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. She does an excellent job of creating and sustaining a mood of fear, hopelessness, and misery throughout the novel, something that is lightened only occasionally by Mackie's dry humor and the easy charm of his friend Roswell.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. Yovanoff's innovative plot draws on the changeling legends from Western European folklore. Meanwhile, he and his friends plot to rescue Tate's stolen sister from the Lady. Mackie agrees to help the Morrigan maintain the unwitting townspeople's goodwill in exchange for a drug he needs to survive.

When a classmate's baby sister is abducted and a Replacement left in her place, Mackie is reluctantly drawn into the age-old rift between the Morrigan and the Lady, sisters who lead the two changeling clans who live underneath Gentry. Mackie's struggles to go unnoticed are made more difficult by his severe allergies to iron and other metal, his inability to set foot on consecrated ground such as his minister father's church, and his tendency to become severely ill around blood. In their town of Gentry, there is an unspoken acknowledgment that a child is stolen every seven years in an uneasy bargain for the town's prosperity. In this grim debut novel, the Doyles hide the terrible secret that 16-year-old Mackie is a changeling who was swapped for their real son when he was a baby.

The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff