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Praise for Abarat:
‘Abarat is more than just a new and major contender. It is (like his earlier book, The Thief of Always) full of a level of beautiful terror that children are still just able to bear.’ Independent
‘Always creating and always pushing into the furthest reaches of the human mind, he is an artist in every sense of the word. He is the great imaginer of our time.’ Quentin Tarantino
‘Abarat is a sumptuous and lovely thing.’
Guardian
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A dazzling fantasy adventure for all ages, the second part of a quartet appearing at two yearly intervals, richly illustrated by the author. Film rights sold to Disney for $8 million on the paintings alone.
The Abarat; a magical otherworld composed on an archipelago of twenty-five islands – one for each hour of the day, plus an island out of time.
Candy Quackenbush, escaping her dull, dull life from the most boring place in our world, Chickentown, USA, finds that in the Abarat she has another existence entirely, one which links her to marvels and mysteries–and even to murder…
In this, the second volume in Clive Barker's extraordinary fantasy for both adults and children, Candy's adventures in the amazing world of the Abarat are getting more strange by the Hour. Christopher Carrion, the Lord of Midnight, has sent his henchmen to capture her. Why? she wonders. What would Carrion want with a girl from Minnesota? And why is Candy beginning to feel that the world of the Abarat is familiar to her? Why can she speak words of magic she doesn't even remember learning?
There is a mystery here. And Carrion, along with his fiendish grandmother, Mater Motley, suspects that whatever Candy is, she could spoil his plans to take control of the Abarat.
Now Candy's companions must race against time to save her from the clutches of Carrion, and she must solve the mystery of her past before the forces of Night and Day clash and Absolute Midnight descends upon the islands.
A final war is about to begin. And Candy is going to need to make some choices that will change her life forever…
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It seems to me like Barker has taken too many hallucinogens and then recorded the train of thoughts down as a book and some awful paintings.
I gave up after fifteen pages as I remembered the first book and just couldn't be bothered to go through another page of this stuff.
I think this was originally released in 2004. I remember at the time thinking two years between the first and second books was a long wait, but nothing so long as the wait for the third book. Ho hum.
Anyway, back to this book. We pick up the story a few weeks on from the end of the first (Abarat (Abarat Quartet 1)), with Candy and Malingo enjoying some time exploring the islands.
The story soon gets back into the thick of things though, with The Criss-Cross man persistently chasing Candy to get her back to his boss, The Lord of Midnight. From there, we have adventure, fighting, magic, murder and indeed mayhem throughout. Cracking.
The book is a bit darker than the first, but progresses the story nicely with a couple of twists thrown in for good measure. Candy's "hidden story" is revealed here, and although it really was obvious already, it was nice to get the reveal here rather than waiting until later in the series.
It's been nearly 10 years since this series began, and there's still a long way to go. It is however refreshing to know that not only was I able to remember a lot of what I was re-reading, but also that a second read did not dent my original view of how good these books were to read. I'd like to point out here, that these two books are the only books I've ever read more than once (not counting bedtime classics to the children such as Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy (Hairy Maclary and Friends), and Fox in Socks: Green Back Book (Dr. Seuss: Green Back Books), which of course get reread most nights).
I have to recommend these books. I think they are great. Go read them. Now.
It did lack a little of the simplicity of the first book, had a few pages too many and... Read more
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