Right now, some of you may be saying, “Really, Brenna? Again? You managed to break yourself yet again? Aren’t you getting too old for these kind of hijinks? Also, you are a writer and your whole entire job revolves around sitting at a computer, which is markedly not-dangerous. Which explains both my spotty internet presence and the fact that I have been uncommonly cranky-sorry, friends and family! (And Most Especially D.) However, I immediately (sadly) complicated it/screwed it all up by blowing out my ACL. Okay, I’ll be the first to say that this past week has had way more than its fair share of awesome (like, oh, The Space Between hitting shelves). Many million thanks to all my fellow Creepy Cake N Bakers-and special thanks to Dawn Metcalf and Stacey Jay, for not only organizing the whole thing, but for presenting me with this delightful Bride of Frankenstein trophy! Well! I am deeply honored to have Won a Prize, which recently arrived in the mail, and which I have posed with some lemon sandwich cookies for best effect: (Sept.Hey, remember that time I made a heart out of red velvet cake and cream cheese and lots and lots of delicious cherry-based gore?
Combined with wicked cover art, this book has the makings of a success. Debut novelist Yovanoff offers well-developed characters, a fascinating take on the Fairy Court, and an exciting story line. Eventually, the two teenagers join forces in an attempt to overturn the town's intolerable status quo. Mackie, however-sickened by iron, terrified that his neighbors will turn on him-has paid a terrible price, as has Tate Stewart, who is traumatized by the loss of her baby sister, the latest stolen child. What, after all, is one baby taken every seven years, in exchange for continued economic prosperity? "Everyone else's unemployment skyrockets, and their tech plants go bankrupt and their dairy farms fail, but not ours," says Mackie's sister, Emma, one of the few who will acknowledge the town's secrets. Everyone knows it, though no one will acknowledge it, for fear of upsetting a deal the town made long ago. Mackie is a changeling, a fairy child exchanged for a stolen human baby. Many high school students feel like outsiders, but in this dark fantasy Mackie Doyle has better reason than most to be alienated.
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