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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
I know I'm in the minority here but this did not work for me.
I read this book within 3 days, I couldn't put the book down while reading it and felt in love with the story, it had so many beautiful descriptions about the scenery etc, I could feel the emotions of the characters so quickly and well, that's what made me fall in love with this book. I'm so excited to know that there will be a second book to this story which I will buy as soon as I can.
This is the first time I read a book in the second point of view. It's hard to get into at first, but the excitement of knowing how things will unfold made me keep reading. I think the reason it's hard to read is because of how much I--and probably everyone else--hated Ty. There's no way for me to accept him, because he's still a corrupted person, even if I sympathise with him. I'd really like to know what happens to them after the book. I definitely think it's Stockholm syndrome.
A great read for teens - very page-turny and tautly written - that puts the reader into conflict with both narrator and the antagonist. The setting is strongly evoked and the plotting is cleverly done through a second-person telling that maintains a high degree of tension whilst resisting the easy route of physical and sexual violence.
While finding the subject difficult this book did sweep me away. It gives an insight into how kidnapped people sometimes do start to identify with their captors, but the way it is done still leaves you very uncomfortable - for me this was important as i was worried it would be glamourising the situation.
It is not a book I would recommend to everyone but I think it definitely does have a powerful narrative voice and once I was reading I was compelled to continue to find out how it would end - a very important measure for me in any novel!
It is not a book I would recommend to everyone but I think it definitely does have a powerful narrative voice and once I was reading I was compelled to continue to find out how it would end - a very important measure for me in any novel!
Didn’t care for the story... didn’t care for the characters... just didn’t care at all...
This book was fantastic. I’m the kind of person who always has a bit of sympathy for the villain, though they might not deserve it at times and this book completely took advantage of that. By the end of the book I found that not only was I rooting for Ty and Gemma to be together but finding that I myself fell a little in love with him as well. Turning this whole book from a horrifying tale of stripping away someone from everything they’ve ever known to a love story about two broken star crossed lovers. This definitely gives you an inside taste of what Stockholm Syndrome might feel like and the conflicting feelings within the victim who doesn’t always feel like a victim.
Brilliantly done. A new plot idea (at least to me) and definitely worth the Honor. The story is fantastic and will be one to nag at you again and again.
Genre: survivalist, Stockholm syndrome, kidnapping
Summary: 16 year old Gemma is kidnapped from a Bangkok airport by Ty, a mysterious loner, who takes her to the middle of the Australian desert. Gemma tries to escape several times before realizing it's hopeless and learns that Ty isn't as bad as she would like to imagine.
Response: I...don't know how I feel about this book. I was torn between three and four stars. It's unsettling. It's creepy in a way too. The format was really interesting, with the protagonist writing a letter to her kidnapper. You really got a sense of how SHE felt about the whole thing.
And as the reader, you really begin to see the many layers in Ty. Did he do the wrong thing? Heck yes! Is he a bad guy? I don't know. He is a very complex character, well both are really. Even when Gemma is found, she doesn't fit in the same way she did before. We really get a sense of turmoil that she feels when she is forced back into the real world.
The setting is fantastic, the Australian outback. The descriptions were so vivid and perfect. You could really sense the beauty of the land and why it was important to Ty and eventually to Gemma.
Very interesting read.
Summary: 16 year old Gemma is kidnapped from a Bangkok airport by Ty, a mysterious loner, who takes her to the middle of the Australian desert. Gemma tries to escape several times before realizing it's hopeless and learns that Ty isn't as bad as she would like to imagine.
Response: I...don't know how I feel about this book. I was torn between three and four stars. It's unsettling. It's creepy in a way too. The format was really interesting, with the protagonist writing a letter to her kidnapper. You really got a sense of how SHE felt about the whole thing.
And as the reader, you really begin to see the many layers in Ty. Did he do the wrong thing? Heck yes! Is he a bad guy? I don't know. He is a very complex character, well both are really. Even when Gemma is found, she doesn't fit in the same way she did before. We really get a sense of turmoil that she feels when she is forced back into the real world.
The setting is fantastic, the Australian outback. The descriptions were so vivid and perfect. You could really sense the beauty of the land and why it was important to Ty and eventually to Gemma.
Very interesting read.