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Stolen by Lucy Christopher
4.0

I was recommended this book by a friend and I’m so glad she told me to read it! I was engaged the entire time and I loved to read about a place I had never been to before.

Someone else has already said this, but Lucy Christopher is a brilliant author and knows exactly how to write a character that we, as readers, are supposed to hate but can’t help but like them, too. In the end, it’s hard not to sympathize with Ty, but what he did was wrong, without a doubt. And I’m so glad Gemma knows this in the end. Like Gemma says, if they could have only met later in life and not when she was still a minor. He would have just been a stalker, which is a lot better than being a kidnapper. The ending was perfect for the book and it makes you realize just how smart and self-aware the main character is, which isn’t the case in most YA novels.