Candy in Action

by Matthue Roth

Book Overview

It's action, it's glamour, and it's that best-friends-forever feeling where you're on top of the world and anything could happen--and it's the dark side of being the hottest girl in class.

Candy always had a million guys after her. Only before, they never used GPS tracking and surveillance helicopters. Candy Resnick and her best friend Velma jaunt around the world, flirt with rock stars and power brokers, and party it up in countries...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1593762283
• ISBN13: 9781593762285
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Soft Skull
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher

Customer Reviews

Courtesy of Teens Read Too

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

O! The suspense!

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!