Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
On Sale Date: May 2nd 2017
Pages: 288
Age Range: Young Adult
Candy hates being in boarding school. But as her estrangedfather is a rock star and is always on tour, there is no other solution. But her boredom suddenly is replaced for something else, as on a random day some stranger pulls her into a car and she is kidnapped. Movie fan Candy has seen enough movies feauturing a kidnapping to know what will happen next; they will threaten her and her father to pay ransom. Which she knows her father will never ever pay.
But slowly on, she learns that her kidnapping isn't the most bad thing after all. At least she is freed from boarding school and it is actually great material for the documentary she is filming. She gets to know one of her capturers, Levon. sSlowly on she learns why he and his partner-in-crime kidnapped Candy. It's all a revenge of them. The kidnapping turns into a crazy rollercoaster of a road trip, where they get lost of the mastermind of the kidnapping and find a lot of wrong ways to do the right thing
It was quite odd to find out the main character acted so relaxed about a serious kidnapping. This is one of those books that is nice to read, but hard to retell afterwards. The writing was fun and the plot was anything but boring. This is also one of the plots where you have no clue what will happen next. Candy really finds herself in some odd and crazy circumstances and events in the road trip the kidnapping turns into. It was a bit unbelievable though that she fell in love with Levon. But hey, it's fiction so anything can happen. And afterwards maybe her father just contributed to all the events without even knowing it.
Overall an original story with some crazy turns and weird turns and twist. Not the best one I have read but it certainly is a bad read.