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Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War (Abarat, 2) Paperback – August 30, 2011

by Clive Barker (Author, Illustrator)
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 678 ratings
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Clive Barker, author of The Thief of Always, delivers an epic battle filled with fantasy and adventure that readers won't want to put down!

All things in their time . . .

Candy Quackenbush's adventures in the Abarat are getting stranger by the hour. Why has the Lord of Midnight sent his henchman after her? Why can she suddenly speak words of magic? Why is this world familiar?

Candy and her companions must solve the mystery of her past before the forces of Night and Day clash and Absolute Midnight descends upon the islands.

A final war is about to begin. . . .

Don't miss this second book in Clive Barker's New York Times bestselling Abarat series.

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  1. Book 2 of 3
    Abarat
  2. Print length
    624 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    HarperCollins
  5. Publication date
    August 30, 2011
  6. Grade level
    8 - 9
  7. Reading age
    13 years and up
  8. Dimensions
    5.31 x 1.41 x 8 inches
  9. ISBN-10
    0062094114
  10. ISBN-13
    978-0062094117
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All things in their time. . . .

Candy Quackenbush’s adventures in the Abarat are getting stranger by the hour. Why has the Lord of Midnight sent his henchman after her? Why can she suddenly speak words of magic? Why is this world familiar?

Candy and her companions must solve the mystery of her past before the forces of Night and Day clash and Absolute Midnight descends upon the islands.

A final war is about to begin. . . .

About the Author

Clive Barker is the bestselling author of twenty-two books, including the New York Times bestsellers Abarat; Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War; the Hellraiser and Candyman series, and The Thief of Always. He is also an acclaimed painter, film producer, and director. He lives in Southern California.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollins; Revised edition (August 30, 2011)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 624 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0062094114
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0062094117
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 13 years and up
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ 8 - 9
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.04 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.31 x 1.41 x 8 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Clive Barker was born in Liverpool in 1952. His earlier books include The Books of Blood, Cabal, and The Hellbound Heart. In addition to his work as a novelist and playwright, he also illustrates, writes, directs and produces for stage and screen. His films include Hellraiser, Hellbound, Nightbreed and Candyman. Clive lives in Beverly Hills, California

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OAKSHAMAN
5.0 out of 5 stars As good as Book One- deeper into the dream
Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2005
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_There isn't too much more that I can add to this review that I didn't say in my review of the first volume of Abarat. That is because the magic continues undiluted in this volume. This is literally a dream between two covers. So much of what was introduced with promise in Book One is more fully expanded here. I just can't get over the vividness of the images presented in both prose and illustration. This is a book that will literally make you dream in color....

_Just in case you aren't familiar with the story so far, this is the tale of Candy Quackenbush from a dysfunctional little family in a dysfunctional little town called Chickentown, Minnesota. Candy is drawn into a fantastic new world of adventure and strangeness called the Abarat. Yet, as strange as this world is, it also seems more and more familiar to her....

_By the way, if you think that not too much of importance will happen in the second volume of a four volume series, you would be wrong- dead wrong. As a matter of fact, so many important characters died in this book that I briefly wondered if there would be a volume three. The conclusion is so operatically spectacular that I cannot imagine Barker topping it when he concludes the series.

_The author also further develops the metaphysics of his vision here. From what I can tell his inspiration is primarily drawn from Plato. Actually, the Abarat comes across as one of the infinite levels of the astral plane- but one that is coming unglued and increasingly under the influence of dark forces. In any case, I found it a satisfying vision.

_Like the original volume this book is a top quality production in every respect: illustrations, typesetting, paper quality, end papers, covers, dust cover, etc., etc., etc.
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acacia williams
5.0 out of 5 stars one of my favorites
Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2024
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I have read this book over 5 times from many different perspectives! I love it! I love it soo much I feel the need to go to the Abarat! This definitely need to be a movie! Please make it a movie!
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varnya
5.0 out of 5 stars More Abarat Please
Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2007
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It had been quite some time since I read the first book of Abarat, but it really didn't matter. Even though I didn't remember everything from the first book this storyline pulled me right in and refreshed my memory.

In this book Candy really grows as an individual and begins to understand her feelings about herself, her family (mostly her father) and also she opens a can of worms in regards to the untold story of Christopher Carrion and Princess Boa. What really happened between them?

Candy also begins to realize her power.

The characters, creatures and landscape are all amazing. So beautiful and intricate that I want to be there. I couldn't put this book down until the very end, and now I want more.

It's a pleasure to see something truly original and inspired for young adults that can also wholly please an adult. It's also a pleasure to see a female in the lead role instad of the obligitory young boy in the lead with females only for supporting characters.

I reccomend this book to anyone who who wants to embark on a voyage into the fantastic and unknown. I reccomend this book to anyone who has a heart, young or old you won't be disappointed.

Put down the harry potter and pick up Abarat! :-)
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mrliteral
4.0 out of 5 stars Fantasy with that weird Barker touch
Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2007
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Now that the Harry Potter saga's come to a conclusion, there may be a little void left for the reader - child or adult - who enjoyed the type of fantasy that J.K. Rowling did so well: complex in plot but simple enough in language to be accessible to younger readers as well. Certainly, the best in the bunch would be The Lord of the Rings (and The Hobbit) by Tolkien, but there are other choices out there, with probably the best of the rest being Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. Then there is Clive Barker's Abarat.

With the popularity of Harry Potter, a number of "adult" writers took their shot at writing for a younger audience with mixed success. Barker, one of the great horror fantasists around today, was not one of these bandwagon jumpers, having already written one good "juvenile" novel, The Thief of Always, long before anyone knew who Harry Potter was. With Abarat, he starts a series of books with a similar young-and-adult-alike audience in mind.

Abarat uses one of the standard fantasy plot devices involving a youngish girl named Candy Quackenbush who discovers a world beyond her mundane existence, one in which she has a great destiny. For Candy, the mundane world is her life in Chickentown, a dull town with one industry (poultry, of course), where she lives with her family that may not be at a Dursley-level of nastiness, but is nonetheless a rather unpleasant one (due, in large part, to an alcoholic, abusive father).

Candy's life changes when she encounters the master thief, Mischief. It doesn't take long for Candy to realize he's something extraordinary: after all, he has seven other heads at the end of antlers. Mischief is being pursued by another strange creature named Shape, and in the process of helping Mischief escape, Candy is transported to another world called the Abarat. This is a set of twenty-five islands, one for each hour of the day plus a mysterious extra island. This is no mere figure of speech: each island sits in a certain block of time, so the noon island is always in bright sunshine, while others under different states of night, day or twilight.

The ruler of the midnight island, Christopher Carrion, has a sinister agenda that involves bringing night to all the Arabat. His opponent, Rojo Pixler, is no good guy either, but is a relentless capitalist intent on a monopoly on all magic and converting the whole world (and Candy's world, known to the locals as the Hereafter) into his own marketplace. In the middle is Candy who has adventures as she goes from place-to-place as both Carrion and Pixler seek her, aware that she is something special.

Abarat is not a self-contained novel, but the first in a series (which I believe to date has only one other book published). As such, it is hard to judge the novel on its plot, which is obviously incomplete. Barker does do a good job at creating a truly bizarre world, one that at times is almost too bizarre. With humor, drama and danger throughout the book, this is a nice read, even if it not a perfect one. For Harry Potter fans who are looking for something new (but at the same time not just a pale Potter imitation), this is a good choice.
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Fredigardo
1.0 out of 5 stars VERSÃO NÃO ILUSTRADA
Reviewed in Brazil on August 8, 2018
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Essa versão não possui as ilustrações características dos livros de Abarat, não vale a compra.
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KLR
5.0 out of 5 stars excellent
Reviewed in France on August 29, 2019
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exactement comme prévu, livraison rapide, excellent produit et service
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lorenzo beltrame
4.0 out of 5 stars abarat: days of magic, nights of war
Reviewed in Italy on August 31, 2014
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very good story. i started this saga from this book, so i didn't read the first one. but the story isn't difficult to follow, i found it interesting and the characters are well written, so it's easy to be "fascinated" by them.

if you love fantasy (and of course if you love clive barker universe...) this is the book for you. more interesting than harry potter, in my opinion.
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P. F. Ispizua
4.0 out of 5 stars Segunda mano en muy buenas condiciones
Reviewed in Spain on January 3, 2014
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Venía con una dedicatoria y todo (es lo que pasa con la segunda mano), pero cuando decía "en buenas condiciones", no mentía. Tiene solamente las señales propias de un uso muy cuidadoso, y era la única forma de conseguir el título, así que poco más hay que añadir...
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Casanova Frankenstein
5.0 out of 5 stars Barker back to his best
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 20, 2013
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I loved Barker's earlier work, The Imajica, Weaveworld, The Great and Secret Show, but personally felt he went off the boil a bit with both Coldheart Canyon and Mister. B. Gone. The Abarat novel's have brought back that sense of wonder that was distilled through the earlier novels. The difference in the Abarat novel's is that the central character of the novel is a young woman, Candy. She is a superbly written character, someone who is instantly likable, and her Journey through the Island's of the Abarat bring's her joy, wonder and revelation's about her own self. This novel continue's her adventure with friend and companion Malingo and the plan's of The Lord of Midnight, Christopher Carrion and his insidious Grandmother begin to unfold. Carrion continue's to pursue Candy, he become's more infatuated with her, but struggle's to understand why, until a grandstand finale to this novel.
I have just started to read the third novel 'Absolute Midnight', but have recently discovered that the 4th novel will not be out until next year (The Price of Dreams) and a fifth novel will follow (The Eternal). So we will all have some time to wait before we all can complete Candy's journey.
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