Review : Stolen : A Letter to My Captor by Lucy Christopher

Tittle : Stolen : A Letter to My Captor

Author : Lucy Christopher

Publisher : Scholastic, Inc

ISBN : 9780545361118

Date Published : February 1st 2011

Gemma, 16, is on layover at Bangkok Airport, en route with her parents to a vacation in Vietnam. She steps away for just a second, to get a cup of coffee. Ty - rugged, tan, too old, oddly familiar - pays for Gemma's drink. And drugs it. They talk. Their hands touch. And before Gemma knows what's happening, Ty takes her. Steals her away. The unknowing object of a long obsession, Gemma has been kidnapped by her stalker and brought to the desolate Australian Outback.

Stolen is her gripping story of survival, of how she has to come to terms with her living nightmare - or die trying to fight it. 

My thought :

 

God, my heart...

Stolen is the most unique book I’ve ever read so far. It really is written as a letter, and it breaks my heart.

When Ty stole Gemma and brought her to that desert, I actually hate him. He forced Gemma against her will, drugged her, and brought her to nowhere with nothing except him and his makeshift property. He did sounds crazy back then, and he looked emotionally unstabble too. But soon I discover that he was just lonely, he needed escape and company, someone who’d understand him and his love to his land, but he did it all wrong He had loved Gemma for years before he stole her, and he had prepared all of their live before he stole her too. I wonder If only he loved her the right way, the story might be not too hurt to read *bawls again*.

The story itself is unique too, during the days Gemma lived in desert with Ty, the author successfully makes our opinion of Ty shift, he wasn’t the crazy kidnapper anymore. I can’t really describe it all because it’s too much, the emotions are too much, and right when I write this, my emotion itself hasn’t come back straight again either, it’s still flying to every kind of sadness and heartbreak, because Ty’s story was nothing like you expected. That guy had been through a lot.

I still can’t accept that ending entirely though, but I think that’s the right ending, because otherwise it’d be fake. This book is so perfect in every way. It doesn’t contain poetic or beautiful words, just innocence that will rip your soul more.

It has been so long since I cried like a baby after I finished a book, It actually feels good, and I’m really glad I read this book because it gives me glimpse to some dark parts of people’s heart and mind.

I recommend this book to people that want to learn to value and to be grateful with their life.

Love, Rose

My rating : 5 stolen stars