Leigh's review posted on Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews 
 4.5 Stars - Audio Book 
 A virtual hermit, growing up held prisoner in her own home by a mother that feared to let her out into the world, Evie escapes to wander and explore a world she had only read about. Armed with a book and destination of seeing Niagara Falls, Evie's journey is immediately sidetracked by Hunter. 
 A truck driver she met on the first night of her journey, Hunter sees an innocence in Evie that he longs to possess. When his first advances are rejected, Hunter abducts Evie and steals her for his own, sparking a cross-country journey for the two of them as Evie battles first Hunter, and then herself. 
 Evie was an interesting mix. Innocent and naive in her interactions with other people, her destiny seemed to be a self-fulfilling one. Her mother kept her secreted away from a world she felt was too cruel and dangerous. But keeping her so naive only made her easy prey to those that were evil and had ill intentions. She seemed to attract the bad in the world, yet was able to maintain an outlook that enabled her to keep going. 
 While I should have been appalled by this story of a woman who is kidnapped by a stranger and forced to stay with him as his companion as they traveled, I found myself slowly slipping under the spell of the author and the tale she spun. I think I experienced Stockholm Syndrome as much as Evie, because somewhere along the way, I started to care about Hunter. He was a man that did bad things, but he was not a bad man. He had been forged by society, as much as Evie had been molded by its absence, and I found him to be an enigma: he did things that were wrong, but he had a sense of values. He hurt people, but had the ability to also be hurt. 
 I knew that Ms. Warren had written a wonderful story when I realized that I didn't want Evie to escape. I wanted her to stay with Hunter and understand what had made him into the sort of man he had become. I wanted her to keep him as much as he wanted to keep her. I was rooting for the "bad guy" that showed glimpses of the caring and moral person he once was and could still become. 
 Listening to this as an audiobook was actually an interesting experience for me. The narrator read this story at a lot slower of a pace than I would have, and at first I found myself frustrated. I wanted her to go faster. But once I got used to it, the cadence and the tempo, I feel that I appreciated the story more than I would have if I breezed through it on my own. I was able to savor the descriptiveness of the story and let the prose wash over me. This book was beautifully told, and I was forced to slow down and experience it as Evie did, taking in the horrors and beauty that unfolded around her. 
 Wanderlust is not a book for everyone. It was dark and meandered down the illicit back roads of what would be considered acceptable. But it was beautifully written, full of longing and sorrow and redemption and I fell immediately under its spell. 
 Audio Book provided for an honest review.