New Book: The Replacement

The next book selection for The Bookish Owl is The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff. A story based on changeling folk lore, which has always interested me. In case you don't know what a changeling is, it is a human-like thing, fairy, creature or whatever the story happens to be, that is put in place of a stolen human baby.

The Story:

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.

You can read reviews of the book on Good Reads 

I'm excited to get started, I've never read a book based on changeling folk lore before so this is very different for me.

Have you ever read this book? What did you think of it?

And remember, if you have a book suggestion, be sure to email me @ thebookishowl@gmail.com and I'll get to the book as soon as I can.

Chapter 1 of The Bookish Owl

Hello and welcome to The Bookish Owl, a book review and book club. It's easy to join, all you have to do is become a follower of my blog and follow my Twitter feed.

On the Blog

So here's how it will work; every month I will choose two books for us to read. One book will be the primary book, and the other is the alternate book. You can read both books if you want or just one of them. And it doesn't matter which, because both books will be discussed. If you have a suggestion, you can email me at  thebookishowl@gmail.com , I may use the book you suggest for the bookclub, or I'll read it and then give a review. But one thing is for sure, if you send a suggestion it will be added to the "Reader Recommendations" page.

When I announce the book I will give the date and time at which it will be discussed in the forum which you can find at the top of the blog. And please be sure to visit The Rules topic when entering the forum.

Also, along with our club reads I will be reading other books on the side which I will be giving reviews of.

On Twitter

On my Twitter feed I will be giving updates on posts, asking followers questions, and just doing posts that is book/reading related.

On to the good stuff...

I already have our first read picked out, it's by Dean Koontz I do not have an alternate for the first month however, and I"m not ready to announce the book yet since I still haven't gotten my hands on it. It'd be pretty bad if I couldn't read the book but still had to host the discussion. What kind of book club leader would I be?