Girl, Stolen
April Henry
3/5
Cheyenne started this book off not having the best week. She had pneumonia and was just waiting in the car for her step-mom to get her her medicine when a boy steals the car thinking it was empty. She's a pretty capable person, but she's also blind which kind of complicates the whole escape thing. Griffin feels bad, but he's too scared of his father to just let her go and his dad won't without a ransom.
I think the author did a fantastic job researching and writing about being blind. I learned some great stuff about how the visually impaired navigate the world so that was great. In terms of the kidnapping arc though I didn't really feel it, it didn't feel as life or death as I feel it would in that situation. Maybe it was because Cheyenne is such a strong character, but I just never felt stressed out for her.
Maybe the next book will dive deeper into the psychology behind that? I just felt like there wasn't enough internal struggle- from Cheyenne for you know being kidnapped, and from Griffin for being forced to go along with it and from being abused his entire life. If you want me to get behind a character who is participating in criminal activity you're going to have give him some redeeming qualities.
It was good though, if you want a lighter and more YA kidnapping story. Plus, like I said, great facts and emotions on her being blind I feel like authors can so easily forget to do research on stuff like that. We'll see if the next one has some more action though.
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