![]() ![]() At times reading felt like taking a quiz where you stare at a question struggling to come up with the correct solution, the answer stubbornly taking up residence on the tip of your tongue. Such varied formatting forces the reader to find the story between the lines – to identify the unwritten plot and fill in the blanks, not with their own imagination but instead from subtle information planted in previous or sometimes even later chapters. One chapter entitled “Lulu the Spy, 2032” is written as a series of thought entries while another, “See Below,” is composed entirely of email threads. ![]() Like its predecessor “A Visit from The Goon Squad,” each chapter in “The Candy House” is told by a different character as well as in a different format. I want to make it clear that this review will not be a plot summary or a summary of sort, but rather a review of the thoughts and emotions one might expect when turning the pages of the number one book of 2022 according to the New York Times (and to me). The series was introduced to me by my suitemate and has since consumed most of my time as opposed to my, arguably more pressing though far less interesting, homework. But alas, it also wasn’t a book I could put down. With its iridescent rainbow cover contrasted with stark-white size fifty aerial font, “The Candy House” was not a book I felt proud to be reading amidst the literary geniuses holed up alongside me in the library. ![]()
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