This year, Thea is convinced her cousin is the fourth...
I'll be honest. I skimmed parts of this.
It's really a story of two halves; Aulus, trapped underground as a prisoner of the Gemini Thief, writes letters to his cousin Thea to tell her what's been happening. Above ground, Thea searches endlessly for him, even when everyone is telling her not to.
Aulus' story is reminiscent of The Bunker Diary, if you're familiar with that...another book you should read, though it has a much less happy outcome than this. Thea's story is a detective outing, along with maybe feelings for her friend Nick. I enjoyed Aulus' more than Thea's, but that's going to be very subjective, and I read the entire last fifteen or twenty percent of the story without skipping at all.
It's not a bad read in any way; just that parts of it didn't engage me, so I've marked it down a little. Overall, a good, interesting read.
The Gemini Thief could be anyone. Your father, your mother, your best friend’s crazy uncle. Some country music star’s deranged sister. Anyone.
The Gemini Thief is a serial kidnapper, who takes three boys and holds them captive from June 1st to June 30th of the following year. The June Boys endure thirteen months of being stolen, hidden, observed, and fed before they are released, unharmed, by their masked captor. The Thief is a pro, having eluded authorities for nearly a decade and taken at least twelve boys.
Now Thea Delacroix has reason to believe the Gemini Thief took a thirteenth victim: her cousin, Aulus McClaghen.
But the game changes when one of the kidnapped boys turns up dead. Together with her boyfriend Nick and her best friends, Thea is determined to find the Gemini Thief and the remaining boys before it’s too late. Only she’s beginning to wonder something sinister, something repulsive, something unbelievable, and yet, not impossible:
What if her father is the Gemini Thief?
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