Stolen in Aussie Readers

Jul 26, 2014 Josie rated it it was amazing

I have no words.....but I'll find some to describe this book to you.
Yesturday afternoon I started reading "Stolen" by Lucy Christopher.I got a text from my sister a month back which read : "Stolen by Lucy Christopher...buy it"
So I did.....It arrived last week.
I devoured 100 pages in one sitting, then took a short break to acknowledge the existence of my partner before he went to work - night shift - then sped through another 100 pages.With 90 pages left to go, I didnt get that early night I want ...more

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Apr 19, 2011 Jaime West rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favourites, books-i-own, young-adult, thriller

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Such a beautiful story, tragic and very complicated but wonderful. One of the best I have read!
Every time I thought about it, I would cry, it was something that I was still thinking about at 3am this morning when I couldn't sleep.

Lucy's style of writing it as a letter, had you in Gemma's shoes from the first sentence and it's tense all the way through. It's a little like a car accident, you can't seem to look away.

Gemma is kidnapped by Ty, a beautiful young Australian man with piercing blue eye ...more

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Oct 29, 2010 Flavia Sugnu rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: available-at-library, teen-fic, borrowed

After reading Stolen I tried to picture myself in her shoes. We are the same age so thinking from the perspective of a teenager is not a problem. I wanted the happy ending where she ended up with him. I wanted her to accept him and I couldn't believe that just when she was beginning to accept him, the snake bit her and then everything else came. I think that the beauty of the story is that it really makes think about what you feel like if it were you. I'm still puzzling over the concept of her h ...more

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Nov 06, 2013 Mel Teshco rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

It's been a while since I've read a book from cover to cover, but wow, I could not put this book down. Every page had me wanting to turn the next and then the next, eager to find out more. I won't give away the story, except to say the heroine is kidnapped and taken to the Australian outback where no one else is to be found anywhere near. It's just her...and him. I think I fell in love with the hero before the heroine did, which was weird knowing that he'd literally taken her from everyone and e ...more

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Jul 03, 2010 Sheree rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult, reviews, own, suspense-thriller, read-in-2010, aussie-author

Stolen was one of the most unique reads I've ever read; disturbing, confusing, complex, thought-provoking and lyrical. Told from Gemma's point of view in the form of a letter to her captor; this unusual format gives the reader an intimate perspective of Gemma's emotions during her captivity. Stolen was unputdownable, I read it in one sitting, reading through until 3am and the story has been on my mind a lot since finishing it.

As an Australian who has spent time in the outback, Lucy Christopher' ...more

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Oct 15, 2009 snapp rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: ya-fiction, drama, read-2009

Great book!

Was a little slow at times but that is to be expected considering almost the entire book centers around just two people and the story is completely told in diary format.

It was interesting because the situation is completely plausible and relevant given the reported incidents of kidnappings lately. But one of the standout things for me was the descriptions of the Australian landscape. She really captured the harsh beauty of the Outback and the feeling of complete isolation that you fee ...more

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