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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
Stockholm then up until now. Will do a review. ( 2020)
https://thequeenreads.wordpress.com/2020/07/31/the-queens-book-talk-stolen-by-lucy-christopher/
https://thequeenreads.wordpress.com/2020/07/31/the-queens-book-talk-stolen-by-lucy-christopher/
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Very unique. Good read. I don't know why it took me as long as it did for me to finish.
From the way this book started, I wasn't really sure I would like it. It's one of those books that I enjoyed reading t, by utility the very end, there isn't much of a pull factor that makes me never want to put it down. I liked the way she ended the book, and I thought the format was interesting as well.
I read this book for the first time 10 years ago when I was 15 years old. Now I’m 25 and I have a completely different perspective.
The first time I read this book I was around the age that Gemma is and now reading it I’m the age that Ty is. I can remember the first time reading this book, and so desperately wanting Gemma to just get over it and fall in love with Ty. I very much fell victim to the Stockholm syndrome that Gemma was experiencing. I remember rooting for him, wanting him to turn things around and be good. I actually wanted them to be in love and happy, together in the Australian wilderness. I wanted his vision to come to life for them.
It tells you so much about my age, and how the book really didn’t what it was supposed to - put me in Gemma’s mindset.
But now as an adult, who has lived life and knows what mental illness is and what it looks like, I can look at the story and see such a broken human being. I can see that the bigger picture. The first time I read this book you could probably count on my heart racing when I thought that there was a moment they were finally going to get along and this time around my heart was racing with anxiety of waiting for the moment for her to break free.
Both times I ended with a feeling of hoping there is a better life for Ty. He 100% deserves to be in jail for what he’d done. But just like Gemma at the end she hopes that when he is released that he will grow straight. I like to imagine he returns to his wild land with the Separates, his chickens, and his stars.
The first time I read this book I was around the age that Gemma is and now reading it I’m the age that Ty is. I can remember the first time reading this book, and so desperately wanting Gemma to just get over it and fall in love with Ty. I very much fell victim to the Stockholm syndrome that Gemma was experiencing. I remember rooting for him, wanting him to turn things around and be good. I actually wanted them to be in love and happy, together in the Australian wilderness. I wanted his vision to come to life for them.
It tells you so much about my age, and how the book really didn’t what it was supposed to - put me in Gemma’s mindset.
But now as an adult, who has lived life and knows what mental illness is and what it looks like, I can look at the story and see such a broken human being. I can see that the bigger picture. The first time I read this book you could probably count on my heart racing when I thought that there was a moment they were finally going to get along and this time around my heart was racing with anxiety of waiting for the moment for her to break free.
Both times I ended with a feeling of hoping there is a better life for Ty. He 100% deserves to be in jail for what he’d done. But just like Gemma at the end she hopes that when he is released that he will grow straight. I like to imagine he returns to his wild land with the Separates, his chickens, and his stars.
Robada cuenta la historia de Gemma una chica inglesa de diesiseis años que conoce a Ty, un extraño quien le invita un café en el aeropuerto. Por alguna razón él luce familiar, hay algo en su penetrantes ojos azules. Ellos se sientan, toman sus bebidas y platican un poco hasta que Gemma comienza a sentirse un poco extraña. Él la ha drogado y la ha secuestrado. Cuando despierta, se encuentra en una cabaña en medio del desierto australiano, no hay nada mas que kilómetros de arena anaranjada y un calor abrasador.
A partir de ahí comienza la lucha de escapar de su secuestrador, porque naturalmente, Gemma lo odia y le teme a partes iguales, pero conforme el libro va avanzando la relación cambia también y eso es un gran problema con las emociones de ella.
"¿Por cuanto tiempo me tendrás aquí?" Pregunte.
Tu te encogiste de hombros. "Para siempre, claro."
Mi amor por este libro es infinito por muchas razones. Una de ellas es porque esta tan bien escrito, toca tus fibras mas sensibles y te rompe el corazón. La historia te conduce en un viaje al mundo del Síndrome de Estocolmo y el arte de la autora de hacerte sentir con ese síndrome.
Los personajes (Ty y Gemma) son geniales, Ty es mi personaje masculino favorito en la literatura juvenil por mucho. Es complejo, esta confundido y es hostil, pero también es gentil y amoroso, es un estuche de monerías el muchacho.
Al principio estaba algo frustrada con Gemma, porque estoy tan acostumbrada a leer chicas-patea-traseros que siempre se salen con la suya y que en esta ocasión ella es incapaz de hacer mas que llorar, tratar de escapar innumerables veces o esperar un milagro, fue lo que hizo que me gustara tanto esta historia.
Me atrapo desde el principio, es la carta mas larga y meticulosa que he leído, la forma en que Gemma se dirige a Ty en segunda persona es bastante original (puntos extras por eso) y además hace que te metas en la piel de la protagonista y no solo este te espectador. Las emociones son palpables.
Robada te comerá, masticará y escupirá para dejarte mirando la portada del libro, sintiendo el calor del desierto y con la cabeza llena de ideas que necesitaras unas horas para procesar lo que acabas de leer.
Sin duda de esas historias que se quedan contigo por mucho tiempo.
Huh. I definitely think this was overhyped but I couldn’t stop reading it.
The subject matter of the young woman as kidnap victim is one that just does not sit well with me. What is the point of these types of stories, exactly? Is there anyone alive who can not empathize and whose heart does not break for these people? Is it not pretty obvious that the kidnapper is going to have some good qualities (as does every person). In their worst forms, these stories run the risk of being voyeuristic and titillating and serve to re-victimize people who have actually lived through these situations, although that was not at all the case here. Really what do we learn from these stories? I don’t know, it just seems to be a tragic story written down without much wisdom or knowledge gained.
The characters in this story lacked depth, and I felt it hard to believe that she would feel any attachment to Ty, it just was not that well explored. I'm giving it three stars because I did feel it was a well told story and I was compelled to finish, I definitely wanted to know where everyone ended up although the ending is somewhat ambiguous.
The characters in this story lacked depth, and I felt it hard to believe that she would feel any attachment to Ty, it just was not that well explored. I'm giving it three stars because I did feel it was a well told story and I was compelled to finish, I definitely wanted to know where everyone ended up although the ending is somewhat ambiguous.
Welp. I sure didn’t expect that.
The book was very interesting though, waiting to see what happened next. I enjoyed how it was written as a letter to her captor as well.
The book was very interesting though, waiting to see what happened next. I enjoyed how it was written as a letter to her captor as well.
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes