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Loading... Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale (edition 2004)by Holly Black
Work detailsTithe by Holly Black
 Punkfarie | Apr 30, 2013 |  This was a very strange, modern fairy tale. It started with Kaye, her mom and her mom's boyfriend in a bar. Kaye is a young girl, who smokes, drinks, and has dropped out of school to do deliveries for a Chinese restaurant. Kaye and her mom, Ellen, move back to Jersey Shore, in her grand-mother's house. She hooks up with her childhood-friend Janet, and things are just weird. They go to a party, Kaye is upstairs and makes a broken wooden-horse stand up on its' legs, where Janet's boyfriend Kenny sees her. He starts to touch her, until she runs away. When walking home, she finds a hurt fairy, Roiben, near the road, and she helps him get an arrow out and to get help from a kelpie. The whole story was a little confusing to me, and even at the very end, it does not make a whole lot of sense. I guess what it made me think the most is that fairies, and yes, Kaye is also a fairy, are even weirder than I thought before... *My reviews are personal reflections of what I read and take notes of. It is in no way meant to dissuade a person from reading a book from authors who put a lot of work into their stories. I do not get paid for my reviews nor have I been asked to give my opinions concerning these books. This book, like most of the others I've read belongs to my kindle-collection* (  ) Lexxie | Apr 23, 2013 | I seriously shouldn't have bothered finishing this one. I couldn't follow anything that was going on. The characters were weird, and I didn't care what happened to them. (  ) __Lindsey__ | Apr 17, 2013 | I don't give up on very many books but I just couldn't keep going with this one. The author seems to be trying REALLY hard to make the main character as irritating as possible. Ridiculous characters, over the top swearing and drug use, and a plot that appeared to be going nowhere caused me to set this down about 1/3 of the way through. I read a fair amount of YA fiction (I even made it through The Host--and liked it!) but this was clearly written for someone other than me. walterqchocobo | Apr 8, 2013 | I finished this book in a day, rushed out and got the sequel from the library. (  ) shojo_a | Apr 4, 2013 | no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0689867042, Paperback)Sixteen-year-old Kaye Fierch is not human, but she doesn't know it. Sure, she knows she's interacted with faeries since she was little--but she never imagined she was one of them, her blond Asian human appearance only a magically crafted cover-up for her true, green-skinned pixie self. First-time author Holly Black explores Kaye's self-discovery and dual worlds in her riveting, suspenseful novel Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale. The book has its faults: it slips into shock-value mode; the descriptions are often overwritten (sunset on the water looks like the sun slit his wrists in a bathtub); the language is overly, unnecessarily explicit; and the writing often unpolished. Still, the story's pull is undeniable, and readers under its spell will be hard-pressed to put the book down.The novel begins in a bar in Philly, where Kaye's alcoholic rock-singer mother's boyfriend tries to kill her. For their own safety, mother and daughter quickly move back to grandma's on the New Jersey shore where Kaye grew up. This ugly turn of events was all rigged by the Faerie world, as it turns out, a world Black describes in deliciously vivid, if rather overblown, detail. Kaye, a drinking, smoking, foul-mouthed high school dropout in the land of mortals, soon finds herself embroiled--as a human sacrifice, no less--in a battle between Faerieland's Seelie and more malevolent Unseelie courts. The beautiful, mysterious knight Roiben, torn between worlds himself, falls in love with Kaye--the brave, clever changeling--against his better judgment. Throughout the electrifying journey to the horrific underworld of this modern faerie fantasy, teen readers will relate to a hard-luck tough girl who feels alienated, discovers her best qualities in the worst of circumstances, and finally finds a place between worlds where she can feel at home. (Ages 13 and older) --Karin Snelson (retrieved from Amazon Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:56:59 -0500) Sixteen-year-old Kaye, who has been visited by faeries since childhood, discovers that she herself is a magical faerie creature with a special destiny. (summary from another edition) |
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