Book Review: "Stolen" by Annette Lapointe

[nos4a2no9]

I just finished Stolen, by fellow LJ fangirl Annette Lapointe, and I've been thinking about it off and on all night. It's the sort of novel that sticks with you: raw, and painful, and unexpectedly tender. In some ways I wish I'd never read it, and I also want to read it again and again and again.

Comments

[anonymous]

Huh, that sounds interesting. Thanks for the rec!

[luzula]

Uh, and that was me, forgetting to log in.

[nos4a2no9]

Heh, I suspected it was you :-) And I think you would like it! You'd probably connect with a lot of the themes, too.

[wihluta]

Thanks for the rec!

I'll see if I can get my hands on it, here in ye olde Europe. I'd really like to read this.

[nos4a2no9]

I think you'd find it interesting! Good luck tracking it down: I know the big online booksellers have it, and I hope you can buy it new rather than used. It's fairly cheap, as paperbacks go, and you'd be supporting a fellow fangirl. *g*

[nos4a2no9]

Oh, boo! That sucks! Why the heck do they do that? Is selling more books to more people a bad thing? >:0

[nos4a2no9]

Yeah, you'd think! *g* Silly booksellers. I hope you can get it from Amazon.com, then - it'd be worth it.

[sageness]

\o/

[nos4a2no9]

\o/ \o/ \o/

(I'm bad, aren't I? You're all, "Hey, I'm writing this Lord John story..." and I read all the Outlander books, and then you're, "Hey, remember Stolen?" and I jump to do your bidding. Imagine if you really were a supervillain. I'd be a great minion).

[sageness]

Then it is a GOOD THING I use my powers for Awesome! \o/

*beams*

Although the ficfinishing mod wants me to commit either to finishing a chapter of this or the entire fic by their deadline. I don't think this story really has chapters? And I don't know if I can make the deadline. But I think I can. The previous parts of firefighter!RayK totally count toward the total. What remains is policework and original characters.

[nos4a2no9]

Hmmm, what about breaking it up into two parts for the purposes of the ficfinishing goal? You could label what you have so far as, "Part One" and work to build up the fictional community and setting of the story, Ray's profession and the medical stuff with Fraser, and maybe start dropping hints as to the casefic stuff. "Part Two" could be where things heat up (no pun intended) and we meet the original characters. Does that sound like a reasonable way to set out a ficfinishing goal? You could smooth out the division in the editing process later on.

[lamentables]

1. goes to add to wishlist
2. thinks 'that looks familiar'
3. checks wishlist: added 31 July 2008
4. sighs at own predictable nature

But thanks for the reminder :-)

(Was it you who caused me to add it last year?)

[nos4a2no9]

Heee, no, I suspect it was probably Sage, as she's been singing the book's praises for a while. I might have said something about it, though. It's really a fabulous book, and I think you'd like it very much.

[lamentables]

Hmmmm, looking at the other things I added that day - The Outlander by Gil Adamson and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murukami, I have vague memories of a literary review magazine/blog. Don't remember which one.

[nos4a2no9]

Your reading wishlist must be a very interesting creature indeed. :-)