{"id":2183,"date":"2022-05-26T21:36:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T21:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2183"},"modified":"2023-03-11T18:43:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T18:43:48","slug":"after-we-were-stolen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2183","title":{"rendered":"After We Were Stolen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Avery lives outside in a tent while her family sleeps inside. Over the years, she\u2019s learned to start her own fires; sometimes it doesn\u2019t work and she\u2019s freezing and hungry, but things aren\u2019t much better for her nine siblings inside. Their parents, cult leaders preparing the family for when they\u2019re the only ones left on Earth, emphasize toughness over all else. The children get their hopes up when the parents announce a buddy system, but it turns out that your buddy is the one who will be punished if you leave, so escape seems unthinkable. Avery finds a way out, though, accompanied by her little brother Cole, only to discover that they\u2019re famous in the outside world as victims of years-ago child abductions. What happened the night the pair escaped and how they will navigate notoriety and society\u2019s expectations are mysteries that will keep readers rapt. Also engrossing are the overwhelming emotions involved with both staying and going, the realization that just because the biggest problem is over doesn\u2019t mean everything is rosy, and the ways tormented people treat one another even when survival is no longer at stake. <strong>Avery has grit and attitude to spare and will stay with readers long after the last page.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avery lives outside in a tent while her family sleeps inside. Over the years, she\u2019s learned to start her own fires; sometimes it doesn\u2019t work and she\u2019s freezing and hungry,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[94,101,127,82,53],"class_list":["post-2183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-coming-of-age","tag-family-life","tag-siblings","tag-small-town-rural","tag-women"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/After-We-Were-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/After-We-Were.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Henrietta Thornton","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}