Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America by Steve Almond
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
You may think having candy/ chocolate is normal and that it isn’t that deep of a meaning, but the people who have made it in tiny industries are suffering. The author uses so much descriptive words to describe how each delicious chocolate/ candy is like in the tiny factories many people don’t know of.
I think that his point in his book is to say that bigger industries of making chocolate has taken over family run ones, and that fact is a depressing information to hear. Most of the family-owned factories are suffering from the war over making their chocolate taste different than other ones. But the more bigger industries push, it ruins their companies.
I liked how the author uses descriptive and quotes from other people, and sometimes funny jokes to make the nonfiction book seem more interesting than other ones. However, when listening to the audio, sometimes he doesn’t mention which part he will start from in a new CD. I think that he should make his CD’s have 1-2 chapters in each CD.
Overall, I think that the flow of the book is very nice, and “delicious” to read. You can visualize his candy that he is describing and it makes me feel hungry and want to try it.~Student: Midori I.
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