"What do you want?" I asked in a broken voice. "Simple." With a cigarette in his mouth smiled du "Not to be alone."
In "I wish I could hate you," writes Gemma retrospect, the story of her abduction on. As they stunned by Ty, the young man with beautiful, penetrating blue eyes and from the airport is kidnapped and how he kidnapped in the desert of Australia. Even the first attempt to escape her shows how pointless the idea of escape: around the little wooden house where Ty is hiding with her, there are miles just dust, debris and dried plants, a seemingly endless desert plain. Their initial concerns, he wanted to do something to her, never completely disappear, even as Ty assured her repeatedly that he will do her nothing. After all why he holds them firmly in the desert? In the solitude of the outback Gemma is no other choice than dealing with their to arrange kidnappers and they must find that by and by, other emotions except fear and hatred for Ty creep into their consciousness. They would hate him but actually ...
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My opinion
Stockholm Syndrome it is called when a victim over time developed positive feelings for their captors. So much seems to have a case at first glance, with respect to Gemma. Because of course she knows that what Ty has done to her was wrong, but they can not hate him, because by and by she meets the people behind the facade of the abductor and his sad story about:
were "Up to the moment you have for me just the kidnappers You had no reason for what you made you were stupid, evil.. mentally ill and that's it. But when you started to talk, you started to change you. "
Ty has deliberately chosen the secluded life in the Australian desert after being first his mother and his father have any left in the lurch. From early childhood, he supplied himself and the desert is his home. This new home he will also bring closer Gemma and over time it makes them more and more doubt on her old life. Was she really that happy in London, as it will make Ty-looking?
for a youth book, the story is really "hard stuff" and because of the subject of which I would recommend this book only from the age of 14 years, because especially at the beginning, Gemma's thoughts turn again to their fears to raped by Ty, tortured or murdered, even when he assures her constantly, you want to do anything. Despite the adult theme, the book is packed youth justice, sexual assault or Violence does not take place here. Nevertheless, the book is one of the kidneys, because the story is written very vivid and disturbing, Gemma's reactions and feelings seemed to me perfectly understandable and comprehensible. How much of their feelings, ultimately, the extreme situation are owed and what is real, remains open. And that's what gives the relationship between the two even more melancholic note.
Like Gemma and I was reading about my feelings for Ty torn. On the one hand, it is not true that he holds them against their will, on the other hand, you develop as a reader sympathy for this young man for himself and Gemma has just chosen the wrong path. In other circumstances they might become a happy couple, but decided to instead Ty for the kidnapping. I would like to tell about his motives at this point not too much, because of course this is the great secret, the Gemma gradually tricks to come.
The book is written from the perspective I and does that very reason is authentic, first hand, blowing like I was there live, such as Gemma scraped the red dust of the desert on the lips and the hot wind on their skin.
The author is not afraid to write a book for young people rather uncomfortable, unusual end for which I am very grateful, because anything else would have seemed unrealistic. Stay with me the impression of a very intense, gripping tale about two young people searching for connectedness, connectedness to other people but also to the land and nature to them in the consolation can give no man.
Authentic, oppressive and utterly compelling: the story of a kidnapping - and an unusual love. Please read!
Authentic, oppressive and utterly compelling: the story of a kidnapping - and an unusual love. Please read!
Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Carlsen Verlag GmbH; 1 edition (February 2011)
ISBN-10: 3551520089
Price: 14,95 €
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