Tithe
By Holly Black
- Release Date: 2008-06-20
- Genre: Fantasy for Young Adults
Description
In the realm of very scary faeries, no one is safe.
Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she travels from city to city with her mother's rock band until an ominous attack forces the sixteen-year-old back to her childhood home. There, amid the industrial, blue-collar New Jersey backdrop, Kaye soon finds herself an unwilling pawn in an ancient power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms—a struggle that could very well mean her death.
Holly Black's enormously powerful voice weaves teen angst, riveting romance, and capriciously diabolical faerie folk into an enthralling, engaging, altogether original reading experience.
Reviews
Enchanting
5By BunPrinceBest book series I’ve ever read in my entire life. It’s dark and real and beautiful and melancholy and it just makes me feel a way, you know? It’s so hard to describe but I love EVERYTHING about it.Tithe - slow start, but picked up and flew
4By TLHaywoodIt took a bit to get started, but once you started getting to know the characters, you were deeply involved and needed to know moreAmazing
5By Mystic.-.warriorThe book is not that long and is easy to read. The story plot is simply amazing and leaves the reader wanting more!Eh
3By lover or booksThe book is boring and slow. The characters are unlikable an hard to relate to. Am honestly not a big fan and regret wasting my money on it. From what I’ve seen all of her books are slow the first 400 pages? And then it’s where it starts to get interesting. Which is not goodDecent Urban Fantasy
3By ferret_bardThis review was first published on Kurt's Frontier. Synopsis: Kaye is a sixteen-year-old vagabond. Forced to live a nomadic life with her mother’s rock band, she grows into a stereotypical rebellious teen. When they are attacked on the road, they are forced back to Kaye’s grandmother’s New Jersey town. Amid the blue-collar backdrop, Kaye’s life is turned upside down when she saves a Faerie Knight from death. Kaye finds that she is not who she thinks she is. Worse, she finds herself becoming a pawn in an ancient power struggle between the Unseelie Court, the Seelie Court, and unaffiliated Faeries. Each faction has their own agenda. Kaye’s life hangs in the balance. Review: A common theme in some of the other reviews on Goodreads is that people either love or hate this story. On the plus side, I am always intrigued by modern renditions of the tale of Tam Lin. The elements of the old Childe ballad were there. The characters seemed real, and I found them intriguing. In the minus column, Holly Black tried to make Kaye and her human friends gritty. The effort was unbalanced and often seemed over the top. The rebellious teenager was overdone. While the characters seemed real, I still had a hard time finding them sympathetic until I was almost halfway through the story. All in all, it was decent urban fantasy, well worth a read.I love it!!!!
5By SnowflakeGirl1220I love this book so much. I've read it so many times and I love the parts with Corny and Nephamael being together!! Great Book!!!Yes! :D
5By AverageAllyThis is just the book I've been looking for I can not wait to read everything else there is to read!Great!!
5By brittany minearI've read this book twice now and even went and bought the 2nd and 3rd books they are great I'm not much of a reader, a story has to get me interested in the first few pages or I tend not to finish the book. I found that these pull you in and you just want them to go on on. I was very sad when the books ended wish there were more to read. :)Love it!!!!!!!!! The second one is just as good!!!
5By Megan AbnerLove it