Everyone knows it, though no one will acknowledge it, for fear of upsetting a deal the town made long ago. Mackie is a changeling, a fairy child exchanged for a stolen human baby. Yovanoff has created a great atmospheric novel that will appeal to older teens and adult readers.ĭecsription and picture courtesy of Goodreads.Many high school students feel like outsiders, but in this dark fantasy Mackie Doyle has better reason than most to be alienated. The Replacement was a well written story of dark and dangerous beings. I would have loved to learn more about his family and what made them the exception to the rest of the townspeople. The one character I would have like to see more development on was Mackie's friend Roswell. She was willing to sacrifice for her brother so that he could survive in the human world. While almost all replacements, sickly to begin with, died young, Mackie grew up to be a teenager because of the love and attention that Emma gave him. I liked how her love for her sister was so great that she was willing to speak up for her sister even though the rest of the town, including her family, was following the status quo.Įmma too, was a strong, independent female character who accepted and loved her brother Mackie's replacement, despite knowing he wasn't really her brother. When her younger sister's 'replacement' dies, Tate is the only one to defy the townspeople's long-held silence regarding missing babies. Tate was a strong, independent female character. The two characters that stood out the most for me were Tate and Emma. Told through the eyes of Mackie Doyle it portrays the uglier side of human nature and unimaginable beings that exist on the fringes of human society. My Review: The Replacement is an original and edgy read that introduces readers to a dark and twisted world. Will love finally make him worthy of the human world?

But now, with a budding relationship with tough, wounded, beautiful Tate, Mackie has too much to lose.

Now the creatures under the hill want him back, and Mackie must decide where he really belongs and what he really wants.Ī month ago, Mackie might have told them to buzz off. I received an ARC of this book through Star Book Tours.ĭescription: Mackie Doyle seems like everyone else in the perfect little town of Gentry, but he is living with a fatal secret - he is a Replacement, left in the crib of a human baby sixteen years ago.

The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff