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Candy

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Kevin Brooks, author of Kissing the Rain, Martyn Pig, Lucas excels at portraying the gritty details of English underclass life, and here, in a story of a boy desperately in love, he has written an irresistibly suspenseful and compelling YA novel.
When Joe Beck, a fifteen-year-old suburban kid, gets lost in a disreputable neighborhood on his way to an appointment in London,...more

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Published 2006 by Chicken House (first published January 1st 2005)

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Apr 30, 2011 jzhunagev rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Lovelorn teens... /wrist

Recommended to jzhunagev by: the "Voice"

Shelves: 2011-reads, award-winning-best-seller, comedy, drama, dark-chest-of-wonders, fiction-contemporary, romance-love-story, young-adult

Love’s Another Drug
(A Book Review of Kevin Brooks’s Candy)

It’s hard to imagine life without Candy.

Addiction is a word most of us are familiar with and all of us have his/her vices, fixes we hanker for from time to time. But how powerful can an addiction be and how far can we go to satisfy this burning need?

Joe Beck is your average fifteen-year-old teen living a comfortable life in the suburbs of London; he gets by in his school studies and cares pretty much about his music playing bass for a ban...more

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May 21, 2010 Kristina rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: third-term-reading

Candy, LOVE is Dangerous.
Brooks, Kevin
PUSH, 2007

This gripping and provocative love novel basically falls under the genre of teen fiction. With unstoppable and naive romance, Kevin Brooks (author) portrays your typical boy-girl scenario attracting the attention of adolescent readers/audiences.

"I just cant see myself without her. About the best I can manage is the last half hour before we met, when I was just still a boy. I was innocent then." Joe Beck was your typical fifteen year old suburban hi...more Candy, LOVE is Dangerous.
Brooks, Kevin
PUSH, 2007

This gripping and provocative love novel basically falls under the genre of teen fiction. With unstoppable and naive romance, Kevin Brooks (author) portrays your typical boy-girl scenario attracting the attention of adolescent readers/audiences.

"I just cant see myself without her. About the best I can manage is the last half hour before we met, when I was just still a boy. I was innocent then." Joe Beck was your typical fifteen year old suburban high school student. Mindlessly getting by with school, Joe played the guitar in a band known as the Katies. Living under the roof of his divorced parents, Joe shared a house with his father and his older sister, Gina. Gina unravels later on in the novel that she is understanding and accepting with whatever choices her little brother chooses to make. Having to deal with her father's racism over her future husband "Mike" she supports any person with no judgement. With a simple and moderately average life, Joe had gained the title as "Average Joe", that is all until he mistakingly met a beautifully, wrecked Candy on the streets of London. As the quote above reads, Joe had an everyday normal teenage life but the transformation that progressed during the amount of time he had spent with Candy, had transformed him into a man with knowledge and a man who had grown deeply in love.

"I don't know how it happened but everything suddenly changed. I was a woman, I couldn't get enough of it. I was hooked." Candy is the alternative main-character. Unlike Joe Beck, Candy had a more difficult child hood on the more real estate part of town. Throughout her child hood, Candy had always been a good looking girl. She'd be the kind of girl that mothers would be proud of and the ones that fathers would over protect. Everyone loved a pretty girl. As she grew older and older, she'd blossomed into the kind of girl that men couldn't resist and the kind of girl that every other girl envied. The author had described that soon enough, jealousy had overwhelmed her closest friends which derived them to reject her. Further on in her years, Candy had carelessly dropped everything and ended up on the streets of London where she drowned her sorrows in men and heroin with her whore house pimp "Iggy". Iggy is later on unraveled as violent and manipulative.

After having several few encounters with Candy, Joe realizes that there's more to life than just school and music. He shockingly falls deeply in love with a beautiful stranger that he barely knows. Throughout his loving obsession, Candy unravels some unflattering truths about herself including being a prostitute, along with a heroin addict. With nothing holding Joe back (Like Candy's threatening pimp, Iggy) he'll do anything for his desire to help Candy with her miserable life. Together, they go through tremendous pains and difficulties to straighten out her life back in order.

This novel is basically set with your classic forbidden love, some-what theme. The story is told straightly from the perspective of the main character Joe Beck which creates a phenomenon sense to the reader. As the reader, you are placed in the shoes of a naive boy attempting to increase his love for a girl he barely even knows which creates a common text connection with high school relationships. The descriptive writing and creativity kept the reader wanting more and more of what would reveal in the next chapter. What was successfully enjoyable throughout this novel was the unique sense of admirable danger. The capability to capture their oddly hypnotic feel for love definitely helped with the twisted plot.

The message that the author could've wanted to expose was the strong sense of the encouraging fight for love that could occur when too attached/obsessed with love. All in all, the novel was filled with irresistible events, unstoppable love and provocative danger. The author had written an almost exquisite novel about two completely opposite strangers falling completely and mistakingly in love.

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Feb 02, 2008 Madeline is currently reading it · review of another edition

So far, so awesome.

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Jan 23, 2013 Kelly added it · review of another edition

I loved this book! It included lots of action, some romance, and some thrilling parts, too. The main character is a boy named Joe. He goes into town for a specialized doctor but ends up meeting a girl at a fast food restaurant. Not just any girl. She was amazing in Joe’s eyes. She was beautiful and kind! At that fast food restaurant he meets someone who seems to be her pimp and he thinks she's a prostitute. But even though Joe thinks she is a prostitute, it does not stop him from liking her or t...more

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Jan 12, 2009 Jaemi rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, ya-fiction

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Joe Beck’s life is pretty run-of-the-mill. Parents separated, doesn’t get on so well with his father, goes to school, plays with a band, tries to stay out of trouble. And then he meets Candy.

Something about her draws him right in. He can’t believe she’s talking to him. That he could be so lucky. And when he gets chased off by a very large and very scary Iggy, who can only be her Pimp, he can’t believe that either. He mulls it over for a week, after finding her number in his pocket, then calls to...more Joe Beck’s life is pretty run-of-the-mill. Parents separated, doesn’t get on so well with his father, goes to school, plays with a band, tries to stay out of trouble. And then he meets Candy.

Something about her draws him right in. He can’t believe she’s talking to him. That he could be so lucky. And when he gets chased off by a very large and very scary Iggy, who can only be her Pimp, he can’t believe that either. He mulls it over for a week, after finding her number in his pocket, then calls to ask her out, knowing it’s the only thing to do.

At the Zoo she seems so normal. She explains Iggy away as some guy who’s just a little crazy. Joe wants to believe it, so he does. When she leaves him in the cafe to go to the bathroom and comes back changed, he understands she must use drugs, but he doesn’t give that much thought either. She likes him. He likes her.

But when she comes to his Band’s show only to be dragged off by Iggy and his hoarde, a fight which gets Joe’s brother-in-law to be injured, things come to a head. With nowhere left to turn, he finally tells his sister everything. Unable to believe there’s nothing he can do to help, and unable to get Candy on the phone, as soon as his dad’s left for his business trip, Joe takes off, losing all cares about being grounded.

He takes a train back to the spot where he first stumbled into her. Nothing. He wanders around London, trying to find somewhere within 10 minutes that could be the spot where she lives. If that part was true. Ready to admit defeat, he’s heading back to catch another train when he spots Iggy leaving the station, and gets it in his head to follow him.

After being led to the house, he hides in the bushes for quite awhile, making his move when an elderly woman loaded down with shopping bags arrives. He helps her carry them in, then takes off up the stairs to find Candy. And find her he does–severely battered and bruised. Broken, she tells him everything. How she came to be here, how it went so far. They’re concocting a plan to get her out of there when Iggy returns. There’s no saying if Joe could have stayed hidden in the bathroom if his cell phone hadn’t rung. But it did. And things very suddenly became life or death.

With a straight-edge razor held to his throat, Joe is staring at the end, when Candy breaks a lamp against Iggy’s head. They quickly bind him up with tape, and take off into the night. They stop at Joe’s house for supplies, then board another train, heading for the summer cottage. The plan is to get Candy clean, then take it from there. Iggy won’t find them. He’s sure of it, despite a nagging at the back of his brain.

But just when the worst of it seems over, when Candy seems to be herself again, and not a withdrawl insane version, Joe realizes just what kind of trouble he’s in. Iggy has his sister. He can find them, because Joe tells him exactly where they are. Any bargaining power he had has gone. Even with Mike on the way to help, there’s no knowing if he’ll beat Iggy to them, or what they can do even if he does.

In the end, it turns out in a way no one would have imagined.

Time goes by, but Joe can’t remember how life was before Candy. All he can do is struggle to find his way back to it.(less)

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Apr 20, 2013 Laura deLuna rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Kevin Brooks' novels should come with a warning label. Something along the lines of WARNING: THE ENDING OF THIS NOVEL WILL EITHER A) BE REALLY DEPRESSING OR B) END WITH SOME SORT OF UNRESOLVED RESOLUTION.

its not that I don't love his books. I love his books so very much actually. its just that the endings of his books... they are not very happy. there is a sense of finality and sometimes brutal honesty that really leaves you feeling... sad I guess.

the endings are a lot like Stephen King endings:...more

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Dec 20, 2012 Nicole rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

1. Plot Overview (Don’t give the ending away!) What did you like about the plot? Did it move quickly or slowly? What didn’t you like? Was it interesting or not? Why? Give details!

The plot moved extremely slow, thats why i liked it, it gave so much intensity and it defined every detail of a solution, and problem that was going on in the book, with the main characters Candy and Joe. It was very interesting, and intense, it keeps you wondering Why, and How. The way Candy's life is so harsh, and the...more

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Jan 23, 2011 Phillip rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Have you ever wonder what life was if it was filled with drugs and a combination of a deadly love? If you did, then this book is right for you. In this book, the main character Joe falls in love with a prostitute named Candy and his whole life is flipped upside down. This book is filled with a lot of detailed plot and brings you into a mystery world of drug lords and prostitutes.
Joe struggles with life after he met Candy and seems to fall deeply for her doing things he would never do before l...more

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Aug 02, 2010 Ev rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Kevin Brooks is a great writer who captures the reality of life in his books. Candy is a perfect example of that. In today’s society many teenagers end up at the bottom of existence, whether it was their choice or not. This is very provocative and suspenseful story about two teenagers that simply feel in love.

However, nothing is simple about their love. Candy’s troubled life brings down completely Joe’s simple yet empty life. When the reader follows the story of those two teens, he can’t help bu...more

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Jun 02, 2010 Crystal rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Candy by Kevin Brooks was a book that made you want to read more. It took two characters that live two completely different lives from one another and intertwined them into one story. A story filled with a passionate love. Although they may be different in the ways of living they do share one thing in common there affection for one another. Candy is a prostitute who is addicted to heroine and is involved with violence; on the other hand Joe is a normal boy w...more Crystal sosa
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Candy by Kevin Brooks was a book that made you want to read more. It took two characters that live two completely different lives from one another and intertwined them into one story. A story filled with a passionate love. Although they may be different in the ways of living they do share one thing in common there affection for one another. Candy is a prostitute who is addicted to heroine and is involved with violence; on the other hand Joe is a normal boy who plays and instrument but misses the olden days when there family was united. Although these two teens are suffering inside they maintain to have love flaming inside them. I believe that it is their love that keeps them alive with hope/optimism.
Just like many couples in our society, Joe and Candy face overwhelming situations. It seems that there love could never be left alone and looked at. It is like a scientific experiment that fails to succeed. It is a love that can be related to Romeo and Juliet’s. It seemed that no matter what extent these two love birds went to they would have to pay the consequences. Candy would get beaten and as for Joe just got lectures. They went beyond there extent in order to see each other. They ran away together but either way that didn’t quit work out. The ending result was horrible Gina Joe’s sister was kidnapped by Iggy Candy’s pimp. But candy was tired of him and his troubles and killed him. She sacrificed her love to save a life and end her own. Her love for Joe allowed her to do this.
Since the first day they laid eyes on each other they connected to one another. Boy meets girl, girl smiles at boy, he buys her a doughnut, she tickles his fingers, he turns to jelly, then boy meets pimp and scares him to death and boy goes home feeling stupid. But they continued to talk secretly and fell in love. Candy Supported Joe with his music which brang much hope into his music. Because she was the only one who cared. He continued to feel happy and think of other possible ways. As for candy she felt
In conclusion these two teens managed to have a happy relationship. It is love that keeps you motivated and makes your days shine bright. It is love that makes these two teens go to any extent in order to be happy with one another. They are willing to do anything for one another just to be with each other.
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May 16, 2010 ØrionSof2014 rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 8-grade-ir-books-betts

I thought this book was very powerful and well written. This book is about a teenage boy named Joe who meets a heroin addicted girl named Candy. Candy likes Joe but Joe is attached to her. Joe will do anything for Candy even if it means risking his own life. Joe wants to protect Candy from all the bad things in the world, there are to many things for Joe to try to stop. He try's to get Candy to stop using Heroin and he try's to stop Candy from having a pimp.
I can make a text to world connection....more

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Apr 30, 2010 Jessica rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 25-books

Candy by Kevin Brooks is about a young man in Liverpool, England who one day meets this girl who seems to actually be a hooker. She works for her pimp to get heroin, an addictive drug that many people would die for. As sweet as she is, she is on a tight leach with her pimp. After this young man falls in love with this girl named Candy, he gets involved with her life a little bit too much, and feels that he can save her. He has to try to get her away from her pimp. He has to try to make her stop...more

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Apr 09, 2010 Brooke added it · review of another edition

Shelves: urban-street-lit, young-adult

Summary

Joe, a white, upper-middle class, suburban Englander, and Candy, a young, white, teen prostitute meet briefly in the London Underground and share a quick meal at McDonalds, until it is interrupted by Candy’s angry pimp, Iggy. Joe, whose own life is run of the mill and uneventful, can’t stop thinking about Candy, and her exciting life and mesmerizing aura, for weeks. Joe writes a song about her and performs it, and tells his sister and her boyfriend all about her. Joe goes to great lengths...more

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Apr 06, 2010 Christine rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: grade-8-ir-books-sam

Candy is about a teenager named Joe Beck who was raised in a single-parent family. He met a girl named Candy at a train station in London, and became in love with her, but then he soon figured that Candy was not just a ordinary girl. She had a dark life full of violence, sex, and drugs. Because of how deeply Joe was in love with her, he is willing to save Candy from her dark life and her pimp"Iggy" before any other conflict starts to happen.

Candy would not be the only girl who had a dark past wi...more

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May 27, 2009 Rainie added it · review of another edition

Book Review
This book is basically about a boy named Joe who lets us follow his journey as he tries to get the girl he has fallen for named Candy. Joe saw a pretty girl and that she was perfect but came to realize that there was to Candy then he thought; she was a prostitute who had a drug problem and was controlled by a terrifying pimp. Even though Joe knew that Candy was not what he expected he still really liked her and was intrigued by her. I really understood what the author Kevin Brooks was...more

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Dec 15, 2011 Haleyehs rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

"Candy" Book Review
Have you felt a “connection” with someone and don’t know how to deal with it? Well if you do, you are in the same position as Joe. He has no idea what to say to Candy when he first meets her. She is so beautiful and he thought of himself as dorky and awkward.
The book “Candy” is about a young boy, Joe who’s very quiet and polite. And then there’s Candy, who is very loud but polite as well. When they met, Joe was didn’t know what to say to her and was outspoken. Joe see’s her ag...more

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Oct 02, 2010 Erin rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Um, I don't really know what to say about this book. I have mixed feelings about whether I liked it or not. Okay, I did like it , but at the same time I thought it was kind of pointless and pretty predictable. The main thing I hated about the book was its ending - one that didn't really resolve anything, which probably would've changed this entire review.

But let's get down into the basics: This book was a quick-paced read and the beginning towards the middle cut were pretty BORING and a little r...more Um, I don't really know what to say about this book. I have mixed feelings about whether I liked it or not. Okay, I did like it , but at the same time I thought it was kind of pointless and pretty predictable. The main thing I hated about the book was its ending - one that didn't really resolve anything, which probably would've changed this entire review.

But let's get down into the basics: This book was a quick-paced read and the beginning towards the middle cut were pretty BORING and a little rushed (especially at the beginning). But there were scenes - one mainly with Candy, where I was so immersed in the action and the druggy world of this one girl who'd changed Joe's world forever. I give credits to the author, Kevin Brooks, because his book Candy gave this vivid depiction of the dark world of drugs and prostitution, as well as the lethal pimps who will go to extreme lengths for "their" girls, money, and most importantly their pride. I would'nt go and say that this book was a good love story or anything like that, but I thought Brooks did very well in talking about Candy's addiction...it felt real (her emotions and anxiety and such).

It's not one of those reads that leaves you going, "Wow, that was fantastic" or "damn, that was a powerful story" because I've read better than this. But still, I loved how Brooks brought up a story where it involved a fairly innocent teen boy who develops an attachment to a girl he meets, one of whom needs some saving from a very dangerous underground world. I could definitely see this happening in today's society, but towards the very end it seemed a little too dramatic and unlikely. But in any case, there was a good amount of realism and gradually the dark style of writing pulls you deeper in the same way Joe (the main character) gets pulled into a much darker reality. Despite my three star rating, whether you like this novel or not (cause I have a lot of mixed feelings about it), but give it a try because one you start...you can't stop, cause you WANT to know what happens in the end.

Overall, not one of my favorites that deals with drugs and a troubled girl, but it's definitely worth reading if you're into this sort-of genre.(less)

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Jan 11, 2012 Michelle rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: all-time-favorites, compelling-reads

Candy was compelling, in more ways than one. The dark details of a girl that had once been wealthy & happy, now dragged into the underworld - it was unlike any story I have ever come across before. Kevin Brooks did a fine job on writing the vivid affection that Joe felt for Candy; and though the chapters were simple, each word struck tight of emotion and meaning.

As Candy's story and true nature was unfolded through Joe's point of view, it drew my interest in finding out who Candy really was....more

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Apr 08, 2010 cheyenne rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: grde-8-ir-books-senorita-michan

the plot in this book was a boy name Joe. Meet's a girl and falls for her. And her name is Candy. And every since he saw her his life has been changing like crazy. He gets grounded and sneak's out of the house. And has his sister call the school and say he's sick so he can meet up with Candy. At the zoo and they hang out there all day long. he risk's his life for Candy.
I can connect to this book becuase when he first met Candy. He was confused on where to go. And Candy asked him if he needed h...more

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Oct 04, 2010 Laura-Blaise rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I read this book when I was thirteen, again when I was sixteen and the third time just a little while ago, after I turned eighteen, and somehow, still, it sinks into my veins and leaves me wanting more, leaves me breathless as if for the first time. The epitome of the 'coming of age/first love' theme, it encapulates the poignant feelings and the rabid passion of experiencing danger, love, loss and lonliness for the first time. Joe Beck, the main protaginist, is, unusually I find, though not for...more

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Sep 14, 2012 Lisa Benenati rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

When fifteen year old Joe goes into London for a doctor's visit, he doesn't realize it will be a trip that will change his life forever. After getting out at the station he runs into Candy, a beautiful girl that sweeps him off his feet immediately. In his mesmerized state he has little to say to her, but when he meets her again at a McDonald's he is determined not to let the opportunity pass him by and invites her to eat with him. The two seem to really get along; that is, until they are interru...more

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Apr 05, 2012 Sundeep Naidu rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I got this book from a friend.. If he didnt give this book, I would have missed a fine read.

I have never heard of kevin brooks and this book set a very good impression of his in my mind...

Coming to the story.

It is story of a boy (mind it, he is not a man, he is a boy), Joe who meets a girl, Candy in London when he goes to visit a doctor. He immediately falls in love. The girl turns out to be a prostitute and a drug addict. This is the story of his struggle to get her out of the underworld - pro...more

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Oct 26, 2010 Stevecrandell rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: grades-9-and-up, teens-in-trouble-boys

Candy is not a horror story, but it’s not sugar sweet either. This book is scary on many levels. There were scenes when I couldn’t help but peek a page forward – just a glance – to get some hint of who might get hurt and how.

It was scary to read how messed up Candy was. And for me, as a parent of teenagers, it was very scary to see how a normal high schooler like Joe could get swept up into such danger. He never gives up his place as wholesome innocent victim. And he’s definitely out of his ele...more

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Dec 28, 2012 Sarah Goodwin rated it 1 of 5 stars

Once again, I'm not a teenager, I read this book for a YA writing course. When I was a teenager I read a bit of Melvin Burgess, and so wasn't shocked by any of the subject matter of this novel.

There are two reasons that I don't like this book, the first is that I think it would have been better, read - more interesting, from Candy's point of view, rather than from that of the male narrator. His life is boring, and he makes a lot of suppositions about Candy that got annoying. I wanted to hear her...more

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May 08, 2012 Zoe Pace rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book I would definitely not recommend to anyone that does not feel comfortable with the underworld of the streets of london. When i read this book I simply hated it, It felt like 2 heavy dumbbells on the tip of my shoulders the only problem was that I couldn't stop reading it and I loved it. In this book I was really torn with my feelings wether I liked it or not. The simple sadness of this book made me break into a mad rush to try and finish it.I think that to try and explain the plot of t...more

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Nov 09, 2011 Rachel rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

meh...it took me an extremely long time to get through this (*gasp* I had to return it LATE to the library, astonishing I know) and that's coming from the girl who reads novels like it's an Olympic sport. Part of the reason is because of how Kevin Brooks writes, I swear if I read the words 'it was...I don't know, so much.' I WILL scream. You are a WRITER, for the book's sake get some dang adjectives! Plus, personally I don't like books where nothing really happens, and I mean things happen but n...more

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Nov 08, 2012 Jessica rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Well recommended, Candy is a simply written, heartache, darkened truth novel about teen love with a twist.

The struggle of falling in love, with the suspense of not knowing what is going to happen next. Knowing as much as they know about you, facing the ugly truth underneath a world of lies, abuse, drugs and violence.

Kevin Brooks really did an outstanding job on this novel. The main character, Joe Beck, was just an average fifteen year old kid. Still in school, but when he’s out of school, he p...more

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Sep 12, 2010 Oscar rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I LOVED this book it has to have had one of the biggest impact on my life out of all the books I ever read! When I first saw this book laying around my house I though eh probably some predictable boring teenage girl book I am happy to say that I was proven very wrong. This book starts of with a boy ignorant to the world in fact I am able to relate to him alot he reminds me of how I was as a freshman in high school. Then he meets a girl not just any girl though, but candy. She turns his world ARO...more

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May 04, 2013 Dana rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

It took me a long time to get through this novel and maybe my two star rating is a little harsh and I'm sure if I was fifteen again, this book would have been more exciting. As it is, this is a novel that had a lot of potential, but turned out to be predictable and un-evolved. The characters didn't grow, the author didn't explore the interesting aspects of the plot line, and, the one character who was actually interesting (Candy) was seen through the eyes of an obsessed fifteen year old boy. I w...more

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Jun 05, 2011 Juliajulciap rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

It was good, till the ending. In my opinion it ended so randomly, it went down hill at the part when Candy is going through withdrawal. I enjoyed the aspect of Joe's odd obsession for Candy, and I believed that the book would develop into something really awesome. I wish I did not even finish the book because the last little bit was just aweful ruined the whole thing for me, and it seemed as though the authour just wanted to wrap it up. The ending just did not make sense and left me completely u...more

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Kevin Brooks was born in 1959 and grew up in Exeter, Devon, England. He studied Psychology and Philosophy at Birmingham, Aston University in 1980 and Cultural Studies in London in 1983. Kevin Brooks has been in a variety of jobs including: musician, gasoline station attendant, crematorium handyman, civil service clerk, hot dog vendor at the London Zoo, post office clerk, and railway ticket office...more

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“It's not easy-living in a void, living and dying inside your head…wanting what you want so much that you'd give everything else to get it- but the time still passes, the days go on…and as long as there's still a tomorrow, there's always a chance. ” — 38 people liked it

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