Stolen

"Stolen" by Lisa Christopher
Paperback: 301 pages
Publisher: Chicken House Ltd. (May 4, 2009)

Book Description:
Sixteen year old Gemma is kidapped from Bangkok airport and taken to the Australian Outback.  This wild and desolate landscape becomes almost a character in the book, so vividly is it described.  Ty, her captor, is no stereotype.  He is young, fit and completely gorgeous.  This new life in the wilderness has been years in the planning.  He loves only her, wants only her.  Under the hot glare of the Australian sun, cut off from the world outside, can the force of his love make Gemma love him back?  The story takes the form of a letter, written by Gemma to Ty, reflecting on those strange and disturbing months in the outback.  Months when the lines between love and obsession, and love and dependency, blur until they don't exist - almost.

Just started and finished reading "Stolen" by Lucy Christopher yesterday.  I couldn't put the book down!  It's considered a young adult book, but personally I enjoy those kind.

"Stolen" is about a 16 year old girl that gets abducted by a man in an airport.  He drugs her, then takes her to Australia in the middle of desert nowhere.  The book is written as a letter to her abductor recounting the events as she remembers them.

The reader will completely follow the feelings of the girl and come to the same conclusions as she does in the end.  The abductor doesn't want to harm the girl, he wants her to love him forever.  You see how someone can start out as being this scary person to someone that you can understand and even love.  This brings about the idea of Stockholm Syndrome in kidnapping victims.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and highly recommend it.