Author: Brenna Yovanoff
Pages: 343
Date Started: Feb 13th, 2011
Date Finished: Feb 14th, 2011
Did you like it? This book was harder for me to get into. I went about 50 pages before I really started to get into the story or even understood what was going on in the first place. But once I got into it, man was I hooked. I had to take a break to sleep (Regrettably) but just Wow. Mackie was an excellent hero. Maybe more like an anti-hero in the beginning, but he became a hero because he got done what needed to be done. The only thing that threw me off with him, was the seeming disconnect between what was going on in his head/body and what he said out loud. Like before he expressed his feelings for Tate, the reader didn't know...I mean there were hints but he wasn't like pining over her like he was Alice. It was different, but I think I liked it. Then there is the relationship between Mackie and Emma. Pretty much everyone knows that Mackie is not like him, but the people he is closest to accept him all the same, and this is maybe tripletrue for Emma, his sister. She was amazing and fierce and everything you'd want in an older sibling. It wasn't so much the storyline that made the book so good for me, it was the characters and their relationships that got me. I give this book a 5 out of 6 for it's amazing characters and Yovanoff's lovely writing ability.
What's it about?
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.Mackie is a replacement. The real Mackie Doyle was taken in infancy and this Mackie replaced him. In the small town of Gentry, things like this are normal. People look the other way. No one really gets worked up over it. No one but Mackie...but not at first. In the beginning, Mackie is obsessed with blending in, until he learns that all his efforts to blend in have just made him more visible. So he ends up embracing who he is and what he is to make the town a better place. He finds people who can help him, in exchange for him helping them and begins his "mission" to fix the town. I'm kind of at a loss as to how to describe this book and what happens in it. It's all mystery and romance and being the good guy when every body around you thinks that you're the bad guy.
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