The Child Thief

by Gerald Brom · 2009

 __ # The Child Thief __ ### [Brom __](https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/172487.Brom) [ 4.07 23,097 ratings3,233 reviews ](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6308379-the-child-thief#CommunityReviews) Want to Read __ Kindle Unlimited $0.00 __ Rate this book Peter is quick, daring, and full of mischief—and like all boys, he loves to play, though his games often end in blood. His eyes are sparkling gold, and when he graces you with his smile you are his friend for life, but his promised land is _not_ Neverland. Fourteen-year-old Nick would have been murdered by the drug dealers preying on his family had Peter not saved him. Now the irresistibly charismatic wild boy wants Nick to follow him to a secret place of great adventure, where magic is alive and you never grow old. Even though he is wary of Peter's crazy talk of faeries and monsters, Nick agrees. After all, New York City is no longer safe for him, and what more could he possibly lose? There is _always_ more to lose. Accompanying Peter to a gray and ravished island that was once a lush, enchanted paradise, Nick finds himself unwittingly recruited for a war that has raged for centuries—one where he must learn to fight or die among the "Devils," Peter's savage tribe of lost and stolen children. There, Peter's dark past is revealed: left to wolves as an infant, despised and hunted, Peter moves restlessly between the worlds of faerie and man. The Child Thief is a leader of bloodthirsty children, a brave friend, and a creature driven to do whatever he must to stop the "Flesh-eaters" and save the last, wild magic in this dying land. Genres[Fantasy](https://www.goodreads.com/genres/fantasy)[Horror](https://www.goodreads.com/genres/horror)[Retellings](https://www.goodreads.com/genres/retellings)[Fiction](https://www.goodreads.com/genres/fiction)[Young Adult](https://www.goodreads.com/genres/young-adult)[Fairy Tales](https://www.goodreads.com/genres/fairy-tales)[Adult](https://www.goodreads.com/genres/adult) ...more 483 pages, Hardcover First published August 25, 2009 Book details & editions __ * * *    1858 people are currently reading    51259 people want to read * * * ### About the author [](https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/172487.Brom) #### [Brom __](https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/172487.Brom) 59 books7,139 followers Follow Follow Born in the deep dark south in the mid-sixties. Brom, an army brat, spent his entire youth on the move and unabashedly blames living in such places as Japan, Hawaii, Germany, and Alabama for all his afflictions. From his earliest memories Brom, has been