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A review by flogigyahoo
The Stolen Ones by Owen Laukkanen
2.0
I really enjoyed the first three books in Owen Laukkanen's Windermere and Stevens series and was glad to see he had written another two. Alas, the 4th in the series is quite simply bad. This is hack writing, the plot is ridiculous and illogical.
Two sisters are packed into a container with other hapless young girls and shipped from Eastern Europe to be sold to the highest bidder in the USA by The Dragon, a murderous thug who likes young girls. Irena and Catrina are scared witless at the thought of what will happen to them yet Irena manages to escape her kidnappers and be picked up by Windermere and Stevens. She escapes from them too planning to find Catrina despite having no money, no English, no knowledge of the country and still afraid of everyone, men especially but women as well. How she can have learned to drive is a mystery. By the last third of the book the plot turns even sillier and the ending is totally expected. Give this one a pass.
Two sisters are packed into a container with other hapless young girls and shipped from Eastern Europe to be sold to the highest bidder in the USA by The Dragon, a murderous thug who likes young girls. Irena and Catrina are scared witless at the thought of what will happen to them yet Irena manages to escape her kidnappers and be picked up by Windermere and Stevens. She escapes from them too planning to find Catrina despite having no money, no English, no knowledge of the country and still afraid of everyone, men especially but women as well. How she can have learned to drive is a mystery. By the last third of the book the plot turns even sillier and the ending is totally expected. Give this one a pass.