Date published: June 2009
ISBN: 978-0-06-123200-8
Young Adult/Historical
Hardcover
Reviewed by Dawn
Katherine Bab lives in the English countryside with her adoptive mother, Grace and Anna, Grace’s daughter. With her questions unanswered about her real parents and with Grace refusing to tell her anything except cryptic answers, Katherine is frustrated at every turn….until Grace dies and she seizes her chance to go off to London with Anna to find her answers and in the process finds a world unlike she has ever known before. Her talent with needlework works in her favor and she catches the eye of Queen Elizabeth and soon has become her favorite even as she tries to work her way through the halls of court and find the answers she seeks. Katherine is determined to find the answers to her past no matter the cost and in the process, she finds the woman inside that she was destined to become.
THE STOLEN ONE is a really good young adult story set in Elizabethan England with complex characters, mysteries and a storyline that will keep you entertained from start to finish. Katherine is a complex character who can be sweet, loving, brash and selfish. She is a character that you can relate to and the reader finds themselves wondering as the book unfolds who, exactly, are her parents. With some really interesting characters to keep the story moving along, Kat finds herself the fixture of rumors, plots and the fixture between two men who want her but Kat can not stop thinking of the one man she left behind or the world she soon longs for. Ms. Crowley delves deep into Kat and her secondary characters and brings them alive with a stroke of her pen. Hidden nuances keep the reader glued to the pages and I was enthralled from start to finish. I really wanted to know who Kat’s parents were just as much as she did.
As you read THE STOLEN ONE be prepared to get lost within the halls of Queen Elizabeth’s time and find out the one mystery that haunts Kat as she tries to find her way through a world so unlike she never knew growing up in the countryside. If you enjoy a really well told story set in the Elizabethan era then try THE STOLEN ONE. Ms. Crowley definitely delivers a story that will keep you guessing from start to finish.
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