Book Review - I Want Candy By: Kim Wong Keltner

Since I have been home sick the past two days, I have been getting a lot of my reading done.

I Want Candy - By: Kim Wong Keltner

This is pretty much a coming of age book about 14 year old Candace Ong. Having to work at Eggroll Wonderland everyday after school, Candace feel like she is missing out on life.

She is very jealous of her friend Ruby (who likes her own tits), and the guys that she sleeps around with.

While Candance is put into some sexual situations, she never does give in & actually do it. Preserving her virginity maybe until she is older? The book doesn't really say.

The book is filled with a lot of swearing & crude bathroom type humor, calling a penis a one-eyed pinky rat, and other such odd names. When I was 14 we used some crude language, but not ones like in this book.

I did not really care for this book, basically because of the language, and this part of the book where her friend Ruby dies in a fire, but then continues visiting & ridiculing Candace as a ghost.

The ghost portion doesn't really fit with the rest of the context of the book. Ghost Ruby shows her things that don't make any sense to the rest of the story.

So, since I did not really care for this book, I am going put in what is written on the back of the book.

If you enjoyed this book, please share your opinion's below.

Fourteen-year-old Candace Ong is wasting away in wonderland - Eggroll Wonderland, the restaurant where her under-Americanized family toils in San Francisco. She loves rock candy and rock music, jelly beans & jelly shoes - and hangs with her best friend Ruby, whold wild life she envies. Candace wants more than another stifling summer stuck in the kitchen. So when a new opportunity arises, she leaps at the chance - even though it means leaving home to expereince a tantalizing, dangerous life far beyond the sim sum ho hum. But the waiting world may be a lot more than one brainiac Chinese Lolita can safely handle.