Sour Candy by Kealan Patrick Burke

Twisted and Brilliant

5 out of 5 stars

I like to sprinkle in a non-audiobook review every once and a while.  And even more, I enjoy reading a novella.  There’s something about the ability to tell your story in under 100 pages that gets me.  Burke was able to do that and more. He was able to make me feel things for the main character numerous times in less than 70.

The story itself was brilliant. Perfect storytelling from beginning to end.  We go through the trial and tribulations of the MC while he’s going through them.  There are no wasted of extra words in Sour Candy.

The antagonist was also brilliant.  I won’t go into too much detail for fear of spoiling it, but the battle between “good and evil” as it stands in this book is twisted and unfamiliar (in a good way).

Overall, a phenomenal novella that I enjoyed from beginning to end.

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I’ve loved reading since I was little when my dad would read me Dr. Suess books. Fast-forward a little and I noticed that he was always reading on his lunch breaks at work, and I wondered why.Then, I found a book that took me to another place and time, to another feeling,another sense of “being”.It was the first book that I ever fell in love with, and I’ve been chasing that feeling ever since.

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