Sarah's Reviews > The Changeling

This book is absolutely heart-wrenchingly beautiful. LaValle's writing gripped me from the first sentence and never let go. I skipped hanging out with friends at a convention to finish it, it's so good. If you can't read about children in peril, then I don't recommend The Changeling, but if the concept doesn't bother you, you must must must read this novel. It's a masterpiece of language and storytelling, a moving treatise on the dangers of modern parenthood, and a love letter to magical realism and modern fairy tales. It's hard to read in some places but so beautiful you won't be able to look away. This might be the best book I've read so far this year.