The Replacement - Breanna Yovanoff

Today's read for Halloween October reads is a title that I have been looking forward to reading and I was glad when our library's copy arrived today :)


                                                            

                       Review : The Replacement - Breanna Yovanoff - September 2010

This is one book that I have secretly been coveting and it's been on my to buy/read list , so lucky for me when I discovered it in the new books bin at work today. I work by day at Greerton Library, Tauranga, New Zealand.
I hadn't exactly grasped before I read the novel what it was about , just that it was a new teen supernatural and the cover looked totally awesome , it reminds me of the scene at the start of the movie "Hook" where Peter's pram and him in it are abandoned. For those who don't know "Hook" is a take-off of Peter Pan with Robin Willams as Peter Pan and Dustin Hoffman as Captain Hook.
Meet Malcom "Mackie" Doyle , well that who he is to all his friends and that's been his name since he was about a year old but really he is a nobody, he shouldn't really exist . He is what they call a replacement.
Years ago in the small town of Gentry , creatures took little kids and sacrificed them so that they may live and replaced the children they took with dead kids called "replacements'. These kids then grew up in the family in turn for the kid they lost. However , replacements aren't exactly like anybody else - they can't stand to be near anything that contains Iron - it makes them incredibly ill and even near the point of death. To a Replacement - Iron is like Kryptonite to Superman and Garlic or DMB to Vampires and Silver to a Werewolf.
When Mackie meets people exactly like him , he finds that he can be himself until he discovers what they really are and the true reason behind the children going missing.  When Mackie's friend Tate's sister Natalie goes missing . Can Mackie defy who he is meant to be and be who he is inside himself to help save Natalie or will his time be up as they see him betraying his so-called race ?
A story that has alot of interesting twists and turns and that it is a book that will keep you hooked and once you start reading you won't want to stop.
I am looking forward to watching and keeping an eye out to see whether Breanna will release any more books or will The Replacement be a one-hit wonder , Here's to hoping not , Breanna if you are reading - Please write more books :).