Nothing earth-shattering with this book, nothing special. I don’t regret reading it, but I’m also not recommending it to anyone, so it falls in the category of “meh”, I guess. The gist: the faeries are children, and they were all at one time human. Through the centuries a child is taken and replaced with a faerie, who assumes the child’s life. The child then lives with the faeries, becomes one of them, and awaits his/her turn to replace another child. The book is basically about one of those switcharoos, when a boy named Harry is taken and replaced with the monster kid. It follows both of their lives, showing you how Harry, now called Aniday, and the changeling, now called Harry, each cope with their situations.
I think what would have made it more interesting for me is more history on the faeries. It’s a cycle, that is explained, but it had to start somewhere, dern it! Where did it start? I need to know!! I had to google it. Google didn’t tell me how it started, but I did learn that in the Middle Ages if you had a deformed or retarded child, you blamed it on a changeling. That’s pretty much how the whole thing started, they needed a reason for the birth defects and science hadn’t looked into that yet.
Skip this book, go to google instead. Far more interesting.
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