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The Replacement Book

Mackie Doyle is not of this world - and his world wants him back... Edward Scissorhands meets The Catcher in the RyeRead More

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  • Andrea Chettle29 March 2011

    This is a book for anyone who has ever felt out of place in the world. Anyone whose ever felt that they are the wrong fit while everyone else fits just right. It's a book for anyone who loves tales of dark fairies. The sort of fairies that live under a slag heap and steal away babies to sacrifice every seven years. Fairies who survive on the adoration of humans and will do anything to get it. Mostly though, this is a book for anyone that loves a good story. One that wraps tendrils, thick and green and just a little poisonous around you and pulls you right into the plot. The story of one who's left behind to take the place of a stolen child. The Replacement

    I loved this book. It's dark, twisty and unsettling. Digging into the secrets of the town of Gentry is like picking up a rock and finding all sorts of wriggling, scuttling, biting creatures underneath. Although I referred to them as fairies, the author doesn't actually name her creations leaving it up to the reader's mind to name and claim them. The living dead girls, The Cutter, The Morrigan and her sister The Lady are all so cleverly drawn into the plot that you could quite easily believe that there really is a kingdom right below our own.

    Apart from the magical creatures, however, this is a story about family and what it means to belong. Its about how far someone will go to protect/save a person they love. At it's heart, though, it's about accepting who you are and the situation you find yourself living in whatever that may be.

    I would really recommend that you pick up a copy of The Replacement and visit the town of Gentry . Just don't stay too long because it's not always a safe place to be.

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    Mackie Doyle is a replacement - a fairy child left in the crib of a human baby sixteen years ago to replace the baby when it was stolen away by the fey. So though he lives in the small town of Gentry Mackie's real home is the fey world of tunnels and black murky water a world of living dead girls ruled by a little tattooed princess. Now because his fey blood gives him fatal allergies to iron blood and consecrated ground Mackie is slowly dying in the human world. Mackie would give anything just to be normal to live quietly amongst humans practice his bass guitar and spend time with his crush Tate. But when Tate's baby sister goes missing Mackie is drawn irrevocably back home to the fey underworld of Gentry known as Mayhem where he must face down the dark creatures rescue the child and find his rightful place - in our world or theirs.

  • BookDepository

    The Replacement : Paperback : Simon & Schuster Ltd : 9781847388391 : : 06 Jan 2011 : Mackie Doyle is not of this world - and his world wants him back... Edward Scissorhandsmeets The Catcher in the Rye

  • RedHouse

    Dark and atmospheric, The Replacement is guaranteed to chill the blood of young teen readers.

  • 9781847388391
  • 9781847388391
  • Brenna Yovanoff
  • 6 January 2011
  • Simon & Schuster Childrens Books
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 384
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