STILL
S
MISS
SING
G
Ch
hevy Stevens
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s
ISBN: 0‐312‐573577‐X * Trade Pap
perback * 368
8 pp. St. M
Martin’s Griffin * May, 2011 ABO
OUT THE AUTTHOR: Chevy Stevens grew
w up on a ranch on Vaancouver Isla nd and still caalls the
e island home. When she’ss not working on herr next book, she’s hiking w
with her husbaand and dogg in the local mountains. SStill Missing iss her first novvel. Visit Chevvy at www.chhevystevens.ccom or find herr on Facebookk. D
DISCUSSI
ION GUID
DE
1. How wou
uld you des
scribe Annie
e's charactter...especiially those qualities that enable
e her
o survive her
h ordeal at
a the hand
ds of The Freak?
F
How
w well migh
ht you have
e fared?
to
2. At some point durin
ng captivity
y, Annie be
egins to alm
most like T
The Freak. She goes tto
ar as to admit that "s
sometimes he's kinda sweet." A
Although ide
entifying w
with a capto
or is
fa
a known phenomenon
n—referred to as the "Stockholm
"
m Syndrom
me" in psych
hiatric
parlance—h
how do thos
se feelings develop in
n Annie?
3. Are the early
e
parts of the novel, the sex
x scenes, to
oo lurid forr your taste
e—do you
onsider the
em sensational. Or arre they an integral pa
art of the p
plot, necess
sary for us
s to
co
grasp Annie
e's tormentted state?
4. Is "The Freak"
F
a go
ood name fo
or Annie's abductor? What wou ld you hav
ve called him?
D
Describe him
m.
5. Chevy Sttevens has written he
er book as a flashback
ng back into
o
k, the pressent peerin
he past. We know at the outset, therefore
e, that Ann ie escapes her ordeal. Why mig
ght
th
th
he author have
h
structtured her book
b
in suc
ch a way?
afe with him. There's
6. David-Th
he-Freak te
ells Annie th
hat she is perfectly
p
sa
s a degree of
ement. How
w so? (Con
nsider whatt happens when she escapes to
o
irronic truth in his state
frreedom.)
7. Describe what Annie finds onc
ce she retu
urns home—
—starting w
with her mother and the
at took herr father's and sibling's
s lives. The
en there's tthe old boy
yfriend, Luke,
accident tha
as well as her best frie
end.
8. What pro
ompts Annie to realize
e that her captivity w
was intentio
onally set-u
up by some
eone
n her old liffe?
in
9. What is the
t
significa
ance of the
e title, "Still Missing"?
?
10. In all, does this bo
ook deliverr? Were you held in s uspense? O
Or did you find it
? Was the ending
e
satiisfying?
predictable?
Courtes
sy Molly Lu
undquist fr
rom LitLove
ers.com - Re
esources forr Book Clubs
s & Readers
s