5/18/2023 0 Comments Stolen lucy![]() “I saw you pour the sugar in, hair falling over your eyes as you bent your head. A handsome, blue-eyed man - Ty, he of the toned arms, scars and rough hands, with tanned skin “as brown as a stretch of dirt,” smelling of eucalyptus - in his mid-twenties, who Gemma had noticed was following her, pays her tab. Gemma realizes she doesn’t have local currency, but only after the drink is thrust in her direction. Stolen begins when 16-year-old Brit Gemma Toombs scurries off to purchase a coffee after an argument with her parents at the Bangkok airport. Despite its Printz Honor, the book remains one of the best-kept secrets in the YA genre. Impressively, Stolen-Christopher’s second novel-is written entirely in second person. ![]() So begins Lucy Christopher’s Stolen: A Letter to My Captor, a harrowing tale of obsession, fear, and isolation that’s one of the more engaging YA books in recent memory. No one had ever looked at me like that before.” In the airport, that day in August, you had that look in your eyes, as though you wanted something from me, as though you’d wanted it for a long time. ![]()
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