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Rent The Stolen Child
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Format: Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Random House Inc
Published: May 2007
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $16.95
Pages: 384
Synopsis
This literary fantasy marks the author's debut. In 1949, a band of hobgoblins living in the woods near a remote American farmhouse kidnap seven-year-old Henry Day and substitute one of their own, a changeling who himself was once human. As the changeling Henry Day gradually reclaims his lost humanity and recalls dim scraps of his original German childhood as a piano prodigy, the first Henry Day, now called Aniday, leads a feral, lonely existence as he transforms into a faery.
Reviews
The story starts slow and stays that way. Ultimately I'd call the book boring, very little happens. I don't put many books down halfway through, but if I wasn't waiting for my next book to arrive I certainly would have walked away from this one. This could have been condensed into a short story, not enough happened of interest to be worthy of a full book.
I, like many others, found the characters to be dull and 2 dimensional. I had the audio book version and, as I waited for my next title to be sent to me, listened to it in the car. I was seriously concerned I might fall asleep. The characters are not likable, the story is not interesting and I found the plot to be really shallow.