Misja w lunaparku

The Candy Shop War #3

by Brandon Mull

Bajkowy świat snów to miejsce, w którym chciałby na stałe zamieszkać niemalże każdy z nas. "Misja w lunaparku. Wojna cukierkowa. Tom 3" autorstwa Brandona Mulla to pełna akcji powieść osadzona w miasteczku Colson. Jakie wyzwania tym razem będą czekać na bohaterów książki?

Tom 3 to kontynuacja przygód Nate'a, Summer, Trevora i Gołębia. Ich celem jest zwalczanie wrogów, którzy wprowadzają zamęt w codziennym życiu mieszkańców miasteczka Colson. W powieści pod tytułem "Misja w lunaparku. Wojna cukierkowa. Tom 3" bohaterom przyjdzie mierzyć się z Camilą White, która zawitała do lokalnej społeczności wraz z tajemniczym lunaparkiem. Odwiedzający to miejsce potrafią zniknąć bez śladu nawet na kilka dni, a w dodatku skarżą się na dziwne, niespotykane dotąd sny.

Brandon Mull wplata w tym miejscu wątek walki świata rzeczywistego z jego bajkowym, sennym odpowiednikiem. Aby przeciwstawić się szkodliwemu lunaparkowi, bohaterowie będą zmuszeni wykorzystać magiczne cukierki oraz magię samego wesołego miasteczka. Czy uda im się oddalić zagrożenie? Czy zdołają przywrócić dawny ład i porządek w ukochanym miasteczku? Wszystko zależy od tego, czy dadzą radę wykonać tę wyjątkowo trudną misję.

Genres: Fantasy, Middle Grade, Fiction, Adventure, Audiobook, Magic, Childrens

432 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2023

About the author

BRANDON MULL is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Fablehaven, Dragonwatch, Beyonders, and Five Kingdoms series. A kinetic thinker, Brandon enjoys bouncy balls, squeezable stress toys, and popping bubble wrap. He lives in Utah in a happy little valley near the mouth of a canyon with his wife, Erlyn, their eleven children, and three mischievous cats. Brandon loves meeting his readers and hearing about their experiences with his books.

Reviews

[give me books · Rating 5 out of 5]

Piękne, zabawne, niekonwencjonalne i aaaaa kocham tę książkę.
Szukacie książki z cyrkiem/parkiem rozrywki? No musicie to przeczytać

[Nicole Buchner Scott · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have waited years for this book! My kids and I stumbled across the first book at our school library. We would check out books on CD to listen to in the car and we loved it! Then Arcade Catastrophe came out and it was so good! We went and saw Brandon at a book event and he told us the third book would be out in 5 years. We couldn’t believe we would have to wait that long… I think it was over 7 years ago he told us that. I was so lucky to get to read an advance copy from NetGalley.

I thought the beginning was a little slow but once the kids met Sandra things got fun! I would not be sad if the White Family had any other siblings or a crazy aunt to come wreck havoc and let another book be written!

I look forward to the series Brandon says he is working on now… but I don’t know how he has time with his 11 children!

[Cole Dunning · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bro!!! Can’t wait!! I have been waiting for this book for ages! Can’t wait to see what happens!

[Melissa’s Bookshelf · Rating 5 out of 5]

New magical candy, creepy clowns, another mysterious White sibling, and a whole lot of thrills and chills cap off this fantastic conclusion to The Candy Shop War series. Brandon Mull has long been a favorite author in our household, not only for the kids, but the parents too. The imaginative, exciting stories where everyday life and magic secretly coexist make kids want to read and bring out the kid in adults as well. We bought the first Candy Shop War book when our oldest daughter was just seven years old, the second book when she was eleven, and now she’s 21 and highly anticipating this final installment. I’m happy to tell her it does not disappoint!

The Dreams and Screams Carnival is aptly named. Here kids and adults can realize their fondest dreams and scariest nightmares. It’s a fantastical place with hidden locations, spell binding rides, special coins and tickets, secrets, and magic. But some enter the carnival and never come out. The carnival’s next destination is Colson, California of all places where the Blue Falcons consisting of Nate, Pigeon (Paul), Trevor, and Summer, who previously defeated the two White sibling magicians, are gearing up to attend a new middle school.

The Blue Falcons meet a new friend Zac who happens to be a huge social media influencer. He offers to get them special access into the carnival, but local magician Mr. Stott senses the carnival isn’t all that it seems and warns the kids to beware. When their magical candies won’t work and they find out the carnival is owned by none other than Camilla White, yet another White sibling, the kids work together to solve the mystery of where all the disappearing people are hidden. John Dart and a new magician work to help the kids uncover the secrets and battle new foes as well as distinguish between dreams and reality. It’s a fast-paced, imaginative ride middle grade kids and up will definitely enjoy.

Getting to know these amazing kids in this series has been a joy. They’ve all grown not only in confidence, but in their leadership abilities, Nate especially. I love how they all work together and support each other. What kids faced with being granted their hearts desires, would recognize the lie and be able to withstand the temptation? I enjoyed the subtle messages in the book of nothing worthwhile is ever easy and it’s better to live in a flawed reality than a fake dreamworld.

I’m honestly sad to see the series end. I’m hoping there might just be one more White relative to wreak havoc on Colson so we can see these great kids again. While this is the third book in the series, it could be read as a standalone, however, I highly recommend reading the previous books first. I received an advanced complimentary copy from the publisher. All opinions are my own and I was not required to provide a positive review. Content: Clean with mild violence.

[Sara · Rating 4 out of 5]

The last in the Candy Shop War trilogy, and by far my favorite of the three. Mull's writing has matured over the series, and the characters have a little more dimension.

Still, all the great elements of the other books are there....4 kids must save the world from magical villains at a carnival that seems to be...stealing dreams? Magic candy, an intense, nuanced fantasy world, and narrow escapes mean my grade schooler was enthralled from the first chapter.

Great road trip listen.

[Książkomanka · Rating 5 out of 5]

5/5 ⭐

To moja 14 książka Brandona Mulla. Moja miłość do tego autora stałe wzrasta. Nie mogę się doczekać aż ten tom będzie w Polsce. Mam wrażenie, że do tych postaci przywiązałam się znacznie szybciej, niż do bohaterów Baśnioboru

[Grace Elizabeth · Rating 3 out of 5]

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

This was pretty lackluster compared to the other books in the series.

The characters were pretty flat. While they weren’t the most complex in the other books, they had personalities and motives that made them well-rounded characters. There was none of that in this book. And it felt like Pigeon was barely there, which sucks because he’s my favorite character. Or his dog. :(

I also don’t feel great about Lindy’s ending. Besides the fact that she and Mr. Scott we’re barely in the book at all, I felt like her ending completely erased all of the development she had in Book 2, which is really disappointing.

It also felt like nothing happened in the book, despite the conflict being a ‘world-ending’ one, as said by the characters. I was waiting for the exposition to be over, and I realized I was like 65% of the way in. Even the climax felt like exposition rather than a climax to both the book and the series.

The book also didn’t really expand much on the magic system. It kind of made the magic boring, in fact.

Overall, I’d definitely recommend the first two books. The series definitely deserved a better finale, though. I’m not mad I read it, but I doubt I’ll reread it.

I will miss this series though, especially Pigeon and his dog.

[tentremxoxo · Rating 4 out of 5]

To była jedna z lepszych części 🥹🙏
Podobało mi się to że to coś innego było, więcej się działo. Trochę mnie wkurzyło że dowiedziało się trochę więcej osób o magii, jednak lubię jak to jest takie ich. Mega mi smutno też że to już koniec:(
Zwrot akcji było z czarnym charakterem który nim nie był XD zdecydowanie nie spodziewałam się tego i jeszcze byłam zła że pojawiła się w książce, ale potem wybaczyłam wszystko.
Mega polecam, była lekko i chłonęłam ją jak gąbkę. 🤭

[naomi · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read the first two as a fifth-grader, and now there's a new one!! It felt so surreal finding this out a couple days ago and I immediately went ahead and borrowed it. I had to read #2 first, because I didn't quite remember all of the characters. This one was pretty good, albeit very long. I liked all the hidden passageways and stuff, though I wish Brandon Mull had written about some other ones similar to the Grotto which I thought was really cool. This book also had some out of pocket one liners that were really funny, like Trevor saying what happened if he broke a mirror and then Pigeon replying "well maybe you'll break the mirror with your ugliness" or something like that. The book was fairly dense so lowkey a kid might get tired of reading it. I read it all in one go (plus a one hour nap in the middle) so I guess I'm built different. Also there was a cute author's note at the end. I was a kid when I read the first two! And now I'm grown up! Super weird. I'm going to keep reading middle grade fiction so I can catch up to my reading goal. Okay bye

[Kasia (kasikowykurz) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Początek w ogóle mi się nie podobał i nawet rozważałam DNF, ale na szczęście w miarę się to rozwinęło. Nie zmienia to jednak faktu, że to jedyna seria autora, której nie cierpię, ma strasznie wkurzających bohaterów, do których nie potrafiłam się przywiązać i marzyłam, żeby skończyła się na pierwszym tomie. Ogólnie tom był okay, ale bardziej cieszyłam się, że po prostu się to już wszystko skończyło.

[Brianna · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was a kid when I read the first one, I felt like a kid again reading the last one.

A rollercoaster ride of fun with real dangers, scary clowns, and brand new magic candy. I loved all of it! I think anyone at any age could like this series, it’s just a really good time :)

[Mewa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Yup, tę serię Mulla naprawdę polubiłam ✨

[Brandon · Rating 3 out of 5]

My son won this advanced reader copy of the book at a local event with Brandon Mull and it has been a delight to finish a series I began over 12 years ago - and even better to share it with my kids. If Brandon Mull happens across this review, I would love him to know of my deep gratitude for the stories he shares.

I write this review as a different person than when I read the earlier books in this series. In fact, it seems I've largely moved on, which says more about me than Mull's writing. In fact, the intended audience (my middle-grade kids) loved this book! So with that disclaimer, here's an adult's review of a middle-grade book:

It is weird to have the first half of a book be my favorite. Mull's imagination is unparalleled and I was intensely invested in the adventure of exploring the carnival, figuring out where the carnie coins should be used, understanding what enchanted carnie coins were for, and getting to the next big secret. The book kept going deeper and deeper into the pure joy of discovery and I loved it. Then, it was as if Mull figured out that he needed to actually move the plot along and the secrets largely stopped, the carnival narrowed to very few locations (leaving most areas untapped and other secrets abandoned), and the book became an ordinary race to finish the quest. That part of the book wasn't bad, but was disappointing in contrast to the first half of the book.

Now let's talk characters. I vaguely remember the prior two books, so I had to gain new impressions of all of them. Nate and Summer were great protagonists. Trevor and Pigeon were nearly indistinguishable from one another and weren't very interesting. This wasn't really an issue until they got some breakoff chapters near the end together. I recall Lindy being great in book 2, so I was disappointed she was almost completely sidelined. And the enforcers all got smaller roles, except for Sandra, who was mostly uninteresting as a character (although essential for the plot).

The new magical candies were somewhat interesting, although with each character mainly using the same power over and over, this book felt like it lacked the wonder of the magical candy (or handstamps) that I recall from the prior books. This was effectively replaced by the wonder of the carnival, but I see no reason that candy had to be introduced and used in the way it was. Particularly for the "Candy Shop War." But it was there and checked the necessary boxes.

I'll speak in vaguer terms for the ending to avoid spoilers. Everything got resolved, which is always a plus for a book and a series. There weren't really any major twists to be excited about, but that was okay too. Some of the loose ends got wrapped up in some exposition in the last chapter, which wasn't particularly satisfying (dialogue would have been preferable), but I suppose the resolution of those loose ends wasn't groundbreaking, so it was an acceptable choice.

Overall, this was a good book and I enjoyed it. I would especially recommend it for its intended audience. For those a bit older, enjoy it with your kids.

[Bijuri]

DNF on page 50. I really wanted to enjoy this because I loved the first two Candy Shop War books as a kid, but I just wasn't captivated by the beginning and the dialogue between the characters felt SO useless. Also, there's a H*rry P*tter reference near the beginning, and I don't understand why authors keep doing this in 2023.

[Jednorozec_czyta · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wszystko, co dobre, kiedyś się kończy i tak też kończy się trylogia "W*jny cukierkowej". "Misja w lunaparku" to już ostatnia przygoda Nate'a, Gołębia, Summer i Trevora, a przy tym nasz ostatni raz w świecie pełnym czarodziejów i magicznych słodyczy. Jak ten tom wypada na tle poprzednich? Przekonajmy się.

"Misja w lunaparku" utrzymuje poziom. Po nieco mniej klimatycznej "Awanturze w salonie gier" ten tom zabiera nas do prawdziwej krainy snów i marzeń. Po tej książce aż będziecie chcieli udać się do wesołego miasteczka. Być może nie będzie tak niesamowite jak to z książki Mulla, ale chyba żadne mu nie dorówna. To magia w czystej postaci!

Tym razem główni bohaterowie są jedynymi, którzy mogą zbadać tajemnicę ostatniej z rodzeństwa White'ów. Prawda o lunaparku okazuje się jednak bardziej skomplikowana, niż na początku zakładano i to był zdecydowany plus tej historii! Nie można było zbyt wiele przewidzieć, Mull pozwolił swojej wyobraźni wypłynąć na szerokie wody.

Co można powiedzieć o bohaterach? Nie zmienili się zanadto od pierwszego tomu, z kolei postaci Trevora i Summer pozostały nierozwinięte. Choć autor rzucił nitki wątków, które wystarczyło trochę bardziej pociągnąć, wszystko skupia się na przygodzie - co nie jest złe, jednak przy trzecim już tomie chciałoby się czegoś więcej. Moją ocenę z kolei zaniża wybitnie irytująca postać Sieroty (nie każcie mi przypominać sobie jego imienia, gdy po audiobooku nie znam jego zapisu). Nie wiem, czemu Mull uznał, że jego wprowadzenie to świetny pomysł, bo ten dzieciak był po prostu wkurzający. Wyobraźcie sobie najbardziej wnerwiającego młodego YouTubera, który wywołuje w Was ciary żenady, a który jako bohater książki jest tak durny, że aż ma się ochotę w niego czymś rzucić. A najgorsze, że przewijał się aż do końca i zastąpił Lindy... Gdyby nie to, ta książka byłaby równie świetna co pierwsza.

Jak ostatecznie oceniam "Misję w lunaparku"? Finał trylogii był klimatyczny i oryginalny, słuchało się go świetnie, dlatego ma on ode mnie 9/10 i polecam tę serię osobom 11+

[ferrbooks · Rating 2 out of 5]

Could’ve been its own series. Only exciting parts were the last 30 pages or so. Felt like it strayed too far from the other books in the series. No character development at all, predictable events, and felt way too rushed despite so many random ideas and details. Arcade catastrophe was easily the best book in this series with the 1st close behind. This felt forced.

[Daniel · Rating 2 out of 5]

I loved the first to books they were my childhood but this was just disappointing there was no “magic” to it it honestly felt like he forgot who these characters were idk I’m just disappointed

[juliszkroichleb · Rating 4 out of 5]

3,5

[Marsha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Setting aside the fact that the age did not work with the actions and decision making of the characters, this was a good story and end to the series. Summers animal rights mantra got a little old and seemed forced in the story. It also did not fit the age. A less use of talking points and more use of love and kindness would have worked better for the characters age. I loved the message of imagination and dreams and how we impact the realization of, and benefit from, each. I love the message on the importance of good friends and the willingness to sacrifice and forgive in any relationship. This is a good series for young readers. Old readers must be willing to put away the believable and just enjoy the story.

[Bevany · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brandon Mull has done it again. Another fun fantastical middle-aged book perfect for readers of all ages. This is the third installment of his candy shop war series. The world's Brandon creates are so colorful and magical that the reader can't help but feel like they are part of the story. I can't wait to share this one with my own kids!

[Roy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another "sweet" adventure from Brandon Mull! Actually, the emphasis was more on the adventure in this book of the series, but I think that was definitely the right move. The mystery of the White family is all layed out in this book and it is very satisfying! I wholeheartedly recommend this book and series. Hopefully Hollywood will decide to turn these into movies.

[Delia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Świetna książka, tylko trochę przewidywalna i momentami przynudza. Ale naprawdę mi się podobała - gdyby nie fakt, że ktoś narobił w spodnie ze strachu... przynajmniej 2 razy, z czystym sumieniem dałabym 4 gwiazdki.
Oh, poza tym to bardzo zgrabne zakończenie serii, czekałam na to... dobre kilka lat

[Lacie · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun read, got a little weird with the clowns 🤡

[ThatKaro · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 / 5

[Szymon · Rating 3 out of 5]

trochę rozczarowanie

[zaczytajka · Rating 5 out of 5]

♾️/5★

[Jessica Allred · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this book! I think it might be my favorite of the trilogy.

[Amy Ronaghan · Rating 4 out of 5]

SUCH a great ending to the series! I love all of these characters and can't wait to tell my students about another great Mull series to read.

[Josh Sears · Rating 3 out of 5]

Honestly, i loved the past two books and this one slowed down and repeated a lot of what the last books did, just not as good.

[Maja · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.75/5