Amazon.com: Reviews for The Stolen Child: Books: Keith Donohue

By drtamsin (Louisville) - See all my reviews:
"I was disappointed to never learn how the changling first came to be, because after all, there had to be a first one!"
right that's what I want to know.
the natural order - a fairy returns at the expense of another child becoming a fairy. so the first one? could just be a child who ran off.
I ask, what's the point? meaning:
seems sad. all the changelings long to go back to the world as children, but they have to wait a century, and they have to steal a child who will then endure the same wait. and, everybody longs for their own original life.
if at least they enjoyed being fairies -- or if it was a fate that only befell children who wanted to run away --
why does it matter that the child be sad, a daydreamer, etc?
I guess I will not be told a reason. it does not seem in this book that it really does matter.
I'd like a richer telling of the mythology of the changeling...