Like Dorothy or Alice before her, 16-year-old Candy is an innocent plucked from the mundanity of her everyday life and thrust into a mystical place filled with untold wonders and horrors. This conflict also will align the fortunes of the Card-Reader with the unlikely heroine of the story, one Candy Quackenbush from Chickentown, Minn., the resourceful young woman at the center of Barker’s expansive tale. The cards foretell that a war is coming, one that will remake the land - an archipelago of 25 islands, each of which stands at a given hour of the day and one mysterious island that represents “time out of time.” In the opening scene of “Abarat: Absolute Midnight,” the third installment in Clive Barker’s lavish fantasy adventure series, a blind man is alone in his island home, intuiting the messages transmitted by tarot cards.
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