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Summary: Excellent Book!!! ;)
Review: What an excellent book! I've read it twice now... :) The story is rich and full of imagery. The romantic side slammed to the dark side of the fae is what keeps you hooked. It makes you want to go out by a hill and search for faerie lights. Holly Black's books are enchanting! I wrote to her and she wrote back writing such a sweet reply. She took her time to listen! In a few years I expect a sequel to this fascinating book. Pick it up!
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Summary: Pixie dust
Review: What originaly atracted me to this book was the gorgeous Greg Spalenka arwork on the cover. It captures perfectly the strangeness and vivid colours of the story, as well as the inherent darkness. The story centers on Kaye, a sixteen-year-old shoplifter and college drop-out, who has to move back to her childhood home when her drunken mothers boyfriend blows a fuse. Its seems like just another bad turn in a life thats going nowhere, but as Kaye runs into one strange incident after another, it becomes aparent that everything has in fact been staged. . . and that Kaye might not be entirely commonplace. Dont be scared by the YA-classification. This one is great for anyone who likes good dark fantasy. The imagery is superb, the description of the Faery courts beyond belief. Beautiful and dark, the vividness and relaity of the feast under the hill a precious treat. If you're up to a new look at faeries, than go ahead. But dont tell anyone your name.
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Summary: Can't Put It Down!
Review: I really, really recomend this book for anyone who, like me, enjoys a good and interesting read. The characters in "Tithe" are some of the most fun and spunky I have encounterd yet with so many twists and turns that are enough to keep you reading and asking for more! And for those of you who think that this is just another one of those 'happy-go-lucky' farie books out there you have another thing coming to you. They are some of the most imaginative and, in some cases, brutal creatures you can't find in some of the fantisies you come across today. I truly recomend this for anyone who is looking for a book with attitude, beauty, danger, love, and...well...pick it up and take a look for your self!
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Summary: Not just for teens
Review: Tithe is an excellent modern tale of traditonal faeries, particularly those of the Unseelie Court. While it is marketed as a young adult novel, it is one of those gems that can appeal across a great age range (I haven't been a teen in quite some time). The characters are wonderfully realistic, though be warned, they aren't all pure and nice, for in the real world who is? Kaye, the main character, faces all the usual difficult decisions of a 16-year-old, plus a number unique to her situation. She doesn't always make the right choices, but her mistakes are believable rather than mere stupidity for the sake of moving the story forward. Bravo! The plot will keep you guessing. Who is good? Who is evil? Who hasn't chosen a side? Who doesn't have a choice.
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Summary: Tithe
Review: This book is one of the hard cover mericals that your mother or father get you from the book store. You see it and instantly think your going to hate it. But this book proved me wrong in a second! This is a great book for any teen to read (like myself). Its so captivating that only one question is on my mind: will there be another installment of the Tithe book?
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Summary: Tithe: A Modern Faeire Tale
Review: Tithe was a marvoulous book. It kept me on my toes throughout the entire story. I never knew quite what was going to happen, it had twists in it that just made it exciting. I couldn't put it down until it was done, and even then i wanted to continue reading. I kept wishing more words and pages would suddenly appear for me continue reading. It's full of action and romance, death and love. It was amazing
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Summary: Faries are not always good.....
Review: Tithe is one of the best books i've ever read.It has a great plot and characters aswell.In the story Kaye who is just a regular girl and had farie friends when she was young finds somthing out about herself that changes her forever.Tithe is a different kind of farie tale and I think anyone who reads it will love it.....;)
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Summary: Fun Fantasy, My Favorite!
Review: I love the opening paragraph. Even the first sentence. "Kay took another drag on her cigarette and dropped it into her mother's beer bottle." Who could put this down? You won't want to. Kaye sees faerie folk, Kaye feels different! Kaye can make a broken carousel horse come to life! Can make a boy become obsessed with her! Can save the life of a handsome knight in the woods! Don't even think about putting this book down! You'll want to see how one tough teen becomes her true (green) pixie self and helps save the world of the faerie from colliding with the human world. (And I'm pretty sure there'll have to be a book two, because that handsome knight really likes her!)
If not a part two, then at least more fun fantasy from Molly Black!
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Summary: A 4 1/2 star read not to be missed for dark fantasy fans
Review: Tithe's inner blurb states that it is a young adult fantasy tale written by a brand new author with an exciting and imaginative voice and, for a change, the raves are true! If you're into darker edged fantasy, where the faeries are more likely to wound tender flesh than sprinkle one with faery dust, where sex, violence and various debaucheries are all part of a typical day in the faery kingdom, then do yourself a favor and buy a copy of Tithe. It's the perfect book to chase away the mid-winter blahs. Big thanks to Preeti, my reader friend ... for bringing this deliciously dark book to my attention. Kaye is a tough, resourceful, street smart sixteen year old. As the daughter of a flighty, small-time rock singer who rarely stays in one place for more than six months at a time Kaye's life has been filled with chaos. When her mother is attacked after a performance she decides to temporarily move them back into her mother's home. As a child, Kaye loved living in her grandmother's old house and believed she had faery friends. Kaye has always been able to see things other cannot but it's not until she returns to her grandmother's home that she begins to discover exactly how different she is. In the woods Kaye meets an injured young man with pewter hair and pointy ears named Roiben who requests her help, reluctantly promises her payment and then quickly disappears. Though Kaye refuses to be anything like her worthless mother and will never pine away after a man she can't seem to get thoughts of Roiben out of her head. Soon after the weird encounter with Roiben, Kaye discovers her imaginary world is not quite so imaginary after all. After locating two of her old faery friends she discovers that she is fated to play an important (and possibly deadly) role in helping her friends remain free from the warring faery kingdoms (the Seelie and the Unseelie) who want to enslave them. Kaye's somewhat unstable world becomes even more-so when she enters into a fantasy world filled with magic and dark beauty and the irresistible but terribly confusing dark knight named Roiben who may or may have not killed one of her friends. Tithe is a real page-turner. I especially enjoyed its bleak, but never overwhelmingly depressing, look at life from a jaded sixteen year old point of view. Even before Kaye discovers the world of faery her world isn't that of your typical teenager. Because of her upbringing and lack of parental support she's got an edge about her that makes her refreshingly interesting. She smokes, talks tough, and holds her own against the flakey, ineffective adults and self-absorbed teens that inhabit her world. Though she's self-reliant and insightful she's still a teenager prone to emotion, moments of selfishness and wicked thoughts of revenge. Her faults, as well as her strengths, are the reason I enjoyed her character so much. Her conflicted feelings for Roiben -- is he tortured hero or cold-hearted fiend? -- are also another fascinating aspect of the story. Their emerging romance manages to be sensual, touching and anything but the same-old, same-old. If you're tired of angelic, nauseatingly good heroes and heroines don't worry because you won't find any here! Though I enjoyed this book thoroughly I did spot a few minor problems (sorry, I can't shut off the nitpicker inside me). With the exception of Kaye, nearly all of the secondary characters aren't given enough space to become very well defined. This is one case where I think a longer book may have made for a near perfect book (and I almost never say such things). Kaye's troubled friend Corny and especially Roiben would've benefited from more space to become fully fleshed out characters. I guess we can hold out hope for a prequel all about Roiben. There is also some troublesome dialogue here and there that needed a little tweaking. At times I felt like I'd walked in on the middle of a conversation and missed a sentence or two somewhere along the way. Other times I felt like the characters must be reading each others minds because their dialogue made little sense to me. Despite this the story moves very quickly, is imaginative, entertaining and I wish it hadn't had to end quite so soon. I cannot wait to see what author Holly Black comes up with next. With its adult language, sexuality, violence and alcohol consumption "Tithe" reads more like an adult novel featuring young protagonists and because of this I'd recommend it for the "older" young adult ... 4 ½ stars
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Summary: Clap for these faeries and they might bite you
Review: In this dark faerie tale, Kaye Fierch, a teenager who has always believed in faeries, discovers that she herself is one, and that she is the sacrifice chosen for the tithe, a blood ceremony made every seven years to bind the solitary fey to the Unseelie Court. Kaye learns to control her glamour, gets help from her fey and human friends, encounters some nasty beasties, and finds romance with a dark knight of the Unseelie Court. If you like Laurell K. Hamilton's Merry Gentry series, Tam Lin tales, or any story where the teenagers are fierce and the faeries are fiercer, pick up this book.
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