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Title: Tithe : A Modern Faeire Tale by Holly Black ISBN: 0-689-84924-9 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (42 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: 3 1/2 stars really.
Comment: I really enjoyed this dark faerie tale but I can see why people don't. I kinda thought that it deserved more than 3 and a half stars but when I read it there was definity something I couldn't put my finger on, that really really irritated me.
It's about a 16 year old faeire who doesn't know she's a faerie (Kaye) who, through no fault of her own, gets caught between a faerie war. It's got a bit of love but not much gushy stuff, (which I think is good!)
A review I just read said that it thought there was too much desription in it (the sun looking like he slit his wirsts in the bathtub). Personally i liked the description, and I think when your in faerie land and stuff, you need it because otherwise everyone would have completly different ideas of what Holly Black's faerie land looked like, other than just variations. Sometimes I did switch off a bit though.
I think this story is very dark and you should be prepared for that. If your someone who likes happy fairy tale endings I wouldn't recomend this book to you. Even I found it a bit depressing and I tend to have quite a gloomy outlook on the world anyway.
I'd say this was a book for teenagers, who want to see a view of faeries which shows them as having pointy teeth, sharp claws and pretty evil intentions.
It's great, you should read it!
Rating: 5
Summary: An Enchanting Tale of the Fae
Comment: There aren't too many fiction books out there about faeries, so I was really happy when Tithe came out. I was spinning fresh off of A Caress of Twilight by Laurell K Hamilton when I read this book. And let me say, this book is GREAT!
Kaye is a teen who travels around with her mom from rock band to rock band, kind of acting the adult (She doesn't go to school and works at a Chinese place to support her and her mom). When her mom's boyfriend tries to kill her in Philadelphia, they're forced to go and live with Kaye's grandmother in New Jersey.
We find out that when Kaye was a child, kids teased her because she had "imaginary" friends. It turns out they're not imaginary, and that these friends are faeries!!! When Kaye rescues a Seelie Knight, Roiben, who is serving in the Unseelie Court, she falls in love. Although her faerie friends Spike and Lutie-loo warn her to stay away from him, Kaye is thrown into a series of encounters with him that leave her yearning for more.
Kaye later finds out from Spike, Lutie-loo, and the Thistlewitch that she's a changeling, and is really a Pixie. She and her friend Corny visit the Unseelie Court, and start to find themselves in trouble. The Unseelie Court later tries to sacrifice Kaye, but Roiben and Lutie-loo come to the rescue.
Of course, the book ends with lots of kisses between Kaye and Roiben *sigh, he's so cute!* I really hope there's a sequel to this. Even though Tithe is set in contemporary New Jersey, it has so much fantasical stuff as to make it its own world. And the romance between Kaye and Roiben is so masterfully written, it's not like the typical teen romance [stuff] you're used to getting.
Tithe is the perfect blend of love, faerie, and horror *that Unseelie Knight that Corny hooks up with freaks me out, with all those thorns! LoL* and will encapture the hearts of fantasy fans everywhere.
Rating: 5
Summary: Tithe : A Modern Faerie Tale
Comment: This is one of my favorite books ever! The teens aren't tamed little children and that is what makes it modern. The faeries are wild and cool. I just love this book and can't get enough of it! It is definitely worth the buy.
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Title: The Field Guide (The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 1) by Holly Black, Tony DiTerlizzi ISBN: 0689859368 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Lucinda's Secret (The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 3) by Tony DiTerlizzi, Holly Black ISBN: 0689859384 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Faerie Wars by Herbie Brennan ISBN: 1582348103 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Pub. Date: 02 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Inkheart by Cornelia Funke, Anthea Bell ISBN: 0439531640 Publisher: Chicken House Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot: Being the Correspondence of Two Young Ladies of Quality Regarding Various Magical Scandals in London and the Country by Caroline Stevermer, Patricia C. Wrede ISBN: 0152046151 Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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