"I am! Once Griffin's car-thief father learns she's wealthy, he decides to demand ransom. 3) Griffin struggles with doing the right thing. 6) Is there something else that you would have done to help yourself escape besides attack Griffin? Sometimes, just for a thrill, Griffin would even give a nod as he straightened up with the J. 4) Cheyenne is physically blind. What held my interest beyond that was the way the author wrote the victim's character—Cheyenne's blindness was tragic but rather than focus on that, the reader is going to concentrate on her persistence and ability to adapt. She nodded, her eyes not meeting his. It would be all too easy to track him down. Griffin hadn't meant to kidnap Cheyenne, all he needed to do was steal a car for the others. He kept his head half turned, one eye on the road and the other on her. Sixteen-year-old Cheyenne, blinded in an accident that killed her mother three years earlier, has pneumonia. More heart-pounding thrillers from April Henry: "Be ready to be startled and inspired as the story reaches its climax. When Griffin slips into the Cadillac Escalade, its keys left in the ignition at the mall parking lot, he only means to steal it as a gift for his father. I started reading this book a little disappointed, because everything on the back cover happens, literally, in the first 1-2 pages! Better to keep her for a little while yet. How would the characters interact? Cheyenne felt like a mouse she had seen in the kitchen one time when she turned on the light before school. Griffin takes her to his home and soon before she is to be released by G Girl, Stolen is a contemporary … he shouted back. Still sick and held captive, Cheyenne must use her other senses and intellect to break free and find help before it's too late. Put these two together and you've sort of got Girl, Stolen. Click or Press Enter to view the items in your shopping bag or Press Tab to interact with the Shopping bag tooltip. Her realistic depiction of the coping strategies and the strengths developed by the blind greatly enhances the novel, lifting it above the level of a mere escapist thriller. Both are well-built, complex characters, trapped in their own ways by life's circumstances, which--paired with a relentlessly fast pace--ensures a tense read. Just like she was thinking about how to get away, to get someone's attention, to hurt him so bad that he couldn't hurt her back. Approaching them. Ignoring the girl, ignoring his own panicked thoughts, the explanations and rationalizations he was already practicing for when he got back home, Griffin drove as fast as he could without losing control. 12 & up), ©1997-2020 Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Inc. 122 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011. Her head ached where it had slammed against the window. Instead of slowing down, Griffin accelerated as he turned out of the far end of the parking lot. He sounded angry and out of control, just like she felt. April Henry's YA mysteries are intriguing. That's what Griffin had thought, anyway, until the blanket in the backseat turned out to have a girl underneath it. This book was actually better than I was expecting. A strong, compelling read. She could probably hear cars okay, and it wasn't like there were a lot of them. Recommended to Jenn, Reader of Things by: The YA genre has not stopped surprising me. Good. Whenever she got money back from someone else, she asked which bill was which and then folded it. As the story goes on we see Cheyenne uprooted and kidnapped and left in the middle of nowhere unsure of what is going to happen next. Super good... definitely recommend for people into ‘on the edge’ books . I think that a lot of other YA readers will enjoy this book, I think that my biggest problem is that I think that currently I am very much loving YA paranormal and anything that isn't within that genre just kinda falls flat for me. You Save 10%. Readers will be hard-pressed to put this one down before its heart-pounding conclusion.—Jennifer Barnes, formerly at Homewood Library, IL, This can't-put-it-down crime thriller unfolds through the viewpoints of both victim and criminal. For twelve-year-old Emily, the best thing about moving to San Then she remembered the keys. Despite the blanket that covered her, Cheyenne was shivering. But if he gagged her, it would make it that much less likely that she would be able to get help. She did as he asked, but at the same time tensed her wrists and held them as far apart as she dared.