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Summary: 3 1/2 stars really.
Review: 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!
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Summary: Blood stained broken glass
Review: A modern faerie tale indeed. Welcome to "Tithe" written by young Fantasy writer Holly Black (the Spiderwick Chronicles)a book containing Beautiful and angst ridden knights, a fiesty heroine, blood, broken Glass, death, sacrafice and some very evil faeries. Tithe follows the story of Kaye, an "asian blond" who, after she returns to her childhood home becomes back in contact with the "imaginary" faerie's she befriended as a child. Through these faerie's Kaye gets pulled into the dangerous world of the seelie court where she is forced to participate in the Tithe, a sacrafice held every seven years. Through this Kaye discovers she herself is a not a human, but a green skinned pixie. Black weaves teen ansgt, dangerous love and thrilling adventures with rousing imagery and a thoroughly riviting writing style that keaps you turning the pages way into to night. A young adult urban fantasy that will capture the imagination and spirit of adults and teens alike.
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Summary: Great book!
Review: Wow, what an awesome book! I just finished it and believe me... I couldn't put it down. When I first started reading it I thought it was weird and I wasn't that into it, but then by the second chapter I was hooked. Its a good book if you don't mind the rough language and stuff... Awesome book! Highly recommend it!
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Summary: Riveting!
Review: This book was an impulse buy and now I'm passing it around to all my fantasy-book loving friends. I couldn't put it down. Despite what previous reviewers have said, this book nails my teenage experiences and I haven't been 15 for 15 years. Sorry, moms, but bad parenting, sex, profanity, drug use and especially nihilism were endemic and this book has them all. You will have to use your judgement as far as when to give it to your kids. I wouldn't. I think it's important that parents give their kids the books whose outlook they approve of, and just in principle, I doubt this is one of those. I'd let them find it on their own. Books are more fun that way - think of all those years I put off reading Tolkien because my mom liked it! Depending on your kid, age 13 might be young, it might be perfect. It's definitely pretty good for age 30. My only real complaint is that it was over too soon. What happened next?
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Summary: An Enchanting Tale of the Fae
Review: 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.
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Summary: A tale of faeries.
Review: Kaye, a modern girl whose life is not even close to perfect, moves back to her grandma's house in New Jersey and re-encounters her "imaginary" friends of her childhood. Except they aren't imaginary, and her whole life gets turned upside down when she meets Roiben, an Seelie knight in the Unseelie court. After that, many strange happens and she finds out something about herself that she wouldn't have believed. Combine all of this with a kidnapping and you've got a great novel, full of everything great novels depend on. I was intrigued by this story and read all of it in one day. I couldn't put it down. I just hope that Holly Black writes a sequel or follow up to this story, because the ending ended but there was still so much more that could happen. Fantastic read. I would recommend this to anyone interested in fantasy and who likes many twists and turns during their story. Wonderful. Okie
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Summary: Painfully Unoriginal
Review: There are two problems that I have with this book. Number one: Black seems to want to try and use the ice-berg theory, and show only what her characters are doing, while giving you a brief sketch of their history. She does unfailingly bad at this, and throws in a few of the characters thoughts in at random, as if to justify their actions. Also, this is partly a love story, and her characters are NOT deep enough to have made me care one way or another whether or not they ended up together. Also, her writting voice is almost ridiculous in its awkward way of throwing out random descriptions and analogies. If she had written about anything less interesting, there is no way she could have held my attention. The only positive thing about her style is that it is consistant. And, for Number Two, this story is the most completely unoriginal that I have ever read. For instance, War of the Oaks, by Emma Bull, is about a girl who discovers the faerie world of the Seelie and Unseelie court and must help in some skirmish or another between the two. Such is the same in several other books that I have read; Laurell K. Hamilton's Gentry series are even on a parallel, though not as much. This book left me VERY disappointed. The author provoked none of the feelings I thought she would, and what's worse, she made Kaye a drinking, hormonal, smoking, highschool drop-out without any visible morals whatsoever, and yet, with all of this, she somehow has an unfailingly good heart? How implausible is that?! She's made so many stupid decisions, its almost unbelievable to read about her doing anything sensible. It's possible, I suppose, just not in the way Kaye is presented. A summary of the book, if you will: Kaye is the daughter of a singer mother, whose latest gig in a bar went stale and left them with no money and no more band. When the pair returns to Kaye's grandmother's house, Kaye finds out that she is a faerie changeling (she was switched at birth), and that her faerie friends from childhood want her to help in a small rebellion against the seventh-yearly tithe, which normally bind the creatures once more to the will of the Unseelie court. -(...)
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Summary: This book sucks
Review: Anyone looking to read this book should reconsider. It's a dry, overly detailed piece of fiction that sounds like almost any other work of faerie fiction--and when you take that into consideration, the others are MUCH more worth your time. Simply, this novel is trash about a stupid girl who gets tricked into helping the wrong people and wants to sleep with a "knight"-type faerie.
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Summary: Review for Tithe
Review: The book Tithe is a great but also complex book. It can be quite hard to understand at times but in the end you can pretty much piece it together. It is a story that makes you wonder, "What's going to happen next?" This fantasy story also has some romance and action. It's two main character's names are "Kaye" and "Roiben" and together they go through great adventure and threat.
The description in this book makes you feel as though you are actually in the book, looking at the characters and the environment. It is about two courts of fantasy creatures (the Seelie and the Unseelie courts). The Unseelie court is the controlling court, and to remain in control they have to "tithe," or sacrifice, a willing mortal. It is interesting how the author came up with this idea for the book. Once I picked up this book, I could barely put it down. This is a great book if you enjoy a great quantity of fantasy and fiction creatures and places.
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Summary: a captivating urban faerie tale
Review: Faeries, lest anyone be confused, are more than just tiny, sparkly creatures that live in meadows halfway around the world. They come in all shapes, sizes and colors, and are found amid railroad tracks and gravestones in New Jersey --- the land of French fries with gravy, abandoned boardwalks and petrochemical refineries. Here, they plan the Tithe, the sacrifice of a "beautiful, talented mortal" they must make once every seven years in order to keep the world more or less in order. Kaye Fierch has come back to her home in New Jersey after years of traveling around the country with her rock musician mother. For years she has known that faeries, like her childhood friends Spike and Lutie, are real, though no one else believes her. When Kaye learns that there's a little more to her relations with faeries than just a willingness to believe, she finds herself at the center of a faerie power struggle. All the elements of a proper faerie tale are here, from the battle between good and evil to the knight in shining trench coat. Blended with an urban setting the reader can smell, hear and taste, they form a sexy, scary story. This is fantasy for readers who hate the fantasy worlds of wizards and dragons, and romance for those who don't want their romance sappy and covered in flowers and chocolate. Though some of the descriptions are overwrought, TITHE is still a captivating, fast-paced tale of self-discovery with as much charm as the faeries themselves. (...)
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