Candy

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Summary: Constantly Surprises
Review: Before he met Candy, Joe Beck was a guitarist and not much else. Before she met Joe, Candy was a beautiful teenage prostitute who lived for drugs. But when, by chance, the two happen to meet on a London streetcorner, a painful struggle begins for Joe as he tries to free Candy from her heroin addiction. Candy will give almost anyone a new perspective on the world of drugs.
In Candy, Kevin Brooks constantly surprises readers with a sudden plot twist that keeps the pages turning. The final scenes in particular were unexpected and provided readers with the necessary interest. Although some encounters throughout the book become rather repetitive and predictable, interest in the outcome of Joe's and Candy's struggle keeps readers hooked. Only the key characters are well-developed, so Brooks pulls several flat characters out of his portfolio to bring to life the world that Candy and Joe live in. Candy is one of the more interesting books of its genre. The book's vocabulary and topics are perfect for its target age group, teenagers. FROM FLAMINGNET.COM
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Summary: engrossing...just a little bit not believable
Review: candy is a very engrossing novel full of intrigue...the characters are interesting but a little underdevelopled...the language is also at times a little clunky in that it is out of character or just not the way a character of that age would speak...in theater there is a something called the "willing suspension of disbelief." it is basically the audience's willingness to go along with the plot of the characters on stage no matter how far-fetched it may seem...the audience allows themselves to feel for the characters for however long they are watching the show...well with this book i felt it was difficult at points to be able to believe what was going on because of the underdevelopement of the characters...i didn't know them well enough to feel much about them...i only felt for them when they where in dire situations.