SuitabookBelonging and identity
Mackie is a Replacement living among humans while connected to an underworld community, and must find his place in one world or the other.
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Brenna Yovanoff - Author
A dark coming-of-age fantasy about belonging, secrecy and divided identity. Mackie’s wish for ordinary life is disrupted by a missing baby, leading him towards an unsettling hidden world and a choice about where he belongs.
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, he's slowly dying in the human world. Mackie would give anything to live a normal life, play his bass, and find out more about an oddly intriguing girl named Tate. But when Tate's baby sister goes missing, Mackie is drawn 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.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA dark coming-of-age fantasy about belonging, secrecy and divided identity. Mackie’s wish for ordinary life is disrupted by a missing baby, leading him towards an unsettling hidden world and a choice about where he belongs.
Mackie is a Replacement living among humans while connected to an underworld community, and must find his place in one world or the other.
Expect a brooding supernatural atmosphere involving deathly figures, murky underground places, a missing baby and dark creatures.
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