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stealing candy - stewart lewis6/12/2017 charactersCandy. Oh dear. Let me start out by saying that I have never really disliked the protagonist of a book before, but there's a first time for everything! She is DEFINITELY one to say "I'm not like the other girls". GIVE ME A BREAK. What the author intended to be witty (Max the Goth, Cancer Stick, Half Smile, The Borings) came off as annoying and rude. Candy would judge a person at the drop of a hat without a second thought or any remorse because of it. She's also all poor me, I go to an expensive boarding school where there are great opportunities for education but I don't take advantage of them because no one understaaaaands me. Uuuuugh. Levon. Hello, extremely typical YA love interest. How convenient that your reasons for kidnapping Candy are fine by her standards, and kidnapping Candy is also okay because you're hot! I cannot stand this dude. Seriously. Uuuuuuuuuuuugh. Rena. Honestly, Rena is the only okay character in this book. I want to learn more about her, and only her. Even though the author made her out to be the mean grandmother from Russia (along with other stereotypes), she still intrigues me. plotOkay, I was basically setting myself to not like this book. The premise didn't even really sound interesting to me, but it was short and it had an okay cover, and I thought I could be convinced to like it- maybe it would be like Stolen by Lucy Christopher, yknow? That's not what ended up happening. DISCLAIMER: I think this story idea would have translated better onto film. I just can't understand some of the characters' decisions, and maybe I could have if I saw their faces and them thinking through it. So. Let's start off by talking about Candy and Levon. I don't think Stockholm Syndrome is what Candy went through; I think it is Candy's idiotic judgement. Being kidnapped is suddenly okay because she's finally free of that totally horrible boarding school- oh and, omg, her kidnapper is, like, so totally hot. Before even knowing his motives (which still don't make it okay), she's fine because he's cute. NO. What kind of idiocy?! Not only is Candy making very quick judgements- and horrible ones at that- she falls in love in a week. A week. Insta-lovey, much? (They didn't even have a connection, either- he just laughed sometimes when she said "witty" things.) Can we also talk about what this book is about? Because yeah, I don't know either. Is it a road trip? Is it about Candy's "development" (in question marks because she doesn't develop)? How about just being kidnapped and the events surrounding that? STEALING CANDY just couldn't decide what to focus on. (That's code word for weak plot.) Also, I wondered after I ended it if that was really it. That was such a horrible ending. I could go on and on, but I'll stop there for now. I could probably rant for a million more years about this book, but we're not gonna do that. I just want to advise you to keep away from this book.
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