If you're like me, you probably had been eagerly awaiting the chance to get your mitts on this book for months now. When I read what the book was about (coupled with a pretty awesomely designed cover), I knew I had to read it it & promptly put it on my wish list. When I got the chance to review it for vine, I jumped at the chance & did a little happy dance. Unfortunately this just didn't live up to expectations. 
 There's something wrong in the town of Gentry. Nobody ever talks about it, but everyone knows. That's why people hang iron over their newborns' beds in order to keep them safe from the things that would steal them away & replace them with their own. Mackie is one of those replacements. He can't tolerate any form of iron- even blood. His father's church is off limits unless he wants to blister & burn. Almost everything that is considered normal for everyone else is a hazard for him, which explains why he's been growing steadily weaker. When one of the local babies dies suddenly, the child's sibling immediately seeks Mackie out. After all, he was such a replacement & as such might be able to help her. Mackie soon finds that he's well in over his head & that rescuing the siblings of beautiful teenaged girls is a lot easier said than done. 
 While this book had several good points, I don't know that this book will be able to stand out against the many stronger & better written fairy books out there. I did like that Yovanoff was able to create a decent world & it's the details that really stand out, such as Janice's draughts. I also enjoyed hearing the descriptions of the fairy realms & the inhabitants when Mackie is in the heaps or interacting with them. In those scenes this book really did come to life & was fun to read. 
 Unfortunately there's a lot here that was a bit tiresome to read through. Much of the book focuses around Mackie's attempts to act human, which after a while got sort of old. Those were the parts of the book that moved the slowest & was the least interesting, which is a shame since those parts make up a bigger chunk of the book. I can't help but feel that if those scenes were condensed & more emphasis was put on the whole "got to get back Tate's sibling" or the town's history with fairies, the book would have been greatly improved. The other thing that sort of got in the way of the book is Mackie's infatuation with Tate, which just seemed to come out of nowhere. (As one other reviewer so aptly put it.) There's just not a lot of buildup to the relationship & as such, I couldn't really find myself really getting into it. I also had a little trouble with the whole Morrigan character. She wasn't very well fleshed out at all & as such, I couldn't help but pull my own knowledge of the character into play- knowledge that didn't really fit this "good" character very well. (She's not exactly "good", but she's not really evil either.)The Morrigan has already been used in a number of other fairy themed books as a villain or war/violence themed character, so it's hard to see her in this light & I really wished that Yovanoff had done more to make this character her own. Even a brief sentence like "People have said I'm mostly war-like, but I'm so much more than that" would have been good. Also, for a book that is supposed to be horror, it isn't particularly scary or horror-ish at all. It's more of a fantasy than even a thriller. 
 Overall this isn't a terrible book, but it isn't the "rush out & buy" book that I really wanted it to be. People new to the whole UF genre might like this, but most everyone else will know that they've read better from other authors & won't be able to help but compare it to people such as Melissa Marr & Holly Black. I do feel like the author will get better with time, but for now this book is just going to get lost in a sea of similarly themed books. There's just not enough here to really stand out & I can't help but think that this book needed to stew just a little bit longer. I do recommend this, but really only as a library read. 
 (ARC provided by Vine)