The Replacement
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4.2 • 73 Ratings
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A small town harbors dark secrets and darker creatures in this “fast-paced, dark delicacy” (Kirkus Reviews).
“Unsettling villains and intriguing moral ambivalence make this effort shockingly original and . . . breathtaking.”—Booklist, starred review
“Funny and brave, scary and touching.”—Lauren Kate, New York Times bestselling author of the Fallen novels
Something’s rotten beneath the town of Gentry . . .
Mackie is not one of us. Though he lives in the small town of Gentry, he comes from a world of tunnels and black murky water, a world of living dead girls ruled by a little tattooed princess. He is a Replacement—left in the crib of a human baby sixteen years ago. Now, he’s slowly dying in the human world.
Mackie would give anything to live a normal life, play his bass, and find out more about an oddly intriguing girl named Tate. But when Tate’s baby sister goes missing, he is drawn into the underworld of Gentry, known as Mayhem. He must face the dark creatures of the slag heaps and find his rightful place, in our world—or theirs.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Many high school students feel like outsiders, but in this dark fantasy Mackie Doyle has better reason than most to be alienated. Mackie is a changeling, a fairy child exchanged for a stolen human baby. Everyone knows it, though no one will acknowledge it, for fear of upsetting a deal the town made long ago. What, after all, is one baby taken every seven years, in exchange for continued economic prosperity? "Everyone else's unemployment skyrockets, and their tech plants go bankrupt and their dairy farms fail, but not ours," says Mackie's sister, Emma, one of the few who will acknowledge the town's secrets. Mackie, however sickened by iron, terrified that his neighbors will turn on him has paid a terrible price, as has Tate Stewart, who is traumatized by the loss of her baby sister, the latest stolen child. Eventually, the two teenagers join forces in an attempt to overturn the town's intolerable status quo. Debut novelist Yovanoff offers well-developed characters, a fascinating take on the Fairy Court, and an exciting story line. Combined with wicked cover art, this book has the makings of a success. Ages 12 up.
Customer Reviews
Good Read
I enjoyed the writing style and voice; a nice detour from a female protagonist's POV and the story is refreshingly different. But something was missing, since I did not find myself rushing through the pages to get to the resolution. Still, Mackie is endering and quite possibly the first YA male character whose angsty demeanor isn't unwarranted.
It was a good book
I liked it sorry but I don’t know how to say what I like and don’t like
Great story
I genuinely enjoyed reading and highly recommend this book. (Constructive criticism for the author) The book has many flaws, from missing words, misspellings, grammar errors and at certain points I was confused as to what I was reading.