Delia Sherman
Hardcover | Pages: 256 pages Rating: 3.6 | 1049 Users | 122 Reviews
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| Title | : | Changeling (Changeling #1) |
| Author | : | Delia Sherman |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 256 pages |
| Published | : | August 17th 2006 by Viking Juvenile |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Young Adult. Urban Fantasy. Paranormal. Fairies. Fiction. Childrens. Middle Grade |
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This was a really fun read. It is structured in your basic 'magical middle grade quest' arc that fans of Rick Riordan will be familiar with, but Changeling and Neef are both characters and I love how they play off each other. I particularly liked how Changeling exhibited several kind of autistic behaviors [even though it's never discussed explicitly in the text] because a lot of the reasons that people historically would accuse someone of being a changeling would be because they were acting 'weird' and expressing behaviors now associated with autism although they obviously didn't have a name for it back then but I thought that was a nice little touch. I also liked how the author updated a lot of the 'classic' fairy tales to fit into modern New York life, like Jack and the Beanstalk became Jack and the Extension ladder, and having fairies hold domain over things like Broadway and Wall Street instead of more traditional fairy knowes. Definitely going to be checking out the next book!Present Books Conducive To Changeling (Changeling #1)
| Original Title: | Changeling |
| ISBN: | 0670059676 (ISBN13: 9780670059676) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Changeling #1 |
| Setting: | New York City, New York(United States) |
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Ratings: 3.6 From 1049 Users | 122 ReviewsJudge Epithetical Books Changeling (Changeling #1)
This book was really good, so the parts of it which were frustrating were really more frustrating than they would have been in a mediocre book, sadly. Fantastic world-building and a smart, self-aware protagonist -- yay! But that protagonist couldn't manage a believable interaction with any of the other people in the book -- boo! Neef had pretty much no empathy for anyone, no sense that she should be concerned in anything but a mechanical how-does-this-affect-me way with other people's feelings.Having loved Sherman's story "CATNYP" in Datlow and Windling's The Faery Reel, I was very pleased to find out that she was writing a book about the heroine, Neef, a human changeling who lives with the fairy folk in New York Between. Neef's curiosity leads her to break a faerie law and sends her on a quest for three magical items, which she must find if she's to continue her life in New York Between. Any faerie world which includes not only the standard traditional fairies, from brownies to
Unknown to ordinary mortals, there are at least two New Yorks, which share geography,but not reality. Changeling is mostly set in New York Between, and Neef is the Changeling of the title, and lives in the Otherworld of New York Between. More specifically, she lives in Manhattan's Central Park, under the guardianship of her fairy godmother Astris the White Rat, and her fairy godfather, the shapeshifting Pouka, and the protection of the genius loci, or Genius of Central Park, The Green Lady.
Neef is a changeling, a mortal child switched at birth with a fairy and raised among the Folk. There are many changelings in the world, but Neef is the only changeling of Central Park. She lives with her fairy godmother Astris, a giant white rat, and spends her time with the assorted Folk of Central Park. All this changes, however, when she accidentally breaks the geas that was set upon her when she was brought into Central Park. Now, exiled from Central Park and a fugitive from the terrifying
Changeling is funny and fresh and fine, another in the short list of fabulous books set in New York City published in the past year. It is takes place in New York Between, and Sherman balances the Between of Faerie with a terrific young heroine named Neef, ringing changes on every single New York and Faerie trope you can imagine, and a few you can't.
While I never really warmed up to Neef, the protagonist, I thought her changeling counterpart totally, utterly rocked. I loved Changeling from the start, and she made perfect sense to me as what a fairy changeling raised in our world might be like, too.Also, the time spent in the Metropolitan Museum of Art was worth the price of admission (so to speak) by itself.
Book #8: Changeling, by Delia Sherman.This is a story about a human girl raised in "New York Between" by the magical creatures that live there. She is a changeling, replaced with a fairy creature in the "world outside." She is, as most humans are, a curious and bit foolhardy girl and one innocent mistake throws her whole future into disarray. Only a daunting quest in three parts can restore the only life she knows as home.This was a fast, fun, easy read. Full of puns and twisted meanings and the
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