I did learn some new facts about blindness, though.
It wasn't bad, but it could have better is all I'm saying. Some scenes were better done than others, but overall it lacked the urgency and panic I would expect from a kidnapping novel.
Even though Henry tried to give her characters some depth through really obvious info dumps (sometimes the book read like a text book, I swear), she really didn't dive that deep into the psychology of being kidnapped. The book would have been more intense if all the angles had been played. It would have been better if we didn't know Griffin was completely good guy, if there was some doubt over his good intentions, something dangerous about him other than his father. I knew from the 2nd chapter that Griffin was never going to let anything bad happen to her. I never really believed Cheyenne was in any great danger.
This book, although it was suspenseful in several scenes, lacked an edge. Cheyenne, impeded by her lack of sight and worsening illness, knows she must escape, because she isn't so sure her kidnappers plan on returning her to her family alive. But once Griffin's father discovers Cheyenne is the daughter of Nike's CEO, the crime quickly elevates to a ransom situation. Griffin takes both the car and Cheyenne to his criminal father, thinking that the car could be a present and they would drop Cheyenne off somewhere. Griffin, the car thief, just reacted when he saw the keys in the ignition, not noticing the girl in the backseat until it was too late to turn back. Sixteen-year-old Cheyenne Wilder, blind and sick with pneumonia, is napping in the back seat of her step-mother's Escalade when someone gets in the car and drives away. I figured Girl, Stolen, a book of similar premise and title, would have to do. I read Girl, Stolen because some bastard at my library stole Stolen: A letter to my captor (yes, the irony is not lost on me).
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