The Stolen Child

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.

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.

Ever read a book which just stays with you and you think about from time to time? This is that sort of book for me. I read this book when it first came out, and was fascinated by the premise. A young boy, Henry Day, runs away from home and is stolen by changelings. The changelings ( i.e. fairies/hob......more

I don’t disguise that I’m a big geek, especially when science fiction is concerned. My Star Wars and Lord of the Rings (and Spiderman and X-Men and Batman and . . .) movie obsessions attest to my geekiness. So it is no surprise to anyone that I spent two or three years as a teenager reading only fan......more

If you must give me a name, call me hobgoblin. Or better yet, I am a changeling- a word that describes within its own name what we are bound and intended to do. We kidnap a human child and replace him or her with one of our own." pg 7, ebook. The Stolen Child is the story of a changeling and the boy......more

I am a big fan of literature that retell or reconfigure old myths and fairy tales especially if the author can bring it into a modern setting and so I really liked the concept of The Stolen Child, a modern adaptation of the changling myth in which the fairies steal away a human child and replace it......more

The Stolen Child, which takes its name and inspiration from the Yeats poem, tells the story of two characters: Aniday is a human child who is stolen by changelings and lives in their world, and Henry Day is the changeling who takes his place and grows up in the real world. Both spend the next few de......more