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Girl, Stolen

By: April Henry
Narrated by: Kate Rudd
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Sixteen-year-old Cheyenne Wilder is sleeping in the back of a car while her mom fills Cheyenne’s prescription for antibiotics. Before Cheyenne realizes what’s happening, their car is being stolen. Griffin hadn’t meant to kidnap Cheyenne, but once his dad finds out that Cheyenne’s father is the president of a powerful corporation, everything changes - now there’s a reason to keep her. How will Cheyenne survive this nightmare? Because she’s not only sick with pneumonia - she’s blind.

©2013 April Henry (P)2013 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
Thrillers & Suspense Young Adult Suspense

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"Page-turning suspense with a clever heroine who meets up with bad luck, bad men, a bad dog, bad weather, bad health, and has to face them all without seeing them. A nail-biter." (Gail Giles, best-selling author of What Happened to Cass McBride?)
"A unique and clever premise. Cheyenne has to be one of the most resourceful heroines in recent memory." (Todd Strasser, best-selling author of Wish You Were Dead)
"[A] can’t-put-it-down crime thriller...constantly interesting and suspenseful." ( Kirkus Reviews)

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Great book for all ages

No matter what age you are, you'll love this book! April Henry has a great sense of suspense and Rudd does a great job with narration.

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Easy listening

Quick easy listen and very easy to follow. Narrative was pretty good. Finished in a day.

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awesome

i love all your books and your reader to she did an amazing job reading

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Best Book I've Read Since Warriors

I just finished this book, and I'm amazed. The story was action packed and intense.

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Machine narrative

Sounded like a machine reading. Predictable plot not super great. Would not read another like it from this author.

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Resting in the back of her stepmother Danielle's car, Cheyenne is carjacked from outside a pharmacy. Griffin never meant to kidnap her, he wouldn't have stolen the car if he new Cheyenne, sick from pneumonia and blind from an accident three years prior, huddles under a blanket. When his father Roy learns Cheyenne is wealthy, the accidental kidnapping becomes a ransom situation and all bets are off.

I read GIRL, STOLEN in one sitting. April Henry held my interest with this even-paced novel. Chapters alternate from Griffin's and Cheyenne's third person points of view. I usually prefer first person narratives, but Henry did a great job letting drawing me in. Griffin and Cheyenne were interesting and likable characters. Some of Cheyenne's abilities to fight back felt unrealistic, not because of her blindness, but because she had no self-defense training and any kidnapped teen would have to be terrified.

GIRL, STOLEN is a fun read, but not very memorable. I got it for $1.99 at Amazon. I'll probably read the sequel, but not until the price comes down.

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Blind-girl power

How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.
This was an engaging listen starring a girl who never lets her blindness stop her, whether it’s attending a “regular” school or fighting back with wit and grit against the gang looking to ransom her. The practical realities of living blind were credibly written and helped with the slow burn suspense.

This is free of sex and graphic violence, although there are Agatha Christie-levels of death, crime, and threats of female abuse. I saw one reviewer who said this was language free and another that bemoaned the language. I honestly don’t recall, so I’d say any language is sparse and falls short of using F bombs.

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
There was a lost opportunity to narrate this with dual narration. There are actually two POVs conveniently separated into chapters: Cheyenne and one of her abductors, Griffin. Griffin also has challenges, backstories, and his own story arc, so a male narrator for his chapters would have helped bring him to life better. Kate Rudd’s narration, which was rather robotic in the beginning, tends to suffer a bit with her male voicing. Moreover, it looks like book two also features both Cheyenne and Griffin. Sadly, no dual narration for that one either (new female narrator though). Still, this was good enough that I’d get book 2 if it goes on sale.

Update June 2023: I liked book. 2 even better. Yes, the twists were more unrealistic.
But, the suspense was great and the action non-stop.

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Captivating

I 💞 the narrator. Excellent job capturing the heroine's emotion. And the author did an amazing job in explaining the every day struggles of the blind.

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I literally can’t stop listening!

I originally began the book as a book club book and thought it would be nothing more than a cringe mystery or something but as I got deeper, and got to know the characters, and what was going on in the story, I found myself immediately drawn to this book and I loved it so much and I know you will too

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interesting

I actually read this book myself and then had audible read me to sleep but this book is unlike the books I usually read it keeps your attention and every detail is important I usually don't like "horror, mystery, tragedy" books but this was really entertaining and left me with chills

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