Queen of Contemporary

Stolen: A Letter to My Captor is a thrilling read and one that I greatly enjoyed.In an airport one day in August, Gemma is kidnapped. Held captive in the middle of nowhere, she has two options: survive until she can find a way to escape or give up and face an endless life of torture.Stolen deals with such a controversial topic so I really did wonder about how it would be dealt with. There were so many ways in which this could have been written and I think it was just right.Being written in second person, something that is completely new to me, I was strangely pleased to find that I really enjoyed it. It worked so well and I can't imagine it being written in any other way. I think a lot of novels could take a leaf out of this novels book and I'd like to read something similar in the future. Gemma, the protagonist, is hard to put into words. She was just herself and it was easy to put yourself into her shoes. Because of the way it was written, it seemed as if she was a lot closer than some protagonists that I've read about. I did feel sorry for her because being held captive in a foreign country would be a very traumatic experience.Even though Ty is supposed to be the bad guy, I actually really liked him. Christopher has taken all of peoples assumptions and flipped them on the head to create a sad and captivating tale. It was easy to tell that something was wrong with Ty. After all, who takes a girl against her will and flees to the Australian Outback? Behind the facade he was actually incredibly sweet and caring and a character that I really liked. Lucy Christopher has managed to write a believable setting that immediately interested me. I wanted to know more and was very impressed by the writing's descriptive nature.One of the things that I really loved about this book was that I could feel it. It was so easy to put yourself into Gemma's shoes and this was a tell tale sign that I really liked it.This was an emotional (yes, I was close to tears at a number of times) and profound read that I loved immensely. I'm looking forward to reading more by the author.