The Changeling in Into the Forest

Sep 07, 2017 Wren rated it it was ok · review of another edition

This is a story about the bad things that happen to parents who spam too much of their kids' lives on Facebook.

I first discovered The Changeling on a list of "Dark fairytale books", a list which included several books I had already read and loved - but unfortunately this one just wasn't my cup of tea.

Started out slowly introducing the characters and their backgrounds and relationships and I should be caring about them, shouldn't I? Yet they felt somehow dispassionate, hollow. I couldn't seem to ...more

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Jan 19, 2018 jocelyn rated it really liked it

Shelves: poc, folk-fairy-myth, set-nyc, atmospheric-moody, owned-phys, dark-spooky

"People call us witches... But maybe what they're really saying is that we were women who did things that seemed impossible.... When you have to save the one you love, you will become someone else, something else. You will transform. The only real magic is the things we'll do for the ones we love."

This was a wild ride. Even though it's set in contemporary New York City, there is an unsettling twinge to the atmosphere from the get-go that leaves you sliiiiiightly uncomfortable. And then about ...more

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Sep 16, 2020 Ryan Johnson rated it it was amazing

This book is utterly and completely my thing. Dark fantasy dances with realistic characters, a deep mystery with twists that I never would have seen coming, though I wish some characters near the middle of the novel made more of an impact near the end (in my heart of hearts, I hope it's sequel baiting, as I could spend another seventeen books in this universe). The characters actually act like folks in the modern world (constantly posting baby pictures on Facebook actually becomes a super-import ...more

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