The Stolen

Review

Another good book in the series. Chloe finds out a lot about what is happening and has happened to her and “her” people, the Mai. A lot of mythology and ancient history is brought up, and we see how the two groups (Tenth Blade and Mai) are stuck in their perpetual hate cycle over events thousands of years old, something which is repeated in today's world by various countries who refuse to let go of the distant past.

Synopsis

This continues Chloe's story, starting out by very briefly reviewing her fight with the Rogue from the first book in the series, noting that she has a friend named Alyec, and then moving on to her staying at a center where some people are literally part feline.

Chloe finds out she is of the Mai, “People of the Lions. The Desert Hunters. Children of Bastet and Sekhmet.” There's an entire group, the Tenth Blade, that exists to kill her and people like her. She also finds out that she can't mate with a human; it would kill him.

She finds out more about the background of the people who form the prides, and how they came from Egypt. Chloe's relationship to Brian is important throughout the entire book.

At the mai headquarters, Chloe meets a cat-girl named Kim, and Kim tells her some of the mythological history of the mai. Later, Chloe escapes to visit her mother but is attacked by two guys. She gets out of that and later goes on an actual hunt with other female mai, chasing down and killing a deer.

Both Brian and Chloe come to the conclusion that the groups they are in are really cults. The Tenth Blade kidnaps Chloe's mother, and Chloe finds out a sister she had was murdered by the Tenth Blade.

Chloe arranges a meeting, but things go bad and she is shot to death, but comes alive again. This would make her a potential leader of both groups, and that doesn't sit well with either. Brian's father (Tenth Blade) swears a fatwa on his own son, saying it's ok to kill him, while Sergi (Mai) makes arrangements for Chloe to be murdered.

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