Candle Man, Book One: The Society of Unrelenting Vigilance by Glenn Dakin
Publication: EgmontUSA (September 22, 2009), ARC Paperback, 300pp / ISBN 1606840150 (hardback)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Middle Grade
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Challenges: Countdown 2010 (2009 #5)
Read: October 2009
Source: ARC from the publisher
First off, I think I should mention that right before I read this book I had just finished Leviathan, and any book that comes after Leviathan has a tough act to follow. So I was kinda expecting not to feel overwhelmed with adoration for Candle Man, and that turned out to be true. However, if I had gone into reading Candle Man any other time– i.e. not right after reading the awesomeness that was Leviathan, then I’m pretty sure I would have had a stronger, more positive reaction to it.
At the moment I’m just feeling sort of ambivalent. Is it a bad book? No, not by any means. But is it as good as Leviathan? Well, no. And I know it’s not fair to really compare the two (Scott Westerfeld is a veteran book-writer, and this is Glenn Dakin’s first book; Leviathan is YA/teen and Candle Man is middle grade, etc), so I’ll try not to take Leviathan into account for this review. Unfortunately my prejudices colored my reading a bit, but I’m going to try to even things out a bit if I can here. Okay?
Okay. Here we go–
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