Stolen by Lucy Christopher
I saw this one day at the bookstore with my daughter. It was on one of those YA Must Read tables, so I read the back cover. The premise sounded good, so I bought it.
In a nutshell, Gemma is travelling with her parents. They have a layover in Bangkok, where she meets a guy at the airport coffee shop. His name is Ty. Ty drugs her coffee, and kidnaps Gemma, whisking her off to the middle of nowhere Australia. Turns out, Ty has been stalking Gemma since he was 19 and she was 10, which is not creepy at all. *sarcasm* She's now 16, so he stalked her for six years, all the while building a house in the middle of nowhere. He was convinced she would ultimately fall in love with him. Sadly, I know it happens, and it did here too. She does manage to get away, and this book is Gemma's letter to Ty about the time he had her.
Really, this sounded good. I just wish it was as good as it sounded. I was more than 200 pages in before I got to the "I can't put this book down" point. No one should have to be that invested in a book for it to be good. I have to wonder how it won so many book awards, as boring as it was. I am happy to say though, there was nothing sexual, so I can let my daughter read this. Only a couple of f-bombs dropped, if you have a problem with that. Seriously though, I wouldn't waste my time.
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