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5.0 out of 5 stars
Courtesy of Teens Read Too, January 2, 2008
This review is from: Candy in Action (Hardcover)
Strap on your seatbelts for this book--you are in for quite a ride. You will travel into the world of high society, limitless spending budgets, assistants galore -- oh, and incredible danger.
Candy is a freshman in college and has a face known by many due to her part-time modeling career. Her best friend, Velma, is from a family with so much money that often times she will fly to another country just for the afternoon. Luckily for Candy, Velma invites her along. It makes for a super-fantastic friendship.
Velma's money and connections help Candy beyond words when she begins getting stalked by a rich, spoiled, and very hot-tempered Preston. He, too, has endless amounts of money and assistants and absolutely will NOT allow Candy to not go out with him. Why would anyone not want to go out with him? He's gorgeous. He's rich. No one has ever turned him down and he's not about to let Candy say no to him.
Velma's family has more connections that Candy ever realized and they are able to help Candy escape to hidden places, dodge tracking devices, create false identities, and get her to other countries without being tracked.
Although this adventure sounds magical, it is anything but that. There is true danger, guns, explosions, and deaths.
Once you begin reading this book, you'll be off and running on this absurd, way-out-there, run-for-your-life adventure. I've never read a book quite like this one, and I'll never forget what it's like to live in the high society world of Candy and Velma.
Reviewed by: Dianna Geers
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5.0 out of 5 stars
O! The suspense!, December 7, 2007
This review is from: Candy in Action (Hardcover)
Matthue Roth uses his superb way with words to spin the story of Candy Resnick, your average run-of-the-mill super-model college student with awesome kung-fu skills and a best friend whose family is "The Family".
Being brilliant and beautiful can get you into trouble and that is exactly where Candy In Action takes us, into a plot filled with more trouble than any young adult can imagine and just as many foreign places as our troubled heroine trots the globe in order to hide herself from harm, mainly in an evil man named Preston.
This is one of the best Push novels out there, taking a leap away from the generic coming-of-age story to remind young readers that action and adventure is an arm's length away and your kung-fu ready fist better be ready to reach out and grab it!
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Ridiculous, not believable, October 8, 2011
Candy is an upper middle-class girl, with a bright future ahead of her. She models, she plans on going to medical school and is doing very well in pre-med, but to stay grounded she kept a job as waitress at a local eatery. After she turns down a date with a powerful, good looking, rich, famous movie star (or some sort of star), she ends up on the run from the mob. Luckily her best friend, Velma an upper-class heiress also happens to be a member of one of The Families. Velma aides Candy in dodging capturers with the help of her magic gold phone. Candy goes into hiding a few times, one time in a monastery or convent with some monks, but escapes-then leaves for different parts of the world with the help Velma's security detail. Together Candy and her heiress/mob princess friend link up with a 13 year old computer wiz kid, and eventually all ends well. This book is too ridiculous to take seriously. Candy is not believable and hard to connect with. I'm not saying beautiful women can't do a hundred things, or be good in science-but being in college as pre-med student leaves little time for a part time job, modeling, flying to Italy, studying, and just kicking back with your dad over a glass of wine. Amazingly she knows lots of different martial arts moves-but her besty doesn't even know she has an interest in karate or self defense (other than the classes Candy's mother made her take) and Candy says she only studied it while her mother was alive (its implied her mother has been dead for a few years). Most martial arts enthusiasts will tell you if you don't use it-you lose it, but Candy remembers all her training and is able to out run trained gunman. Velma is a bit more relatable, but she is upper class and that alone makes her difficult to connect with. Matty, a computer wiz kid, is a believable character simply because there are plenty of junior code-slingers that hang out in chat rooms all day. Candy's father is a nice guy in the story, handsome and a doctor-but he is also a Doogie Howser which made his back story inorganic and more complicated than it needed to be. There were too many characters in this story, most of which were not relatable and not well developed to make an impact. The setting of this book jumps around so much it is difficult to keep track. They are on a snow covered mountain with some monks, they are in Italy, back in New York, or in Prague at different times in book that is not all that long. Some how they end up on a volcano, a setting I found most odd (I am a geologist). Unless you are Icelandic and are a volcano parachuter, even volcanologists generally do have the ability to stand volcanic temperatures without proper FRC clothing. Candy also brings you into flash backs, one where she has been kidnapped and is being held for ransom-but these flash back do not further the present story. Because of the flash backs, I was pulled from the present setting and had a difficult time placing myself back in the moment. The novel is not well-written. I cannot put my finger on what exactly makes it this way, I would compare the wording to the Twilight Novels. Although I thought this book was a ridiculous waste of time, it might make a decent graphic novel or pilot for a CW Show.
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