Candy Everybody Wants (P.S.)

I may be a bit biased about this book because I know the author, Josh Kilmer-Purcell. He was the quiet shy new boy in high school who accompanied the concert choir and other musical groups on the piano. I distinctly remember how talented he was on that out of tune upright piano in the auditorium! As soon as I found out Josh had written a second book, I knew I had to read it immediately! Having read Josh's first book, I Am... Read Full Review

Reading kind of like a VH1-style "I Love the 80's" special on steroids, "Candy Everyone Wants" is a madcap, extremely "over-the-top" story of a rather eventful year in the life of Jayson Blocher, a joyously flamboyantly gay boy from a small town in Wisconsin. A series of events lead to his leaving home to go to Manhattan and live with his estranged father, who runs an escort agency for men who want to spend time with Broadway... Read Full Review

Josh Kilmer-Purcell has done it again. Hysterical tail of a creative kid trying to follow his dream while growing up with a variety of dysfunctional characters around him. Hard to put down, wish there was more!

Please make sure you have plenty of time when you begin a book like this...as you will be glued to it from that point on! Enjoy.

This novel goes from gay and ridiculous to even more gay and more ridiculous. Josh Kilmer-Purcell manages to write a book that really couldn't be more different than his memoir. Jayson Blocher is like an amalgamation of every over-the-top child star ever, but gay. Every character her is a caricature to the nth degree, but all so carefully crafted that you fall for them and their madness anyway. Plus, oh, prostitution, drugs,... Read Full Review