I recommend it for people who are fans of fantasy, or just for people who love books. I loved it! I can't wait to read the sequel. I loved this book, and I'v already picked up the sequel from the library. Barker has a crazy mind, but proves to be creative, which is cool to see. Candy is in peril all through the book, even in her school and her home. Also people fight each other, and a character beats his slave. This is a story about Candy Quackenbush who decides to leave her boring world and her troublesome home-life in Chickenville, only to meet a master thief, John. The violence includes Candy's father who pushes her and swears at her. A darkness that plans to take over Abarat. She then finds herself in Abarat, a whole new world where strange things are a foot. The story tells of a girl named Candy Quackenbush who has a acholic father who lives in Cickentown a boring place in the u.s. I love the characters that are dynamic and original. The pacing is slow at times, even at the exciting bits, otherwise, this book is pith-perfect. The only down fall, and trust me, the ONLY, is the pacing needs to be worked on. This author has style, and doesn't feel the need to flaunt his writing with big words or challenging text, in fact, he illustrates the books with beautiful, strange oil paintings, more than fifty that help illustrate the strange but magical taste of his new world he designed. After a heated argument with her school teacher over a school project and the scribbled absent-minded, she has done with her workbook. Abarat is a one-of-a-kind fantasy start that begins with flawless writing. The first book in Abarat series by Clive Barker focuses on Candy Quackenbush, a young girl frustrated with the situation in her life in Chickentown, Minnesota.

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