review (replacements)

 (read: April ‘11)

      The Replacements

    Prod dets

Replacement series, book 1

Pub: 2010, Razorbill

Author: Brenna Yovanoff

Cat: fiction

Format: paperback (ful); 375 pp w/ 32 chapters

Age Range: YA                                                 

            Synopsis

Mackie Doyle is the Replacement. Though he lives in the small town of Gentry, Mackie 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 slowly dying in the human world.

    

Mackie would give anything to live among us, to practise on his bass guitar spend time with an oddly intriguing girl called 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.

     my Thoughts (review)

so this wasn’t my favourites of books, though everything about it was good, even the story, I just couldn’t lose myself in it, and that meant that it took me, like, forever to finish the thing (not a good thing for me). I like Mackie as a character, liked that he had to fit in, the way he was, that he couldn’t draw attention to himself, which he had to fit in when clearly he didn’t. Or did he?

    

Children constantly dye in the town, and Mackie was the only one that lived longer than a week, which is a big deal, only problem, is now he’s getting sick. To me it was really his sister that got him back into the world in which he came, since he needed help to live so she bargained for it, making him have to play in a band for the people underground.

    

Then there’s Tate, pissed that her sister had been replaced, and only see seem to understand that the girl that died wasn’t her sister, and knowing that there’s something more to Mackie she asks for his help. Though reluctant to be the hero he ends up realising the only way to be happy is with a girl that needs more from him that he might be able to give.

Series

[tb], Smoulder,

~The Space Between~

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