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The Stolen One
by
Suzanne Crowley (Goodreads Author)
No one wanted you. But I did.
Kat's true identity is a secret, even from her. All she has ever known are Grace and Anna and their small village. Kat wants more--more than hours spent embroidering finery for wealthy ladies and more than Christian, the gentle young farmer courting her.
But there are wolves outside, Grace warns. Waiting, with their eyes glowing in the dark . ....more
Kat's true identity is a secret, even from her. All she has ever known are Grace and Anna and their small village. Kat wants more--more than hours spent embroidering finery for wealthy ladies and more than Christian, the gentle young farmer courting her.
But there are wolves outside, Grace warns. Waiting, with their eyes glowing in the dark . ....more
Hardcover, 416 pages
Published
June 30th 2009
by Greenwillow Books
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crowley drew me into her world with kat's
authentic voice. i love historicals, and it's
so refreshing to read one for the young adult
genre. the author brings the world alive for
the reader, from the beautiful english countryside
to the grand court of elizabeth I, filled with
political intrigue and clandestine romances.
kat was a delightful heroine to read, far
from perfect, but determined and passionate.
i was sorry when the book ended. i wish i had
written this!
authentic voice. i love historicals, and it's
so refreshing to read one for the young adult
genre. the author brings the world alive for
the reader, from the beautiful english countryside
to the grand court of elizabeth I, filled with
political intrigue and clandestine romances.
kat was a delightful heroine to read, far
from perfect, but determined and passionate.
i was sorry when the book ended. i wish i had
written this!
Jun 28, 2011
Karen
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4 of 5 stars
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young-adult,
historical-england
I am not someone who is too wrapped up with the Tudors, so I didn't know much about the time period but still found this book very interesting. Plus, it made me do some research to learn about that time period which was fun. It looked at the possibility that Catherine Parr's daughter, who in history has been reported as dying at the age of two, really lived, taken away by a servant and raised in the country. Kat has always believed that there is something more to her life than what she has right...more
Title: The Stolen One
Author: Suzanne Crowley
Series: N/A
Rating: ★★★★☆
Summary: Set during the lush Elizabethan period, this smart, sensual novel drips with intrigue, period detail, and drama, as it follows a girl from the English countryside who travels to London to uncover the secret of who she really is.
Review: This was a pretty good book. I had my doubts at the beginning, but Crowley pulled through for me.
Things I Loved: The writing style and dialogue of the characters is perfection. I actually...more
Author: Suzanne Crowley
Series: N/A
Rating: ★★★★☆
Summary: Set during the lush Elizabethan period, this smart, sensual novel drips with intrigue, period detail, and drama, as it follows a girl from the English countryside who travels to London to uncover the secret of who she really is.
Review: This was a pretty good book. I had my doubts at the beginning, but Crowley pulled through for me.
Things I Loved: The writing style and dialogue of the characters is perfection. I actually...more
Even though set in Elizabethan England, heroine Kat Bab is modern in her determination to discover her true identity and parentage, her desire to live a "big life" away from the village, and in her struggle over whom to love. Crowley's research of the times is evident in the vivid descriptions of the village and court life, especially the embroidery and clothing details. I solved the mystery of her identity much earlier than Kat did, and so was a little surprised that it took her so long, but I...more
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I loved this book! There are so many novels about Elizabeth I and so I found the unique storyline of "the stolen one" to be quite intriguing. Loved the ending
For as long as she can remember, sixteen-year-old Katherine Bab has lived in the English countryside with her adoptive mother, Grace, and Grace's daughter, Anna. Kat has always longed to know the identities of her birth parents, but Grace has always refused to tell her who they are, or give her any more information than frequent comments about how she inherited the worst qualities of her parents. And despite the love of a young farmer named Christian, who is the son of her adoptive mother's brot...more
Kat is a talent young embroiderer who lives a quiet life in the country with her mother, Grace and sister, Anna. The three women make a meager living stitching beautiful clothing sold to the wealthy in London. In addition, Grace is the local healer. Between the healing and the fact that the three women live together without a man, the locals whisper of witchcraft amongst themselves.
But a dark secret does reside in the household, for Grace has hinted many times that Kat is not her daughter, and w...more
But a dark secret does reside in the household, for Grace has hinted many times that Kat is not her daughter, and w...more
This book is really good, and my third Historical Fiction book in Quarter 2 . This book is about a girl named Katherine, or Kat for short. She lives with her dumb (not the stupid kind) foster sister Ann and her foster mother, Grace. All three girls were master embroiderers! When Grace died of cancer, Kat and Ann move to London and soon Kat's beautiful embroidery attracts the fierce Queen Elizabeth, and the wolves of the court...
“Nobody wanted you, but I did,” that’s what Grace said when she foun...more
“Nobody wanted you, but I did,” that’s what Grace said when she foun...more
Katherine isn't the most likable heroine, nor is any of the romance in this satisfying (as in you want the characters to end up together). Anna is the only one who truly is innocent in this whole mess, unwillingly pulled into Kat's pursuit of her birthright and wrongly hurt along the way.
But this isn't one of those stories that you read to become attached to the characters. You read it because it is an interesting "what if" historical-fiction. Unfortunately, I cannot tell my Readers what the "wh...more
But this isn't one of those stories that you read to become attached to the characters. You read it because it is an interesting "what if" historical-fiction. Unfortunately, I cannot tell my Readers what the "wh...more
Kat was raised by a woman not her mother (Grace), who claimed no one wanted Kat. Grace taught Kat how to embroider until her skills grew proficient enough to earn a good living for their family. Grace's own daughter, Anna, is deaf but can read lips and is as close to Kat as a real sister. Christian, a handsome shepherd boy living next door, asks Kat to marry him, but Kat feels she cannot answer him until she finds out the truth of her parents and her birth. When Grace dies, Kat moves to the capi...more
In the English countryside Kat spends her days embroidering fine clothes to sell and dreaming of the royal life of Queen Elizabeth. Whenever her mind has a free moment, Kat thinks about how she would give anything to know who she really is and how she ended up in that cottage with Grace and her daughter Anna. When a stranger seems to have the answers that Kat's always craved, she'd go anywhere and do whatever it takes to find them for herself.
This is one fun piece of young adult historical ficti...more
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I was kinda forced to read this book, so um I'm not reading much...
Katherine (Kat) is an alluring red haired girl living with her adoptive mother Grace and Grace's daughter Anna in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1500s). Grace has taught her daughters the trade of embroidery and Kat is particularly gifted at it (her gowns have been sold in the best shops in London). Yet Kat remains discontented and wants to know her true heritage. She is constantly puzzled by hints dropped by Grace about how she takes after her mother or father in some way, yet G...more
I actually really liked this book, but I'm not sure I know why so my review is kind of not very articulate. In the beginning I was afraid it would be full of back stabbing and cruelty but while it is a sad story in many ways it isn't all because of the things people do to each other, a lot of it is just brought on by situations and people's stations in life.
Kat has no idea who she is. All she knows is that Grace has raised her along with her own daughter Anna. When Grace dies Kat leaves everyth...more
Kat has no idea who she is. All she knows is that Grace has raised her along with her own daughter Anna. When Grace dies Kat leaves everyth...more
This is probably the most predictable story I have ever read and just by reading the blurb you can already guess that Kat 'The Stolen One' is somehow connected to the Queen especially that Kat has 'red alluring hair' just like the Queen so that just gives away the whole plot so there was no twist really or maybe a really minor one.
Right from the start I found it really hard to adapt to the story and mainly because nothing seemed to be happening in the first two hundred pages apart from a long in...more
Right from the start I found it really hard to adapt to the story and mainly because nothing seemed to be happening in the first two hundred pages apart from a long in...more
This book was a bit slow at first, but was well worth it. The characters, set in England at the English Court (during the reign of Elizabeth I) were well evolved, and believable. The author had great skill to immerse me in the smells, sights, and sounds of 16th century England. You can imagine yourself in Katherine's shoes, and the agonizing choices she has to make, and that universal need to know who and what you are, that wanting to belong. Reminiscent of Neal Stephenson, and his Baroque Cycle...more
This book is another example of historical fiction that reads a bit like a video game: we are given a main character purely for the purposes of exploring the world of the story.
This story doesn't accurately reflect Elizabethan England. Adopted commoner Kat would likely have simply married the pear farmer after the death of her guardian, not dressed in an expensive gown and dragged her hearing-impaired foster sister to London. Two wealthy-looking, pretty young girls, traveling alone at this time?...more
This story doesn't accurately reflect Elizabethan England. Adopted commoner Kat would likely have simply married the pear farmer after the death of her guardian, not dressed in an expensive gown and dragged her hearing-impaired foster sister to London. Two wealthy-looking, pretty young girls, traveling alone at this time?...more
I had some high hopes for this books- I love the time period of Elizabethan England and the plot itself sounded interesting, but reading it, the entire time I just felt very let down. The plot was very slow and didn't seem to have any real point, even as the story went on, and the entire storyline had the question of "So what?" hanging over it. I found that the story wasn't interesting enough to keep me entertained or really to care what happened to the characters, so I was bored very easily. Th...more
A fairly engrossing story set in Elizabethan England, one of those stories with gritty details about everyday life as well as plenty of descriptions of fashion and embroidery. There's a bit of a mystery to the story, as Kat attempts to find her true parents and, she imagines, her real place in the world. The truth is revealed gradually, both through what Kat uncovers as well as through excerpts from her adopted mother's journal, which makes the story something of a page turner but also means you...more
Loved it! Told from her lady-in-waiting's point of view, this story tells us basically her life story before she joined the court and attended to Queen Elizabeth herself. From her story, you also get a glimpse of Queen Elizabeth's tragic life as well. Plus, a surprise is also in store for the readers as well when they find out how the narrator is actually related to Elizabeth herself. A wonderful book. Must read!
I was extremely nervous to read this. I get a bit squeamish about historical fiction, and I usually try to avoid it because I always lose interest so quickly. I’m very pleased to say that was definitely not the case with The Stolen One.
It was kind of hard to get a grip on it at first, simply because the dialogue and slang fits so perfectly with that era. But once you get used to it, deciphering it was really easy and only added to how genuine this story was.
Suzanne Crowley wrote this story very...more
It was kind of hard to get a grip on it at first, simply because the dialogue and slang fits so perfectly with that era. But once you get used to it, deciphering it was really easy and only added to how genuine this story was.
Suzanne Crowley wrote this story very...more
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I don’t understand how I haven’t heard of this book before. Many of my friends who live and breathe YA have never heard of it. I wouldn’t have heard of it myself if I didn’t happen by a random comment while searching for historical YA.
This book was everything I hoped for and more. I read it in one sitting even though I was exhausted and was sure my eyes were about to bleed.
Tudor England has always been an obsession of mine, especially Elizabeth’s rein. So I am beyond fam...more
I don’t understand how I haven’t heard of this book before. Many of my friends who live and breathe YA have never heard of it. I wouldn’t have heard of it myself if I didn’t happen by a random comment while searching for historical YA.
This book was everything I hoped for and more. I read it in one sitting even though I was exhausted and was sure my eyes were about to bleed.
Tudor England has always been an obsession of mine, especially Elizabeth’s rein. So I am beyond fam...more
"No one wanted you. But I did..."
Kat Bab has heard those words all of her life and thus her soul was forever at unrest wanting to solve the mystery of her lineage.
THE STOLEN ONE is an intriguing tale set in the Elizabethan era; full of history with detailed descriptions of gorgeously crafted wardrobes. A story ever mindful of it's forbidden secrets.
Kat, a skilled embroiderer is raised in a tiny village only knowing her mother Grace and sister Anna and although she is loved, she is not content. B...more
Kat Bab has heard those words all of her life and thus her soul was forever at unrest wanting to solve the mystery of her lineage.
THE STOLEN ONE is an intriguing tale set in the Elizabethan era; full of history with detailed descriptions of gorgeously crafted wardrobes. A story ever mindful of it's forbidden secrets.
Kat, a skilled embroiderer is raised in a tiny village only knowing her mother Grace and sister Anna and although she is loved, she is not content. B...more
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Plot:
Fair. The beginning and middle were fine, but the ending dragged. This was compounded by the journal entries splashed in between chapters, which honestly had me confused. I couldn’t figure out who was who, and since the journal was supposed to be revealing Kat’s identity little by little, it really only confused me more and didn’t add to the plot. The information could have been placed inside the main story easily, and would not have been as confusing for me. (NOTE: This may also be partly...more
Fair. The beginning and middle were fine, but the ending dragged. This was compounded by the journal entries splashed in between chapters, which honestly had me confused. I couldn’t figure out who was who, and since the journal was supposed to be revealing Kat’s identity little by little, it really only confused me more and didn’t add to the plot. The information could have been placed inside the main story easily, and would not have been as confusing for me. (NOTE: This may also be partly...more
I was very impressed overall with this book! After a couple of slow chapters, the plot takes off abruptly and doesn't let up until the last page, where it is all tied up in a satisfying ending. The heroine of the story, Katherine Bab, is a headstrong teenage girl who is raised in the English countryside during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Kat knows she has a mysterious past and is determined to discover exactly who she is. Because of her extraordinary skill as a seamstress, she is called to c...more
Congratulations Suzanne Crowley! I cannot remember the last time I read a young adult historical novel that I enjoyed this much. There are numerous reasons to love this book, and I would heartily recommend it to lovers of young adult literature, historical novels, and just plain good stories. But to be more specific, Crowley has done several things with this novel that are wonderful to see.
For one thing, the main character is woefully, wonderfully flawed. For most of the novel you have a love-ha...more
For one thing, the main character is woefully, wonderfully flawed. For most of the novel you have a love-ha...more
I'll keep this short...
Crowley's interpretation of the child of Katherine Parr was seemingly quite interesting. Or it started out to be, but I could not get myself to like Kat or her story. I apologize for that, after all, everyone has their own opinions. The entire story was just a boggle to me and I'm not sure where or what happened since it all seemed random. Anyways, I think maybe I just needed to find away to like Kat and then the process of reading this would have been a lot more pleasant....more
Crowley's interpretation of the child of Katherine Parr was seemingly quite interesting. Or it started out to be, but I could not get myself to like Kat or her story. I apologize for that, after all, everyone has their own opinions. The entire story was just a boggle to me and I'm not sure where or what happened since it all seemed random. Anyways, I think maybe I just needed to find away to like Kat and then the process of reading this would have been a lot more pleasant....more
I love historical fiction, and The Stolen One did not disappoint. Kat was a lively and engaging character was was very likable, despite being far from perfect. Her search for the truth about her mother was fascinating, and though the mystery was easy to figure out from the diary entries that prefaced each chapter, I still loved reading as Kat put it together piece by piece for herself. This book is pretty light on the romance- though it does have a sweet ending- rather it is a glimpse into the l...more
I didn't read up on this at all before my copy came from the Library, I saw it was getting good reviews but I went to start it I realized I had no idea what it was about, with a cover and title like that I was thinking I might have grabbed me a Fairy Changeling story, but what I had was more of a true changeling story (a what if this happened in history...) which is my favorite kind of historical fiction, the type that takes a historical mystery (in this case, what did happen to Mary, infant chi...more
I got this book for Christmas, and although I'm not impressed with the cover, the book was pretty good. I mean, I'm a little tired of covers like this on historical fiction books. It makes them look like fantasy or something... and bad fantasy at that. But anyways, the book was interesting and fast paced! It was a great balance of romance, adventure, history, and mystery all set during Queen Elizabeth's rule in England! It circled around Kat, who has no idea what her past is. Desperate to find o...more
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Suzanne Crowley was born in a small west Texas town, not unlike Jumbo, where tall talles abound and life is lived close to the bone. She was raised in Houston and graduated from the University of Texas with a degree in Journalism. She worked briefly at an interior design magazine before staying home to raise her three children and write freelance articles for magazines. Suzanne is a well-known min...more
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“When she shines we all bask in her happiness, but when the thunderstorms come in, let me warn you, find a faraway hiding hole." Dorothy Broadbelt, lady in waiting to Queen Elizabeth 1.”
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