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Candles Burning
Candles Burning
Author: Tabitha King, Michael McDowell
After her father's horrific murder, Calley Dakin and her mother find themselves exiled to Pensacola Beach, where a woman awaits their presence. A woman who understands that Calley is no normal little girl, but can't begin to imagine just how strong her bond is with her father-even after death.
ISBN-13: 9780425215708
ISBN-10: 0425215709
Publication Date: 5/1/2007
Pages: 432
Rating:
  • Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
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3.2 stars, based on 53 ratings
Publisher: Berkley
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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fab4fan avatar reviewed Candles Burning on + 19 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 5
I really enjoyed this book-it was a good match for Tabitha King to finish writing the book for Michael McDowell. It is the story of a young girl, her strange and aloof mother, her father's grisly murder by strangers, and the rest of her weird, troubled family. Part ghost story and part survival story of a young child who has to face adult issues far too early in her short life.
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Helpful Score: 4
Excellent and odd....about a young girl and her eccentric mother and their family history.
ilovedale3 avatar reviewed Candles Burning on + 524 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 4
I liked the "Southern-ness" of this novel. The language, the slang, the places were all dead on. The main character is an absolute delight! However, the story had so much potential that was left untapped. It had supernatural overtones, but not enough was done with those either.
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Helpful Score: 3
Having grown up in the Pensacola area, I found this an interesting read. Story line pulls the reader in from the beginning and doesn't slow down. I have enjoyed all of Michael McDowell books and was glad that Tabitha King had decided to finish this book.....
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Helpful Score: 2
this was a really good read. kind of a murder mystery/ghost story. enjoyable and engrossing. there were a few places where the story seemed to drag, but otherwise it was an easy read.
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Interesting tale built on characters you're made to care about,surprising and satisfying.
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This one is scary, really spooky--and only after you've finished it and thought for a bit do you realize quite how very scary it is. The story sneaks up on you somehow. The posthumous collaboration is seamless; the two voices weave a spell together and just drag the reader right under, into the dark . . .

From back cover: Known for his chilliing Blackwater series, author Michael McDowell left behind the unfinished manuscript for CANDLES BURNING upon his death in 1999. In the spirit of the ghost stories that Michael loved, Tabitha King has taken up where he left off . . .
Calliope 'Calley' Dakin is no normal little girl. She hears things that maybe a little girl shouldn't hear--and knows things a little girl should never know.
Just seven when her beloved father is tortured, murdered, and dismembered by two women with no discernable motivation, Calley and her mother find themselves caught up in inexplicable events that exile them to Pensacola Beach. There--in a house that's a dead ringer for Calley's late great-grandmother's house--another woman awaits their presence. A woman who understands what Calley is but has no idea just how strong her bond is with her father, even after death...
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Intriguing, lovely, evocative book.
Tunerlady avatar reviewed Candles Burning on + 581 more book reviews
Excellent book - lots of mystery; spiritual illusions - good descriptions of life in the south and particularly on the beach in the panhandle in the 50's & 60's...


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