Kaye becomes embroiled in the ongoing feud between the Seelie and the Unseelie court. Freaked out by her own actions Kaye runs off and finds herself coming face-to-face with Roiben, a wounded faerie knight. Here Kaye reconnects with her childhood BFF Janet and, not fully aware of what she’s doing, ends up casting a spell on her boyfriend. After spending the last years on the road, sixteen-year-old Kaye and her mum, who is in a punk-rock band, return to her grandmother’s home in New Jersey. Black’s faeries are beautiful, cunning, and cruel, not to be messed with, and her lead character, Kaye, is delightfully gritty. It has this late 90s/early 2000s grunge aesthetic that works really well with the faerie world Black has created. Black has definitely honed her writing skills since writing this, and if we compare Tithe to her Folk of the Air trilogy, well it does seem a bit less ‘sophisticated’…but maybe that’s the reason why I like it so much. While I now recognize that its plot, language, and secondary characters could have been more complex, I still find that it makes for an engrossing read. I first read Tithe back in 2007 when I was 11 and it completely blew my mind. While Black’s storytelling has certainly come a long way since her Modern Faerie Tales days, I have a soft spot for this series. Holly Black writes the best modern faeries tales.įirst published in 2002 Tithe is Holly Black’s debut novel.
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