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REVIEW: The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff

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Description

Mackie Doyle 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, because of fatal allergies to iron, blood, and consecrated ground, Mackie is fighting to survive in the human world. Mackie would give anything to live among us, to practice on his bass or spend time with his crush, Tate. But when Tate’s baby sister goes missing, Mackie is drawn irrevocably 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.
Edward Scissorhands meets The Catcher in the Rye in this wildly imaginative and frighteningly beautiful horror novel about an unusual boy and his search for a place to belong.

About the Author

Brenna Yovanoff is a debut author who has published in various journals. She lives in Denver, Colorado.

Product Details

  • Reading level: Young Adult
  • Hardcover: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Razorbill (September 21, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1595143378
  • ISBN-13: 978-1595143372

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LOVED IT

This story really defines creepiness and how a seemly normal community has an literally underground magical problem.  Mackie is a replacement child in which the fairy (the author doesn’t specifically use that term) switch out a human baby for one of theirs, one mostly likely to die. I feel in love with Mackie and how his family loves him even though he is not really theirs.  His sister Emma states that she decided to care for him by saying “I choose to care for you” and I am paraphrasing here.  I really hope that this will be made into a series since I am still thinking about the characters. You will probably love this one if you enjoy Holly Black.

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Winner will be chosen by Random.org on 11.13.10, contest ends on 11.12.10
Winner will have 48 hours to respond to email or a new winner will be chosen.
This giveaway is sponsored by ME and Razorbill since they sent me the ARC.
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  3. Mary D
    zenrei57 (at) hotmail (dot) com

    ooooooh, I’ve been drooling over this book forever! Don’t you just *love* that cover?! Thank you so much for such an awesome giveway and HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!

  14. So it’s time to start with the daily entries again. I figure you must get tired of seeing Daily Entry all the time and nothing else. So I’ll try to be more interesting this time around.

    So…have you read ‘The Hunger Games’ Just finished last night and it was absolute love. 😀

    ellen_r_hudson(at)yahoo(dot)ca

  34. Hello, again!

    You have so many giveaways going it’s hard to come up with stuff to say for the daily entries, but I don’t want to be boring.

    Sooo…okay, I guess I am being boring…

    Daily Entry

    ellen_r_hudson(at)yahoo(dot)ca

  51. Daily Entry

    The Replacement. Looking at the baby carriage on the cover makes me think of The Changelling. Then it makes me wonder if I was switched at birth…

    ellen_r_hudson(at)yahoo(dot)ca

  136. I really want to read this, but it’s not out in the UK yet. Grr. Good luck to everyone! =]

    cheezyfeetbooks AT rocketmail DOT com

  167. April X
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    An email has been sent to the lucky people named above (first part of their email address in case my note ends up in spam). They have 48 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen.

    Thanks to all who entered.

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