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  • ISBN10: 0439683289
  • ISBN13: 9780439683289
  • Paperback
  • 384 pages
  • Push

Candy
by Kevin Brooks

Reviewed by Sara

Rating: 5 out of 5

  • Posted 6 months ago
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The story of a teen drug addict, and her painful journey to be clean.

He meets Candy at a train station and immediately likes her.

He keeps on trying to find her and talk to her but people he doesn't know won't let him.

When he finally does find her and talk to her, he finds out that she is a crack addict. And she can't stop.

He wants to help her. He takes her to a cabin in the woods and makes her get rid of all her drugs.

The story of a painful cleansing without synthetic drugs to hold her off. She just stopped.

She screamed at him and hit him and hurt herself to try and get more drugs, but he didn't back down.

Then they come after her. The men that he got her away from. The drug dealers and sex addicts. They want her back.

The book is very intense at the end and sad too. Will he get the girl the way he wants her? Or will she go back to the drugs because she can't handle the suffering? We all know the teen stories about love and hurt, but what if the person you fell in love with was addicted to crack? And you tried all you could to help them off and all you got in return was screaming and hitting. Would you give up? Or keep trying until they were finally okay?

This story isn't very predictable, maybe a little at the beginning, but towards the end it gets harder and harder to follow which makes for a good story if you are a good reader.

You can picture everything in your mind and you feel as though you are there and part of this.

*keep your head up, your colors are beautiful*

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