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The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Source: Bought
Format: Trade Paperback
Pages: 352
Publisher: Razorbill
Purchase: Amazon | Book Depository
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.
THOUGHTS
My rating:
Reading The Replacement was like listening to those horror stories told by friends in sleepovers. That's how it felt like to me. Kind of creepy, but could sometimes sound a bit silly.
There were some confusing parts in this book that I guess I was supposed to know, but I didn't, so... my bad. For example, I only knew that these creatures who get kids at night are actually fairies. The author didn't use the term in the book and I don't read a lot of books with fairies in them so I found that a bit confusing. And I think I'm not the only one, based on some reviews I've read.
What I liked in The Replacement:
- Creepy. You know those YA novels that promise to be a really creepy read that you won't be able to sleep with the lights off after reading it, but then once you started reading, the book ends up to be a cheesy love story? Yeah, this book isn't one of them. The creepiness saved the book, for me. In my case, reading this one was creepier because I didn't know who or what Mackie is.
- The cover. Just as creepy as the story. My first thoughts were, why are those stuff hanging above a crib? That's dangerous!
I had a hard time reading this book because sometimes I get lost in the plot, and I don't know what's going on... mostly when I get confused over a book, it's a good thing (because I want to read MORE to find out what the heck is happening), but this one... I guess I just didn't know what was going on because I didn't pay attention. I felt like I was in a boring class listening to a boring teacher or something. :(
The characters are unlikable, too. Mackie whined a lot. A lot. He's like the male version of Bella Swan. And it wasn't just Mackie. Tate was almost always angry it was annoying. The Morringan was so weird she became annoying. Roswell was an a$$hole he was, you guessed it, annoying. Almost everyone was annoying.
I didn't really know what kind of book this was going to be when I bought it, but I gotta say I was kind of disappointed. This book just wasn't for me.
Labels: 1, brenna yovanoff, what i've read
posted by Pam (jellylovesbooks) 
Thursday, December 29, 2011 
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