The Replacement

I could tell you about the wonderful writing of this book, about it's genuine, flawed characters and its imaginative, complex worlds, but sometimes those things don't make a book. Sometimes the things I usually get all critical about take a backseat for the way a book makes me feel, and this book has me aching.

I liked this book for half of it, really enjoyed it for the second half, and I only realised on the last page, with pressure behind my eyes and a heaviness in my chest, that I'd fallen in love with it. The Replacement took me completely off guard.