Girl, Stolen

Seventeen-year-old Cheyenne Wilder, blind and sick with pneumonia, is unintentionally kidnapped by Griffin, a kid pressured by his father to steal the car she was in. While Cheyenne becomes bait for ransom and wonder if she'll see her family again, she befriends Griffin and slowly plans her escape.

Girl, Stolen by April Henry has an amazing concept but a bit of a dull execution. After Cheyenne is kidnapped and ransomed, it kinda dragged on, full of her worrying, befriending Griffin, and slowly making a plan to escape her captors.

I wish the stakes were higher and we could feel the danger she was in. Sometimes it felt like just a huge info-dump about being blind. Although, it was very educational and taught me more about what it's like to be blind. Her pneumonia was kind of inconsistent in my opinion and was only to serve as a plot device to add suspense.

I want to like Cheyenne and Griffin's relationship, but I just felt like everything they talked it was an info dump about being blind or background stories about the characters. Which is nice to have, but they rarely talked about anything else.

Things pick up and get interesting near the 15% mark, but other than that, the book really dragged on. And I won't be reading the sequel. I can't say that I recommend this book, but I will say that isn't the worse I've seen on the market.