOW!I fell in love with the characters but mostly with the writing style.To be more specific , this book is written like a letter,a letter to her captor, which means that she is refering to him.This is very beautiful because the reader takes part in the story and the book is alive.Gemma never thought that a friendly stranger could harm her.The story begins when she is in a coffee shop at the airport.There she spots a familiar face but
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