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I don’t usually buy books based on their cover art, but the cover for The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff was so deliciously morbid with that skeletal branch, and those scissors and knives and things above the stroller. Besides, changeling fantasy tends to hit all of the right buttons for me. Plus, the store had it as an audiobook, so I could get my grandmother to pay for it.

Mackie Doyle is a replacement, left in place of a human child by his own kind. Sickly, and unsuited to the human world, he was never supposed to live long, but somehow he has. All he really wants to do is live his human life with his family and friends, and spend time with a girl he likes from his school, named Tate. But when her baby sister changes suddenly, just before she sickens and dies, the town of Gentry starts whispering about changelings and the people under the slag heap, and sometimes they do more than whisper.

( All I want is for you to stand here and watch the people you love be horribly mutilated. Is that too much to ask? )

I don’t buy books based on their cover image all that often, but I’m glad this time I did.

Brenna Yovanoff can be found on livejournal at