2010/301 pgs
Written as a letter to the man who kidnapped her, Gemma recounts her kidnapping and her time spent in the Australian outback with Ty. She goes through a range of emotions and told she has Stockholm syndrome as she is conflicted with her feelings for her captor. Lucy Christopher messes with your head all throughout this book! We hate Ty with Gemma, but at the same time, we want to root for Ty and forgive him and view him as vulnerable. We understand Gemma's conflicted emotions. At times I wanted Gemma and Ty to end up together as twisted as that is!
It's not a book that everyone will love, but it's inventive and scary and totally deserving of the Printz Honor it received. It sucked me in and had me second guessing the characters and their emotions. I would highly recommend this one to book clubs-for older teens and adults. Lots of great discussion to come from it!
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