A review by bethgiven
The Candy Shop War by Brandon Mull

3.0

This had the same sort of feel as the [b:The Mysterious Benedict Society|83369|The Mysterious Benedict Society (Mysterious Benedict Society, #1)|Trenton Lee Stewart|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1230379286s/83369.jpg|80497] with a few Harry-Potter-ish magical twists to it. While I don't think this was as good as the aforementioned children's lit (not enough character development being my biggest complaint), it was still a very enjoyable, imaginative read -- I was flying through the pages to find out what happened. I laughed out loud at a couple of the lines and thought the twists were fun; there were a few things I didn't see coming. I'm torn between giving this three stars or four ... and settling on three since I gave those similar books four-star ratings.