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Do you believe in faeries? Not the soft, gentle kind, but the sinister, feral kind - the ones that wreak havoc on everything in their path...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 them back to her childhood home. To the place where she used to see Faeries. They're still there. But Kaye's not a child anymore. This time she's dragged into the thick of their dangerous, frightening world. A realm where black horses dwell beneath the sea, desperate to drown you...where the sinister Thistlewitch divines dark futures...and where beautiful faerie knights are driven to perform acts of brutal depravity for the love of their uncaring queens. Once there, Kaye finds herself an unwilling pawn in an ancient power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms - a struggle that could end in her death...
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Holly Black spent her early years in a decaying Victorian mansion where her mother fed her a steady diet of ghost stories and faerie tales. An avid collector of rare folklore volumes, spooky dolls, and crazy hats, she lives in West Long Branch, New Jersey, with her husband, Theo. Together with illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi, she is the creator of the bestselling Spiderwick Chronicles series of children's books. For more information, visit www.blackholly.com.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Watch out Laurel K Hamilton, there's a new faerie on the block. Readers familiar with the tales of Meredith Gentry will love this new offering from Holly Black. I read this book today in its entirety, it was that good. Kaye Fierch is a teenaged girl who discovers that she is a changeling; a pixie switched with a human baby at birth, and emired in a plot to control the faerie court. Black deals skillfully with the heroine's angst at being brought up a human and a teenager at that and then dicovering that she is an immortal being with magical powers. Kaye never fails to evoke the reader's sympathy, she is a fully fleshed out character about whom you can really care and the author successfully portrays the depravity of the Unseelie Court without resorting to the colourful prose of Ms Hamilton which I sometimes find a little too near to the mark for the genre. I can't wait for the next one Ms Black.
17 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I think the most wonderful thing about this book is the picture that Holly Black paints in your mind's eye. It's so easy to see the faries and their queens, their courts and the magic that Kaye comes into contact with, but it is also easy to see the rotting seaside town, the old house of Kaye's grandmother, and everything about the teenagers that make up this novel. The teens are perfectly portrayed; their speech, their mannerisms, their dress sense, references to sex and eating disorders, and girly fall-outs over guys. There are raves and parties, not least at the beginning with Kaye's rockstar mother. And then, through all the beauty and realism of the decaying world around Kaye, we are dragged into the world of the faries...but, again, for all it's beauty, it's just another grim world.
It's a fantastic read that works so well, and is a marvellous read.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I discovered this book when I was a freshman in high school. I checked it out at the same time as I checked out Francesca Lia Block's I Was A Teenage Fairy, also a book and author I would recommend highly.
Not only did I love the seamless flow of the story and the author's easy diction, I adored the similes that run rampant in this book. My personal favorite is when Kaye says, at sunset, that the sun looks like it slit its wrists and is bleeding orange all over the ocean. I mean, wow. A writer myself, I have a healthy respect for good description.
Though Black uses the same simile format throughout the novel, the images she draws have stuck with me. As a senior, after checking out the book numerous times over the years, I finally bought it and reread it (again), not putting it down until it was complete... at 4 o'clock in the morning. :-P
I have long been a fan of urban fantasy, but this is the best example I have come across. It has drugs, rock and roll, a pleasantly evil Faerie Queen, and a tall, handsome, mysterious stranger (Roiben of the White Hair... just read the book, you'll understand and be as jealous of Kaye as I am)... all in all, an amazing read that will grab you when you're not expecting it and leave you hungry for more at the end. (Don't worry, a sequal comes out this summer and I can't wait!)
I would highly recommend this novel to anyone who likes quality writing and an interesting twist on an antient tradition amongst the fey. The only way to truly appreciate the magic and beauty of this amazing book is to read it for yourself, so go to a library and check it out, you silly, silly mortals!
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
does what it says on the tin
Tithe does what it says on the tin, a modern fairytale for young adults. It is, however, quite deliciously dark. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Emma Thompson
Full of obscenities
I liked this book and its plot, but the writing didn't impress me at all. I thought that the plot was good and interesting. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Stepping Out of the Page
They have brought back the Tithe
Stories about a girl who finds out she's part/all faerie and becomes enmeshed in that world are a dime a dozen now. Read more
Published 9 months ago by E. A Solinas
love it!
love this series,hope there are going to be more,well written,and easy to read,flew through it in one day! Read more
Published 13 months ago by Ms. R. A. Hamill
Was blown away.
For a few years now I have been meaning to go back and read some of Holly Black's earlier works. Both her Spiderwick books and her Modern Faerie Tales were on my TBR (To Be Read)... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Steven R. McEvoy
Dark and magical
Late comer to Holly Black but worth the wait. This book really sucked me in. I loved the world created and the characters were vivid.
Published on 19 April 2010 by C. Tyas
One of my all time favourites!!
i love this book and have read it so many times! if you're a teenager and love books about fairies then you should definatly read this book it made me cry and laugh like all good... Read more
Published on 9 April 2010 by narnarama
Faeries like the ancestors used to fear....
Easily on a par with Emma Bull's 'War for the Oaks'War for the Oaks and Terri Windling's 'The WoodWife' The Wood Wifewritten for teenagers, but complex and dark enough to be... Read more
Published on 16 Feb 2010 by Broch Gwrthryfelwr
Fantastic
This is a really unusual story. It's witty and gritty in places and covers important teen issues, including homosexuality. Read more
Published on 28 July 2009 by J. N. Scarlett
Really good book, worth a read
Tithe is a proper grimms style faerie story.
I really liked the plot and the descriptiveness, it allowed you to really picture what was going on without becoming... Read more
I really liked the plot and the descriptiveness, it allowed you to really picture what was going on without becoming... Read more
Published on 3 May 2009 by Baileys
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