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A review by sandrareilly513
Amy Chelsea Stacie Dee by Mary G. Thompson
4.0
Six years ago, eight-year-old Amy and ten-year-old Dee were kidnapped. Now Amy shows up at her childhood door, alone and unwilling to share what happened in the remote cabin where she was kept prisoner. Everyone wants to know what happened to Dee -- is she still alive, was she hurt -- but Amy can't talk about it. As she fights to figure out how she became "Chelsea" and if she can ever be "Amy" again, she also has to come to terms with how Dee became "Stacie" and would never be "Dee" ever again. She's hiding a lot from those she loves, those who are thrilled to have her home, but there are secrets she must keep in order to survive, even after escaping her prison.
Thoughts: What a beautiful yet heartbreaking story. Thompson reels readers in with the story of two young girls kidnapped and kept prisoner in a remote cabin for six years, scared and begging for their lives. Used against one another, their kidnapper keeps them captive by threatening the life of the other, leaving them to never feel they could risk running away without the other being killed. And how it comes to be that Amy/Chelsea is able to escape is shocking, for lack of a better word. In a vein similar to [b:Room|31685789|Room|Emma Donoghue|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1472239721s/31685789.jpg|9585076] and the famous Cleveland case of the young girls who escaped their captor, Thompson's Amy Chelsea Stacie Dee will haunt readers long after the last page.
Thoughts: What a beautiful yet heartbreaking story. Thompson reels readers in with the story of two young girls kidnapped and kept prisoner in a remote cabin for six years, scared and begging for their lives. Used against one another, their kidnapper keeps them captive by threatening the life of the other, leaving them to never feel they could risk running away without the other being killed. And how it comes to be that Amy/Chelsea is able to escape is shocking, for lack of a better word. In a vein similar to [b:Room|31685789|Room|Emma Donoghue|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1472239721s/31685789.jpg|9585076] and the famous Cleveland case of the young girls who escaped their captor, Thompson's Amy Chelsea Stacie Dee will haunt readers long after the last page.