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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Strebor Books
Published: Jul 2010
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $22.99
Pages: 368
Forced teen prostitution in America is on the rise and is being exposed through the media. Allison Hobbs offers a provocative look into the lives of three young girls who have been forced into sex slavery by a homicidal pimp, and the one woman who risks everything to try and save their lives. Stealing Candy by Allison Hobbs is a shocking novel about human sex trafficking. Three teenage girls from very different backgrounds have been abducted by a pimp who refers to them as "his candy" while treating them with cruelty and contempt. Routinely battered, emotionally manipulated, the girls are brainwashed into accepting sexual servitude as their hopeless plight in life. Saleema Sparks has made it her life's mission to provide a sanctuary for troubled teen-age girls. With dwindling personal funds, she may have to close the doors to her one-woman operation—Head Up—a safe haven for young women in crisis. But when Portia, a member of Head Up, goes missing, Saleema does not accept that the troubled teen is simply a runaway. She is compelled to look for Portia, forcing an apathetic community to open their eyes and lend a hand in the search for the abducted teen. But can she help Portia and the other sex-trafficked girls break free from the malicious pimp who has abducted them? Determined to save three young lives, Saleema risks everything to get the girls out of the pimp's murderous grasp.
Okay I was enjoying this book all the way until the end. I love books with happy ending, but I really don't know if I would consider this book to have a happy ending. Yes things happen that I excepted but I thought that maybe this book would have had me smiling at the last page. I will say this, the ending had me wanting to know more. I have a ton of unanswered question. I won't get into the questions that I have because I don't want to ruin the story for others, but Ms. Hobbs I need you to come up with a sequel are something for these questions that I need answered.