A review by sde
The Stolen Ones by Owen Laukkanen

3.0

I was looking for a quick and engaging read, and this fit the bill. It read just like an action movie, and I kept turning the pages to find out what would happen. There was a fair bit of violence. I was afraid there would be some scenes that I just couldn't read given the topic of the book - Eastern European girls lured to the US with the promise of jobs and instead forced into sex slavery - but luckily the most extreme violence mostly did not involve the girls and the description of it was quick. I would definitely read another book by this author if I needed an escape. The ending was far-fetched. Police would not be shooting willy-nilly in the middle of Manhattan even to save a kidnapped teenage girls, but, like I said above, it read like an action movie.