Tithe is about a 16 year old girl named Kaye who is always moving around with her single mother's rock band. She's always changing schools [if she even goes to school] and always having to pick up the pieces of her drunken mother until something happens forcing them back to her childhood home. Kaye and her mother have to go live in her grandmothers house where Kaye grew up until they can get back on their feet...it turns out to be better then Kaye ever thought!
Kaye has always been able to see these "imaginary" flying faeries she soon learns are real, and Kaye is soon thrown in the middle of a faerie battle, while trying to keep her sanity and "cool points" with her childhood friends.
Tithe is a short book, but a good read. It is an easy read, but a great story! Its def a great book to relax on the weekend with! I plan on looking more into the world of Holly Black and her amazing Stories!
I think my next books I will be looking into will be Ironside & Valiant, two more Faerie Tales by our Holly Black!
As always,
From Reader To Reader <3
Your owl reader-Heather Haynes
August 13, 2011 11:46AM
This was the second Holly Black book I read. I enjoyed White Cat a lot and so I went back to read her debut novel. And liked it even more.
ReplyDeleteThe similarities are striking. Both are short YA books, with nice prose and likable main characters thrown into `weird' paranormal situations. Both have the action so condensed as to occasionally be confusing. Both wrap themselves up in the last quarter in a way that compromises the believability of the secondary characters. Both have unhappy but not completely tragic endings. While White Cat's premise is perhaps a tad more original, I found Tithe`s creepy fairy flavor more to my taste. Not that I didn't like the first, but I really liked certain things about the second.
Tithe is written in third person past, with the protagonist Kaye dominating the POV. Mysteriously, approximately 5-10% is from the point of view of her friend Corny, and about 2% from the romantic interest. These outside POVs felt wrong, and at least in the Kindle version, no scene or chapter breaks announced the transitions. Every time one happened I was confused for a paragraph or two and knocked out of the story. Still, said story was more than good enough to overcome this minor technical glitch.