It's about a young blind and sick girl who accidentally gets kidnapped by another young teen. After they find out that her father is rich and powerful, they decide to keep her. Knowing that she is in trouble, Cheyenne relies on her inner resources to gain sympathy and stay alive. She befriends Griffin who kidnapped her and opens up a world that he didn't know existed. As it comes down to the exchange, Cheyenne realizes that just handing her over is not what is going to happen. She can't rely on Griffin so who can she rely on?
This is a short but enjoyable YA book. The author writes in the way I remembered YA books used to be written (before we had the moniker, YA). So, I would probably go as far to say that the MG crowd would enjoy this book as well. Cheyenne is a capable and strong character and one I think is great for the YA crowd. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking for a strong heroine. I give this book 4 stars.
The YA genre has not stopped surprising me. Everytime I crack a YA book I have a fear deep down inside that it'll be so childish I'll cringe. While there certainly have been a few like that most are not and this falls in the latter category.
Henry's biggest feat here, in my opinion, is Cheyenne's blindess. Everything that she went through is suspenseful. Add in blindness and it throws it all right through the roof. I kept think, in almost every single situation, how scared I'd be if it was me. And I can see. Then I thought about me going through such and such - BLIND. I couldn't imagine it.
This is very much one of those books you have to stop yourself from flipping forward in. I wanted so much to just know it was all going to be okay but I forced myself to not do that.
I'm very much looking forward to another book by April Henry and I must also say that I loved the rest of the characters. Even the unlikable characters were thought up beautifully. Roy and his cohorts were great and Griffin's characters couldn't have been more perfect.
The only thing I didn't like was a little thing on the cover. The actual cover itself - awesome. I love the girl with the hands over her eyes and I love how a little sliver of space can be seen through fingers. What I don't like is the "Please let me go, I won't tell!" on the top of the front cover. That just screams "kiddie" to me and it struck me as just really not being needed. Subtleness goes a long way with something like this and I think with that removed the cover will be much more hard-hitting.
Wow, what a roller-coaster of a book! Cheyenne's plight was so compelling I didn't want to put this book down. I cannot imagine being blind, but this book really pulled me into Cheyenne's head and her world, and I pictured everything through her mind. Everything that would happen in the book, I would imagine it happening when all you could do was hear it, not see it. What a scary world that poor Cheyenne is pulled into.
The characters in this book were great. Cheyenne was vulnerable, but she was so strong and resilient in the face of these dangerous men. She never gives up the fight, even when she's made them believe that she has. Griffin is a troubled kid that you can't help but feel sorry for. He's trying to be a good kid, but with a Dad that makes you steal for a living, that's not so easy. Roy, TJ, and Jimbo were so easy to hate. There was so many times that I wanted to jump into the pages and pummel them myself. I hated them passionately, and that is just a testament to the wonderful writing.
April Henry really created a rich world, one that you can imagine every detail of. As I imagined Cheyenne running through the forest, I could feel the branches catching my face, the cold stinging my fingers and toes. It was a great ride. Although, I liked the way the book was wrapping up, my only complaint would be that it ended a little too abruptly. It could really use another paragraph there at the end.
Overall it was a great read that I definitely recommend!
I normally don't read YA books, but this one looked intriguing. It did not disappoint. This was a good book with a really strong female in Cheyenne. She was in the back seat of the car while her step-mom ran into the drug store to pick up a script for her. The keys were in it and a young man sees it and on impulse, steals it. He didn't realize that Cheyenne was in the back seat. He also didn't know she was blind. The story takes off from there. I really recommend this book for a quick read.
