The Replacement
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Mackie Doyle is not one of us. Though he lives in the tiny town of Gentry, he comes from a world of tunnels and black murky water, a world of living dead girls ruled by a small 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 Loads and find his rightful place, in our world, or theirs.
Edward Scissorhands meets The Catcher in the Rye in this wildly imaginative and frighteningly gorgeous horror novel about an unusual boy and his search for a place to belong.Amazon.com Review
Q: Where did you get the thought for The Replacement?
A: The Replacement happened because I’ve permanently been fascinated by the thought of changelings, but that by itself wasn’t enough to kick-start the tale. I didn’t have an actual book until I ongoing wondering one day what it would be like to be a changeling today, where everything is made of steel, and high school means being around a lot of additional people all day every day and trying to act normal. One afternoon, I wrote a couple chapters and they worked, so I kept writing!
Q: How does The Replacement differ from additional novels about changelings and the fey?
A: I’d say that one of the largest differences is probably the tone. Even though the changeling aspect of the tale has a strong basis in folklore, a lot of the settings and the characters are very contemporary. The tale is just as much about Mackie finding his place in the human world as it is about the fantastical world that exists underground.
Q: Your main character, Mackie, is a teenage boy. Agreed that you are not, in fact, a teenage boy, did you find it hard writing a male voice?
A: Honestly, I was really frightened at first, but that went away once I really ongoing writing. Now, I don’t reflect it was much different from writing any additional point of view. Every character is their own person, and ideally they each have their own voice. It was really an issue of figuring out what Mackie’s voice sounded like, rather than figuring out what a teenage boy sounded like.
Q: Do you listen to composition while you write? If so, what kinds of composition, artists/bands or songs influenced The Replacement?
A: I like to listen to composition while I write. For The Replacement, I had a dedicated playlist that was pretty much all rock composition, but the two songs I listened to more than any additional were The Rat by Dead Confederate, and Allison Crowe’s gorgeous take in version of Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen.
Q: What do you like about writing for teenagers?
A: I really like the clearness and the immediacy. The emotions are very raw and intense. I reflect there’s something so exciting about telling a tale where a lot of the things that take place to the characters are happening to them for the very first time.
Q: What were some of the books that you loved as a teen? Did any of these books influence The Replacement?
A: As a teenager, I loved to read. My school locker was full of books and my bedroom floor was covered in them. Some of my absolute favorites were The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, and One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey. But, if I had to pick one piece of fiction that really influenced The Replacement, it would certainly be The Lottery by Shirley Jackson.
Q: The Replacement is being described as Edward Scissorhands meets The Catcher in the Rye, and it certainly has reasonably a Tim Burton-esque feel. Do you reflect that’s an apt description of your book? How did you go about making the uniquely unsettling world of Mayhem?
A: Well, I’m crazy about J.D. Salinger and Tim Burton, so to me, that’s an incredibly high compliment—I’ll take it! For the world of Mayhem, I thought about all the things I like and the things that scare me (which are sometimes the same things anyway—I like horror movies). Then I kind of let them live them together in Mayhem and watched how they eventually grew together.
Q: If you weren’t an leader, what do you reflect your career would be?
A: Well, the actual answer is that I would probably be an editor or a copywriter or a proofreader, which is all stuff I’ve done before, and in a lot of ways, it’s all very closely related to being an leader. So, for the sake of novelty, I’m going to say that I would be a forensic anthropologist. Because that just seems really appealing.
Q: What would you like your readers to take away from the experience of reading The Replacement?
A: It’s permanently hard to say what a name will get out of a book, because people certainly bring their own experiences to books. But, if readers take anything away from The Replacement, I hope it’s the sense that everyone has their own doubts and insecurities, even if they’re excellent at hiding them, and you don’t have to be ashamed of who you are, no matter how freakish or weird you might feel sometimes.
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Sixteen years ago in Gentry, the tattooed princess sent Mackie Doyle as The Replacement who took the place in a crib of a newborn human baby. He is not the only Replacement in the town, but the locals are unaware of the switches and besides the changes has proven profitable for the ignorant but blissful townsfolk, additional nearby places have collapsed. Mackie leaving Gentry to go to the underworld tunnels of Mayhem is treacherous for him but by staying he has allergies to iron and blood that can kill him. The girl he likes Alice donates blood and has silver pinned on her pierced tongue; he also cannot walk on sacred planet though his dad is a pastor with a church.
But, the weird death of Natalie has shocked every one. Natalie’s family tree attends the church of Mackie’s dad though the lad does not know her or her older sister Tate who attends his school. The grieving girl obsesses over learning the truth about her sibling’s death, which places Mackie in the awkward situation of choosing life above ground or not more than as he comes to know Tate.
This is an extremely dark horror tale that grips the audience from the moment the teens are introduced and never slows down until the final confrontation. The Gentry high school students makes the tale line seem plausible as most behave with reckless abandon with sex, drugs, cigarettes and alcohol prevalent; the teens challenge the adult power. This is a strong novel that uses the Doppelganger Replacement as the premise of an exhilarating novel that warns readers to look beyond the glitter to insure there is no monster; like Tate is doing with no allies until Mackie joins her quest.
Harriet Klausner
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
The Replacement is the first book I’ve ever read involving a Changeling. The plot is an appealing one and the characters are realistic (when you look past the supernatural aspect of them) and worthy of sympathy. Mackie Doyle is a wonderful main character who comes into his own in the middle and end of the book. The dialogue is truly that of teenagers. Yovanoff has done an brilliant job with this book. I look forwards to any new work from her.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
This weird and to some extent creepy tale is a refreshing twist on the paranormal genre that has been infiltrating the young adult books as of late. The tale is completely different than all the additional ones I’ve read as of lately, so there is nothing to compare it to. While it does pull from some folklore tales from days gone by, it’s nothing that I’ve heard recently and it’s done in such a wonderful way it leaves me wondering what exactly I just finished reading.
There is a tale in there with an obvious beginning, middle, and end, but it’s convoluted in such a way that after starting the book I wasn’t sure where it was going. I wasn’t sure what the point was since the reader is just thrown into the middle of this weird town and the life of one weird boy. This worked as the tale showed itself and the plot thickened. This isn’t a mystery so much as following our main character’s journey of self-discovery, which is reasonably mysterious on its own. He learns who he is and where he really comes from and we get to follow safely by his side. If you are looking for something unique, but still slightly off kilter, this is the book to check out!
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
From the moment I saw the take in for The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff, as well as reading the synopsis where the main protagonist is male, I had to pick this one up to read. Sorry to say, what I read inside the book was very missing. Talk about a huge disappointment. The premise is brilliant about a very awkward and frightened teenage boy who is from another realm. But because of the overall vague scenery of the characters and very slow beginning, where again the key word is vague, I couldn’t stick with it and sorry to say this became a DNF (Did Not End) for me.
This is a perfect example of why you shouldn’t pick a book by its take in as well as trust the blurb on the take in from a very well loved and successful leader who just also happens to be part of a blog with Brenna Yovanoff.
Mackie Doyle is a very weird teenager. He tries to fit in, but can’t. He’s known as a weird and creepy boy who is very pale with blond hair and dark eyes. Mackie is allergic to iron, and when he sees blood, he becomes very ill. He tries his best not to bring attention to himself for reason that are just known and not really stated. The town of Gentry, where he lives, is nearly as weird as Mackie is. Mackie also hides a dark secret, one his parents and sister hides from the world, where they even keep the most vital facts from him. Mackie knows he’s not normal, but no one will tell him why, until one of Mackie’s schoolmates, Tate, has a family tree tragedy. Tate’s small sister, Natalie, has been killed, or I reflect she has been killed, but again, everyone seems to dance around the situation that has occurred.
Tate knows her sister’s death was due to an evil influence, but again her finding the answers will be very hard because everyone around her ignores the signs and pretends that nothing is incorrect. A fantastic deal of healthy infants are dying for no reason in Gentry. But Mackie is getting closer to the truth about himself and Tate’s sister, for Mackie has replaced the real Malcolm Doyle when he was only a baby. He’s known as a Castoff and was expected to die, but thrived. Now the creatures of the underground, the ones that have jagged teeth and hideous features want Mackie to join them. If he doesn’t, he will continue to weaken, and his sister Emma will also suffer, for she was the one who was able to save him from dying when he was only a baby.
The Replacement is a very dark and weird book that I had no tie to. No one wants to admit to anything, and by the time I met the freaky supernatural, “let’s wear our scariest Halloween costumes and go BOO to Mackie to make him tremble in dread tween” fairy girls, I knew then I was done. I felt no tie to Mackie, his quandary or the spooky atmosphere I guess should be feeling. I reflect my huge problem was the way things were written. Brenna sets up the tale, but does so in such a way where there is too much telling and not showing. There was no depth, no push to keep me interested. Everything was very hollow and more surface reading if anything.
Now I know because I didn’t end The Replacement, things could have improved in the second half of the book. Sorry to say because the beginning was stale and just blah for me, I couldn’t continue.
Katiebabs
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Maggie Stiefvater’s quote on the book covers says “a gorgeous tale of hideous things”, and I couldn’t agree more. This book was completely creepy but not horror movie scary. Gentry is a town frightened to stand up for itself. Children disappear and hideous things take their place, but no one says or does anything about it, until Tate refuses to except the disappearance of her small sister. Mackie, one of “the replacements” is growing sick from all the iron in the world he lives in, he’s drawn to Mayhem to find a remedy. Mayhem is full of perfectly hideous creatures, and Mackie soon gets in over his head.
I really loved the characters in this book. Mackie was completely naive, but while he thinks of himself as weak, he really has a fantastic inner might that shines through. He was smart, amusing, and courageous, even when he was sick and frightened. Mackie’s best friend was also a fantastic character, he was so loyal to Mackie that it made me smile every time he showed up. As for Tate, our female lead, normally I like girls who are smart-mouthed and generally surely, but Tate takes it a small too far. I never really felt a tie to her because she never really lets us in. My favorite character of all though was the Morrigan. She’s innocence and wisdom all wrapped up in one package. I adored her!
Overall, this book was creeptastic and I loved every minute of it. Quick paced and full of suspense. I loved all of the descriptions of the hideous creatures that live in mayhem. I especially loved the scene where Mackie plays on stage with the additional hideous people, it’s electric and just a fantastic description of the power of composition! The books ending wrapped up nicely, there’s not really a lot of loose ends, but like real life, it didn’t really end with everything perfect and tied up in a bow. I look forwards to reading more from Brenna Yovanoff.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5