Tithe - Holly Black

Tithe

By Holly Black

  • Release Date: 2008-06-20
  • Genre: Fantasy for Young Adults
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 186 Ratings
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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

  • Incredible!

    5
    By Emmza93
    Such an amazing story; I am hooked. I had only read “The Darkest Part of the Forest”by Holly Black prior to this, and it was one of my favourite reads. It was an adventure I desperately wish had a sequel. Can’t wait to start the next one in this trilogy.

  • Enchanting

    5
    By BunPrince
    Best 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

    4
    By TLHaywood
    It took a bit to get started, but once you started getting to know the characters, you were deeply involved and needed to know more

  • Amazing

    5
    By Mystic.-.warrior
    The book is not that long and is easy to read. The story plot is simply amazing and leaves the reader wanting more!

  • Eh

    3
    By lover or books
    The 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 good

  • Decent Urban Fantasy

    3
    By ferret_bard
    This 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!!!!

    5
    By SnowflakeGirl1220
    I 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

    5
    By AverageAlly
    This is just the book I've been looking for I can not wait to read everything else there is to read!

  • Great!!

    5
    By Zepherea
    I'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!!!

    5
    By Megan Abner
    Love it

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