A Stolen Life
2011 • 273 pages

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Average rating3.9

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I'm rating this book a 5 not because it's particularly “good” or enjoyable to read but because how do you rate someone telling their own story in their own words? Is there anyone who could have told that story in a more “correct” way?
The first part of the book retells Jaycee's captivity, sometimes in painfully explicit details that were truly stomach turning and made all the worst by her naïve childlike storytelling. The second part is about her life after. I found the part of the book that focuses on Jaycee's life after more interesting than her account of what was done to her, in that part you can see her coming alive gaining her voice and agency and blossom into a seemingly pretty amazing person.

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