shannonsaid 's review for:

Stolen by Lucy Christopher

2.0

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2.5/5

There wasn't anything I specifically liked about this book, but nothing I specifically didn't like, either. It was just...okay. I know. Lots of insight on my part.

I don't feel like it was bad, I just didn't think it was entirely convincing. Told from the perspective of a young woman who was kidnapped by an unknown male and transplanted to the Australian desert, while

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initially she fights against her kidnapper, eventually she falls to a predictable Stockholm Syndrome trope and falls for her kidnapper.

I could have seen that coming from the book's onset, but even so I wouldn't say that prediction ruined anything for me. I will say, though, while

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not insta-love, the reciprocated attraction seemed super fast.

Above all else, the sheer creepiness of Ty was ONE...not okay. TWO...masked under that same Edward Cullen "troubled and sexy" facade. And THREE...never really explained! I kept expecting the end of the book to actually explain things, but no. He had no real character revelation, and what was there was lazy and half-done. He never even really explained why he kidnapped her in the first place other than "Oh hey your parents were kind of dicky sometimes."

Some of the passages were beautiful, elegantly described. The premise itself, while not overly original, wasn't terrible. I just kept expecting something more. Something somewhere just needed to go there, whether it was to reveal some twist about Ty's history, the reasoning for the kidnapping...something. And maybe it would have been a more compelling ending if

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Gemma's testimony

would have been left ambiguous, which is where I thought it was headed. Unfortunately the last page just outright told us what was going to happen. Whatever. At least

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she wasn't going to be stupid about it and claim she was willing.