Review: I loved Ransom
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 16, 2014
This was so refreshing for me.  I have come off a string of 2 – 3 star reviews and 2 DNFs and I was starting to doubt my book picking abilities.In Ransom Daisy and Daltrey meet when they are 5 years old and bond over the fact that neither of them have their mothers.Daltrey and his brothers go on to form a rock band under the guidance of their father, Daisy helped out in the beginning, but then something happened that had Daisy pushing them all away.  As you can see from the blurb, she doesn’t talk to people, she doesn’t reach out, she wants to live in complete isolation.And Daltrey let her.He was confused and upset.  He didn’t understand why she pushed him away completely.  They had been best friends forever and now they weren’t anything.So the story goes.I loved it.  I loved the interaction between Daltrey and his brothers, between Daisy and her friends, especially Paige, his friend Levi, who had some very good points to make at one moment in the book.This is a coming of age story, a story of finding out you are stronger than you thought, a story of survival and not letting our past and things beyond our control break us, and a beautiful love story about two best friends finding their way back to each other.I cannot wait to see what comes next for the brothers since this is book 1.  I really cannot wait to read Cash’s story when we get to it.Thank you to NetGalley for my copy of Ransom.