Tithe

A Modern Faerie Tale

audio cd

Published July 20, 2011 by Brilliance Audio, Brand: Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Lib Ed.

ISBN:
978-1-4558-1324-7
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3 stars (26 reviews)

Young adult fantasy novel about a young girl who discovers she's not human, but a faerie. Trouble follows.

16 editions

reviewed Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale by Holly Black (Modern Tales of Faerie, #1)

Review of 'Tithe' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

Tithe wraps smudged eyeliner, smoke, and cigarette ash around faerie wings, grinning past a bloody sword of oaths, duty, and blood. Faeries may be truthful, but they're never safe.

For a very long time, Tithe was the first book I'd reach for when someone told me they’d like to start reading books with fae. It’s full of the grit, darkness, capricious, and wit which, to me, are the essence of faerie stories. The female MC used to play with faeries when she was younger, but as she's interacting with the Courts for the first time in years she's seeing the cruelty and light which is intertwined within the fae. I love the way it depicts what tropes surrounding the fae could actually be like if they played out in the present day. 

The characterization is great, all the POV characters feel very distinct, and the secondary characters have enough detail …

reviewed Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale by Holly Black (Modern Tales of Faerie, #1)

Review of 'Tithe' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars


Eh

It was okay. I had a lot of trouble with the writing. I found paragraphs had to be reread to make sense. Or maybe I'd lose my train of thought and have to jump back.

I've read better fairie / urban fantasy.

The closer I got to the end, the more I wanted to know how it ended so I could move onto another book. It was good enough to knot bail, but I also had trouble staying focused reading. I kept finding myself skimming paragraphs, reading only a couple words a page to get closer to the end. I want to see where it was going but at 85% it felt more like a chore than pleasure.
If characters got hurt, or bad things happened to them, I didn’t seem to care. They seemed pretty flat. Even the main characters, who you spend a lot of time with, …

reviewed Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale by Holly Black (Modern Tales of Faerie, #1)

Review of 'Tithe' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

This is a very good series, the first set of books I read by Holly black. All the characters are likable and the story is good. This was pretty much my introduction into all these YA books.

The book is quite short too, which was good in this case, no extra nonsense filling up the pages. As soon as I finished this book I went straight out and bought the second and third books.

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