Keith Donohue

a novel

The stolen child

Emily Harris

This was a bit of a tough read for me to get into. I found the initial introduction to be very rushed, and was slightly confused about the creatures for several chapters. The narration of the changeling Henry Day seemed far more interesting than the narration of the kidnapped Henry 'Aniday'... not too sure why.. but I felt so uninterested in Aniday's life and his group of hobgoblins. 

I read about halfway through and became more interested once the attempted kidnapping of Oscar Love began... and lives between the two Henrys started to intertwine.

Amanda Valentin

Initially I did not like this book because I did not like the way the hobgoblins were portrayed. However, as Henry Day's story progressed I liked it a bit more. My favorite quote of the book: "My life with the faeries is more real to me than my life as Henry Day. And I wrote it down to show that we are more than a myth, a tale for children, a nightmare or daydream. Just as we need their stories to exist, so do the humans need us to give shape to their lives."(p.292) This quote in itself brought this book up a star in my opinion.

Adine

Izabela Borges

Jessica Ford

Rikki Doppler

Seven-year-old Henry Day is kidnapped by fairy changelings living in the dark forest near his home - ageless beings whose secret community is threatened by encroaching modern life. They give Henry a new name, Aniday, and the gift of agelessness - now and forever, he will be seven years old. The group has left another child in Henry's place. This changeling boy, who has morphed himself into Henry's duplicate, must adjust to a new way of life and hide his true identity from the Day family. But he can't hide his extraordinary talent for the piano, and his near-perfect performances prompt his father to suspect that he is an impostor. As he grows older the new Henry Day becomes haunted by vague but persistent memories of life in another time and place. Both Henry and Aniday search obsessively for who they were before they changed places in the world.

The stolen child a novel

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