Candy blog entry number 9

I finished Candy by Kevin Brooks, and I didn't love the ending. I mean, I didn't figure that everything would end happily, but I don't feel that I was satisfied. Mainly, because I think that the final outcome of the situation was left for you to decide, and to be realistic, Candy and Joe would probably never share a happy life together. Joe ruined his chance with the band, although I could see them wanting him to come back, since he did create the song Candy which proved to help their popularity. I think that when Iggy came to get Candy that he really would have killed Joe, even though he said he wouldn't, Iggy wasn't stupid, and I think that even though Candy said that Iggy wouldn't have killed Joe, I think that Joe would have put himself in harms way, not that he hadn't already. I thought that Candy did an excellent job killing Iggy and some of his men, and I think that she made the right choice knocking Mike out, because he would have probably been a hassle, and caused her to doubt herself. She was really brave to kill Iggy, but I wonder what will happen to her prostitute friends. Will they be angry that they lost there pimp because of Candy? Or will they be thankful? These desperate women are still addicted, even though Candy isn't, so I figure many of them will move onto find different men to provide for them. Candy on the other hand I feel will go back to her parents, because they want her back, and at one point she says how she wants things to go back to normal, and go back to the way that they used to be. I think that subconsciously she has chosen that. I think that Joe and Candy will see each other again one day, but I have this feeling that Joe is going to move on, because he feels that Candy is over, although it was magical, it's over. And I think that Candy will find a boyfriend or two, but eventually they will cross paths again, and possibly start from the beginning. I enjoyed Candy, and there were many themes intertwined in the novel, and I found myself seeing how people could take these themes and see them different ways, which makes this book attractive to a large variety of people.