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Auf einem Campingplatz in Kalifornien wird die 16-jährige Louisa von dem verschlossenen Brendan entführt. Er verschleppt sie in die Wildnis Kanadas, an einen Ort, so rau und verlassen wie er selbst. Er behauptet, sie zu lieben, und er will sie nie wieder gehen lassen.
Für die lebenslustige Louisa beginnt eine Zeit voller Verzweiflung, Angst und Abhängigkeit. Doch nach Wochen der Einsamkeit, gefangen in den tiefen kanadischen Wäldern und unter eisblauem Himmel, wird sie immer mehr mit Brendans traumatischer Vergangenheit konfrontiert. Die Grenzen zwischen Richtig und Falsch, zwischen Gut und Böse zerbrechen. Louisa fühlt sich immer mehr zu ihrem Entführer hingezogen. Doch kann sie ihren Gefühlen wirklich trauen? Und vor allem: Kann sie Brendan trauen?

422 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 18, 2018

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Mila Olsen

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Mila Olsen is a pseudonym for German author Uta Maier.

Born in the 70s, Mila Olsen is a child of crises, changes and upheavals. Wooden clogs, punk and anti-nuclear movement included Disco Wave, New Age and "We Children from Zoo Station". At the age of 12 she wanted to become a writer, but this dream came true much later.

Today she writes stories about love and life. Because of her education and her interest in psychological phenomena, her novels often revolve around borderline experiences.

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4,047 reviews2,863 followers
January 28, 2019
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So wow I was not expecting this book to be as excellent as it was. I am seriously super bummed that book two hasn't been translated into English yet. This was a fantastically well-written book. A very slow burn that doesn't hit on a romance vibe until very late in the book. It is also a pretty long book, but the story was so compelling that I never found myself bored. The setting was fantastic. The development of the "relationship" was well done. The characters were intriguing and likable (although Lou was a HUGE brat at the beginning). I really don't have a lot more to say about this one. I LOVED it, and I hope that book two gets translated ASAP because I am dying to get my hands on it!

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2,897 reviews2,651 followers
June 5, 2024
Wow!



The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💜❤️💖
Heat/Steam: 🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌎
Character development: 😔🤓😀😘🥰

The heroine: Louisa - she lives in Ash Springs, Nevada and is a high school student. It is a tiny little desert town in the middle of nowhere, where nobody would want to live. She has four older brothers (Liam, Ethan, Jayden and Avery). Ethan, who is now twenty-nine, got custody of all of them after their dad died when he was eighteen. Louisa just passed the admissions test to be in the Hades in Love club. The test was a prank, and she dyed the school mashed potatoes blue. She is the first in her grade and only the third in her town to be in the elite club. Being in the club means more friends, parties, trips to Las Vegas and more. What she wants more than anything is to get out there and start living.

The Story: Louisa was in trouble for more than just the blue mashed potatoes, there was a whole list of things she got in trouble for including putting her most personal hopes and dreams of getting away and doing something exciting on her Facebook wall. Her punishment was that she couldn’t join the Hades in Love club and Ethan canceled her modeling camp that she was planning to attend over the summer. Instead, she would be going on a camping vacation with her brothers. All that and he suspended her social media accounts after she posted their travel plans on Facebook.

The Hero: Brendan - Louisa meets Brenden at the visitor’s center of the campground where her and her brothers are staying. She had to run over there at the last minute to buy some lanterns which she was supposed to pack but forgot. Her brother Ethan was very mad at her and called her useless. So, when a hot guy such as Brendan pays attention to her, she feels better. When he asks if she wants a ride in his RV back to her campsite, she says yes, but when he knocks her out with chloroform, she knows something bad is happening.

The world building and character development in this book is really good. We get to know each of Louisa’s brothers really well from the start and can see exactly what her life is like. I can see why a teenager like her would want out, as that is how most teenagers think, but really, we can see that her life isn’t so bad, and her brothers all love her and want the best for her. Immediately after she gets kidnapped, I feel so bad for what her brothers were probably going through.

The writing is good, and I love that it takes you through everything that Louisa is thinking and feeling those first days after she wakes up having been kidnapped and taken from everything she knows. At first, she fears Brendan will rape and kill her, then she learns how truly crazy he is when he knows almost everything about her, yet she doesn’t know who he is or how he learned so much about her.

“Until a few hours ago, Brendan was just the horrible kidnapper psychopath that lured me into his trap. The person I was terrified of. The evil, evil guy who gave me knockout drops and stuck me in a box. Who apparently stalked me for months. Until a few hours ago, he didn’t have a past—he was my kidnapper, and that was that. Now, all of a sudden, he’s a human being with feelings. Someone who’s been hurt. Like, really hurt.”

This was a rollercoaster ride full of emotions. The reader goes along the journey with Louisa from captive to feeling something for her kidnapper. Brendan is actually a pretty nice guy despite the way he kidnapped Louisa, and he is definitely broken from his childhood. I loved the fact that he promised her he wouldn’t touch her unless she wanted him to, and he kept that promise. He never raped her or was violent with her and he even did some crazy things to protect her from himself.

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65 reviews137 followers
February 7, 2017
Ich bin absolut verliebt in dieses Buch, die Charaktere und auch in die Hörbuchsprecherin. Ganz große Empfehlung!
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219 reviews
August 30, 2024
After this, I think romance is alive and well. The writing portrays even a scary situation like being kidnapped in a hopeful and romantic light. It creates a dreamy and strangely erotic vibe. In some scenes the atmosphere is so cold that you feel it in your bones.

“It’s a quiet place,” Brendan says from behind me. Of course he’s behind me— we’re chained together, after all. “Can’t hear anything here but the bubbling water and a couple of cheeky birds. Spend a little time here, it’s like your spirit dissolves into the ether. You become one with the air and the water.”



Lou is taken by a man named Brendan to the chilly Canadian forest, and from the very first day, it's clear that Brendan is fixated on her. But weirdly, Bren is such a sweetheart, a dream man, and that limerence he has for Lou starts to blur lines of her hate and his love.

“I tested the chloroform on myself,” he says. “I mean, I was trying to knock you out, not kill you.” He is clearly totally insane. “Water was always easier to keep down afterward.” “You did it more than once?” “Four times.” He shrugs like it’s nothing, and then offers me the water bottle with an emphatic gesture. “Drink!” It’s not a request.


I mean a normal boyfriend would not test chloroform on himself just for you, right? Well, her sweet kidnapper did, and along with that raised the "perfect captor" bar by %70 percent.

“Where I grew up, might makes right, and here, that’s me, not you. Sorry.” He pushes himself up from the bench and looks down at me. “I know how hard this is for you.” Hard? “I’ll do everything I can to make it more bearable. When you’re angry, be angry. When you’re sad, be sad. I’m not going to forbid you to have feelings. I can handle them until things get better. If you think you want to spit on me or whatever, then do it, but don’t overdo it. There’s only one thing I absolutely forbid you from trying.” Every second I spend listening to him talk is making me more confused and agitated. “What’s that?” “Escaping.” That word is my only hope, and he snaps it in such a steely voice that it’s like the sound alone is enough to break every bone in my body.


I'm amazed at how well this was translated. The emotions and the entire vibe came through perfectly, and nothing was missed.

“When the lake by the cabin freezes, you can hear it singing itself to sleep. For days on end, these haunting melodies fill the cove— like whale song, like a giant blowing across glass bottles. And then these high, crystalline glass- harp tones... and noises like enormous water droplets falling onto the floor of a cave. And the fog is an army of ghosts dancing across the ice in time to the music, and the wolves howl in the background.”


If you've never heard singing ice before, PLEASE listen to it. The description is so perfect, the feeling it gives you really is unexplainable.
And honestly, living in a cabin in a peaceful forest, waking up to the sound of birds and singing ice, feels like a dream to me. Especially with the man who loves you with all that he has.

“Didn’t you ever have friends? Or a girl you liked?” “Relationships leave you vulnerable to abandonment. I can’t stand being abandoned, so I put up walls.” “But you don’t have them up around me?” I open his fingers, and the gravel tumbles to the ground. His empty hand lies there stiffly between mine like a dead man’s, like maybe he’s afraid to move it. “No,” he whispers. “Why not?” I whisper back. “Because I made sure you can’t leave me, so I don’t have to protect myself as much. The minute I saw you, everything was different. It was like I could see things through your eyes... life and stuff, I mean. You were a ray of sunshine in a dark cave.”


Am I the only one that feels like this is incredibly erotic and raw? Because a man pouring his feelings out to you with no limits or obstacles is so freeing? Like I said, raw feelings are carnal, and a man feeling and saying them without fear is SO romantic. I can't explain it well but you girls will understand.

“I wouldn’t kidnap you, I wouldn’t drug you... I wouldn’t touch you... but it’s too late, I can’t go back. I don’t want to lose you. Especially not now that I’ve gotten to know you. At first I just hoped you could make me happy. Now I know you do.”


And if you want a vibe like this or if you liked this book, I highly reccomend Wanderlust by Skye Warren, SO SOO good, and DARK AF.

It’s just how it was back then. The first time. Bren glances over at me, and the red sunlight dances in his eyes. I remember the question I saw in those eyes a year ago, the one he was only asking me in his heart. Do you want this? I know the answer now.


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1,039 reviews65 followers
May 17, 2016
Das ist wohl die dämlichste Lovestory, die ich jemals gelesen habe.

Die Teenagerin Lou wird von einem Psychopathen entführt und am Ende verliebt sie sich in den Typen, der ihr gegenüber handgreiflich geworden ist, Wahnvorstellungen hat und nur wirres Zeug redet. NATÜRLICH!

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Author 8 books465 followers
May 31, 2018
Ich erklärs in meinem Lesemonat, während ich hoffe, dass mich niemand steinigen möchte 😭😭😭
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345 reviews35 followers
March 31, 2017
Heute lassen wir mal 5 Sterne gerade sein!!! ❤
Die Rezi findet ihr auf meinem FB-Blog!
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8,992 reviews16 followers
January 27, 2019
Until You Love Me by Mila Olsen is the story of Louisa and Brendan. Louisa is a teenage who is having trouble at home with her father who doesn't see her doing anything right. Is in trouble with school and isn't enjoying how things are after the lost of her mother. When her father forces her to go on a camping trip with him and her brothers, Louisa is very upset about it. When she messes up and forgets to bring the lanterns her father has her walk down to the store at the campsite to get some there. While in the store she meets Brendan who talks to her and she thinks he is cute. But when she goes outside he leads her to his mobile home with the story that he will drive her to the campsite. But once she is in side...she knows she has made a mistake. Not to justify Brendan but he had a very traumatic history that has taught him to cut himself off from everyone but there was something about Louisa that he saw a light he wanted to be close too. Although this is a drama / hostage romance it does end with a happy ending showing how two people with difficult lives can be that one special person for another. Overall it was a page turner for me and I did enjoy their story.
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395 reviews15 followers
January 12, 2018
Obwohl es eine schön erzählte Geschichte ist, fällt es mir schwer es als schöne Liebesgeschichte zu betrachten, wenn hier jemand entführt worden ist.
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116 reviews47 followers
December 13, 2020
Ich glaube eine Review und Sternevergabe ist mir noch nie so schwer gefallen wie bei diesem Buch. Normalerweise hat man ja so ein gewisses Bauchgefühl, welches einem sagt 'JA' oder eher 'NEIN'. Hier hab ich nichts. Ich kann nicht sagen, find ich es gut oder find ich es wirklich schlecht.
Nüchtern betrachtet gibt es hier also Vor- und Nachteile:
Mila Olsen schreibt sehr sehr bildhaft, einnehmend und melodisch. Ich konnte mich bei diesem Schreibstil wirklich fallen lassen und mitnehmen lassen. Es waren ganz viele Stellen dabei, die wirklich wirklich wundervoll geschrieben waren und wo Sätze einfach so prägnant schön oder klar oder dramatisch ausgedrückt wurden, dass es mich dazu verleitet hat sie mehrfach zu lesen.
Louisa ist genau das was ich von einer 16 jährigen erwarte. Sie ist noch in vielerlei Hinsicht ein kleines Mädchen, sie ist zickig, mitten in der Pubertät und verhält sich nicht übertrieben viel reifer, als es ihrem Alter entsprechen würde.
Atmosphäre und Setting bestechen. Mila Olsen gelingt es sehr glaubhaft ein Bild von der Umgebung zu erschaffen - sowohl die positiven und schönen Seiten wie der Sommer an sich und wie alles blüht und wie warm es ist, bishin zu den negativen Seiten - Regen, Sturm, Kälte. Einsamkeit. Es trägt die Geschichte ganz wundervoll voran und ist dabei nie wirklich beschönigend - es wirkt nicht so als würde die Umgebung romantisiert werden, oder als würden manche Dinge unausgesprochen gelassen werden, damit eklige, hässliche Dinge nicht im Kopf des Lesers auftauchen.

Negativ aufgefallen sind mir aber auch so einige Dinge.
Zum einen Brendan. Ich will nicht sagen er wäre nicht gut ausgearbeitet, oder unlogisch ... fernab der Realität oder so - weil bestimmt gibt es solche Menschen wie ihn (Ich hab in einer Psychatrie Praktikum machen dürfen - ich sollte es wissen). Was mich irgendwie an ihm stört ist nicht sein Verhalten an sich - denn er ist psychisch krank, er hat offenbar Probleme, wenn er ein junges Mädchen entführt - sondern eher das manchmal die Szenen, in denen er diese Probleme zeigt, sehr kurzatmig sind und schnell verfliegen und es wirkt so als könnte Liebe alles heilen. Und das ist schlichtweg nicht so. Es ist so als wäre die Nähe zu Lou alleine genug um ihn auf den Boden der Tatsachen zurück zu bringen, und das mag natürlich helfen, aber das ist realitätsfern, denn so leicht lassen sich solche Ausbrüche nicht unterdrücken. Zumindest wirkt es auf mich so als wäre es eher ein Mittel zum Zweck um die Geschichte und vor allem die Beziehung zwischen den Beiden voran zu treiben. Da hätten ein paar mehr Seiten und mehr Tiefe nicht geschadet.
Die Geschichte an sich finde ich interessant und ich finde, dass es durchaus gut widerspiegelt, was in dem Kopf des Mädchens vorgeht und wie sich langsam aber sicher aus der Angst, Verbundenheit entwickelt und dann auch die Beziehung zwischen den Beiden.
Zum Ende hin wurde es aber sehr schnell, es wirkte sehr überstürzt - was irgendwie seine Berechtigung hatte, immerhin erklärt Brendan selbst wieso alles so kommt wie es kommt - aber es wirkte auf mich, als sollte das Buch schnell zum Schluss kommen, damit man mit einem Cliffhanger enden kann.
Was ich wiederum NULL begreife und das ist was persönliches und weniger technisch-stilistisches sondern eher zum Plot: Ich verstehe nicht wie Lous Bruder Jay sich am Ende verhält. Ich begreife es nicht. Und ich will es nicht begreifen und ich bin um ehrlich zu sein richtig sauer auf ihn. Wäre er echt, würde ich ihm die Ohren lang ziehen.
SO.

Mein Wort zum Dienstag:
Handwerklich gut, atmosphärisch, tolle Ich Perspektive mit einer glaubwürdigen Protagonistin - aber zweifelhafte psychische Lage beim männlichen Protagnisten im Sinne von stellenweise unglaubwürdige Auflösung seiner 'Anfälle' und das überspitzte, schnelle, zu überstürzte Ende, welches darauf schließen lässt, dass man einfach die Verkaufszahlen des nächsten Buches anheizen will.
Kein Must Read, aber definitiv ganz nett. Sollte man sich mit einem solchen Thema befassen wollen. Hier ist natürlich auch immer die Frage ob man sich da identifizieren kann, ob man eine sehr gefestigte Meinung zu dem Thema hat oder ob man immer noch so flexibel ist in manchen Momenten zu sagen - okay vielleicht gibt es gewisse Ausnahmen.
Ich kann das Buch definitiv keinem Empfehlen, der nicht zumindest etwas Flexibilität in seinen Prinzipien, Idealen etc hat, weil der wird es einfach nur anstößig, wahnsinnig, wahrscheinlich auch problematisch finden. Aber das ist ja manchmal der größte Reiz - sich mit den Dingen zu befassen, mit denen man sich ungerne befassen will.
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1,176 reviews58 followers
September 13, 2018
Oh man, das war ja mal was…
Ich hab da wohl eine ganz andere Meinung als alle Anderen.

Die Story ist auf jeden Fall mal was Anderes. Aber gerade das Verbotene verleiht der Idee wirklich Potential. Die Umsetzung konnte mich aber nicht überzeugen.

Teilweise hat mich der Schreibstil echt abgeholt. Vor allem Landschaft, Umgebung, und Umstände sind detailliert und anschaulich beschrieben. Irgendwann wird es aber dann zu viel und es zieht sich. Und nach all den – teilweise unnötigen – Ausschweifungen, erscheint der Schluss dann unnatürlich gerafft und erzwungen.

Allgemein hat die Geschichte mich auch überhaupt nicht gepackt und immer wenn es gerade spannend wird, werden die Situation viel zu schnell abgehandelt (wie zu Beispiel bei seinen Ausbrüchen). Das nimmt dem Ganzen die Tiefe.

Die Figuren sind toll gezeichnet. Ihre Brüder sind eigen aber liebenswert. Lou ist mit ihren 16 Jahren trotzig und zickig und Brendan ist interessant und verwegen.
Nur mochte ich die beiden einfach nicht, was die ganze Story für mich schwierig macht.

Die Entwicklung der beiden war wiederum gut. Zumindest erkennt man Brendans sensible Seite und Lou lernt im Bezug auf ihre Familie zu reflektieren.

Die Entwicklung ihrer Beziehung dagegen fand ich überhaupt nicht authentisch. Ihre wirren Gedanken sind zwar gut eingebracht, trotzdem war der Übergang zu abrupt und nicht nachvollziehbar.


Ich hatte wirklich Schwierigkeiten mit der Geschichte, will aber auch wissen wie es weitergeht. Deshalb wird Teil 2 wohl noch eine Chance bekommen...
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225 reviews17 followers
July 30, 2019
Hmm... ich kann den Hype nicht nachvollziehen 🤷‍♀️ Klar, es ist immer noch Fiktion... aber das Ganze ist wirklich so unrealistisch, dass man fast ständig mit den Augen rollen kann. Auch die Emotionen kamen für mich 0 durch. Die anfängliche Angst, der Zorn - nichts ist greifbar. Mich konnte es nicht überzeugen, war jetzt aber auch kein voller Reinfall. Es war okay 😅
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125 reviews7 followers
June 26, 2017
absolut verdiente 5 Sterne und definitiv ein Jahreshighlight!
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183 reviews6 followers
February 2, 2019
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Thank you to the author for providing ARC in exchange for honest review.

4.7 Stars

This is the first time I read from this author and I totally fell in love with the story. This ain't some normal love story between a girl and a man. Yes, I guessed wrong at first too. Although I'm glad that I got a chance to read this. This story is totally MIND BLOWING!

Highly recommend and while reading you may need a lot of patience. The story is full of ups and downs that make me feel like I'm part of the story. Part of the plot did trigger different emotions. I enjoy this story a lot!

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95 reviews30 followers
June 17, 2020
WTF? Das ist in meinen Augen keine Liebesgeschichte. Das ist eine Romantisierung und Verherrlichung einer Entführung.
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4,811 reviews632 followers
February 11, 2019
Die 16-jährige Louisa hat Ärger in der Schule und darf zur Strafe die Ferien nicht so verbringen, wie sie es eigentlich geplant hat. Stattdessen muss sie mit ihren vier Brüdern zum Campen in den Sequoia Nationalpark. Dort begegnet sie Brendan, der nur wenige Jahre älter ist als Louisa und heimlich schon lange via Internet an Louisas Leben teilnimmt. Brendan betäubt und entführt Louisa in die Wildnis Kanadas. Was hat er mit ihr vor?

Mein Leseeindruck:

Ich weiß nicht genau, was ich von diesem Buch erwartet habe, aber auf jeden Fall habe ich auf eine etwas spannendere und emotionalere Geschichte gehofft. Dieses Buch ist für jugendliche Leser, die eine - besondere - Liebesgeschichte lesen wollen, wobei ich diese Liebesgeschichte wirklich bedenklich finde.

Eigentlich könnte es eine wirklich sehr emotionale Geschichte sein. Brendan ist absolut traumatisiert, dann die ganze Entführungsgeschichte, Louisa sollte am Anfang verzweifelt und verängstigt sein - leider kamen all diese Gefühle überhaupt nicht bei mir an. Ich konnte mich in keine der Figuren hineinfühlen.

Auch dreht sich beinahe die ganze Geschichte nur um Louisa und Brendan. Das zieht sich irgendwann sehr und wird eintönig. Nur ganz zu Beginn und am Ende tauchen noch andere Figuren auf. Ich hätte es interessant gefunden, zwischendurch auch mal etwas über Louisas Brüder zu erfahren, die Suchaktion nach Louisa, usw. Davon ist leider überhaupt keine Rede.

Meinen Lesegeschmack konnte diese Geschichte nicht treffen; im Gegenteil war ich manchmal nahe dran, das Buch abzubrechen. Die Fortsetzung werde ich somit nicht mehr lesen.


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197 reviews4 followers
April 14, 2018
Eine sehr schöne Geschichte , allerdings fehlt es echt an Spannung . Leider sind auch noch viele Fragen offengeblieben, und ich hoffe das sich das noch in den anderen Bänden auflöst . Richtig packen konnte es mich leider erst zum Schluss hin.
Trotzdem werde ich die anderen Teile noch lesen , möchte ja schon wissen wie es mit denen weitergeht
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282 reviews5 followers
April 19, 2018
2,5 Sterne. Die Protagonisten haben mir leider gar nicht gefallen, außer Grey.
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1,309 reviews17 followers
August 11, 2025
Nicht wirklich was für mich. Ich glaube ich bin zu alt für dieses Buch gewesen, da die Protagonistin ich glaube 16 ist und unheimlich unreif und unsymphatisch.
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265 reviews49 followers
October 12, 2019
Obwohl das Thema ganz schön kontrovers ist und mich ständig an mir selbst hat zweifeln lassen... Ist es doch ein gelungenes und vor allem wahnsinnig spannendes Buch!
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129 reviews144 followers
April 13, 2024
At this rate I need to reread my favs because this is not it 🥹😭

They just don’t write them how they used to. 😂
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48 reviews5 followers
September 12, 2017
Man kann sich nun generell über das Thema und diese in manchen Augen "unmögliche/abstossende" Liebe aufregen. Ich fühlte mich immer mittendrin und freue mich schon darauf alles aus der anderen Sicht nun zu lesen ;) "Folgeband" ist bereits auf meinem Kindle.
Ausserdem, wenn ein Buch mich zum Weinen bringt hat es alles richtig gemacht .....
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280 reviews14 followers
May 25, 2017
Das Hörbuch war wirklich gut und mitreißend aber ich bin mir nicht sicher was ich von der Handlung an sich halten soll. So richtig überzeugt hat mich das letzte Drittel und das ende nicht. Es war einfach alles zu aufgeräumt und positiv bei dem Hintergrund der Story.
14 reviews
January 18, 2021
This book felt like a nightmare that just gets worse and worse, with a spark of hope that maybe, just maybe in the many sites of this endlessly book, it gets better.
I have read the reviews before I’ve read the book, so I had my hopes up, finally a story that is not built up on the never ending good girl and bad girl situation.

Let’s start with the main character Luoisa:
First the reveling teenage girl, which is alright, but can get pretty annoying. After getting kidnapped by Brendan she acts like her world just ended. Spoiler! She doesn’t eat, speak, sleep, or any other essential tasks. Instead of trying to get Brendan a clear head she just doesn’t do anything, except of course, her two pathetic escape attempts. Including running away with nothing but the clothes she’s wearing and some utensils, she wants to make her way through unknown woods. Which may be possible if you would have a compass or enough food, but fails through bad planning.
Tipp for victims of kidnappings:
-Try not to eat or drink anything before you run away, so you will be fast and furious
- a 10 Meter distance from your Kidnapper will already be enough, because they will probably be very slow and not be able to catch up to you
- show them pretty clearly that you may try to escape in the following minutes, days or hours
- don’t pretend to like them! It would be fatal if you wouldn’t have to wear handcuffs

Now that we all know how to react if upducted, I want to talk about Lou‘s behavior.
The way she talks just doesn’t sit right with me. The author is trying way to hard to make hear sound clever or thoughtful and their conversation in general just don’t make sense to me. But hey, Brendan is hot and mysterious, what else are they going to talk about?

The next thing I don’t like is how from one moment to the other the zoning wolf changes her whole behavior. First she is crying while telling us her story, thinking about her brothers all the time, giving herself all blame. (Her thought compromised: I’m so bad! They probably forgot about me after 1 week! I will never see anyone again! Brendan is weird and needs serious help!). But then the wolf comes and everything is fine. She falls in love with Brendan, which is quite an okay story but I will let go trough.

Brendan makes me so mad too!!!!!!
He finds Lou through Facebook and kidnapped her because she looks pretty in her pictures! A very normal persons behavior! Every time I see someone on happy looking on social media I think “wow a new victim, who will help me out of my childhood trauma! Yay”
But besides that he just isn’t normal in any way. He tries to win Lou over but instead intimidates her even more. And then after they had sex on SAND he gets regretted and let’s her free, before, of course scrutinizing everything she said. Like “I love you” after 2 month of knowing each other and most of the time not even talking.

I just can’t comprehend how this story has so good reviews. Lou is just so annoying in my eyes and honestly did the author put this quite short story in too many words. I’m tired of this book and happy it is over.
P.S. how did her brother Aiden get over the fact that she was kidnapped, could suffer from Stockholm syndrome and still let her go back to him??????
I can’t anymore, I want to wake up from this nightmare book, even though I will probably read the rest of the series...

This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
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December 12, 2019
Absolutely thought the heroine had no real redeeming qualities from the beginning. I'm sure as a teenager she was supposed to be rash and impulsive, but this girl went overboard with that. You know what they teach at a very young age to not accept 'help' from strangers if you're underage, or under weird circumstances. This book was also a tad predictable in certain instances, but knowing all this, it didn't take away from my interest. It's weird, but I love this theme, starting with Stolen: A Letter to My Captor. The setting was definitely different (Canada wilderness) and for some reason I felt that they didn't explore that as much as they did in Stolen (granted these are different authors from very different parts of the world), but the idea was still there. I didn't understand where her love for the H began.... or actually from both parties to be precise. There didn't seem to be anything remotely interesting about the h, and I doubt she had much to say on her FB page that would obsess this guy so much. She did end up warming up to me halfway to the middle, but then she started her insta-love and the eyerolling began. The H seemed a little bit more likeable, and is the reason I gave it a bit more stars than what I thought it deserved really. He was street smart that's for sure, and his background slowly unveils through the book, but because I am aware there are more volumes that have yet to be translated from the German, we may not know how their story progresses unless we know German (I definitely don't sadly). I didn't really understand or like two main things from this book, one that the brothers that were supposedly overprotective of their only sister would find out who the fellow that kidnapped her was, that she was even kidnapped in the first place, and that they welcomed their relationship to continue in the first place was completely out of character for them. Surely as overprotective and worried they were portrayed they didn't do much once they found out this information. In fact, they personally drove their sister to the site where she was kidnapped in the first place to meet her former kidnapper again...WHAT. Oh, and the second, that the H's age was 20....um. No 20 year old can concoct this type of plan to begin with.... not even the type that grew up in the environment he mentioned he did, or maybe there might be, but it's highly unbelievable. If and when some publisher decides to translate the rest of the books I will definitely read them regardless. Just saying.
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