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Tithe

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A Modern Faerie Tale

by Holly Black
Paperback
Age range: + years old Publication Date: 01/04/2004
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In the realm of very scary faeries, no one is safe.

Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she travels from city to city with her mother's rock band until an ominous attack forces the sixteen-year-old back to her childhood home. There, amid the industrial, blue-collar New Jersey backdrop, Kaye soon finds herself an unwilling pawn in an ancient power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms--a struggle that could very well mean her death.

Holly Black's enormously powerful voice weaves teen angst, riveting romance, and capriciously diabolical faerie folk into an enthralling, engaging, altogether original reading experience.
ISBN:
9780689867040
9780689867040
Category:
Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage)
Age range:
+ years old
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-04-2004
Language:
English
Publisher:
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
177.8x127x25.4mm
Weight:
0.22kg
Holly Black

Holly Black is the author of bestselling contemporary fantasy books for kids and teens. Some of her titles include The Spiderwick Chronicles (with Tony DiTerlizzi), The Modern Faerie Tale series, the Curse Workers series, Doll Bones, and The Coldest Girl in Coldtown.

She has been a finalist for the Mythopoeic Award and for an Eisner Award, and the recipient of both an Andre Norton Award and a Newbery Honor. Her new books are The Darkest Part of the Forest, a return to faerie fiction, and The Iron Trial, the first book in a middle grade fantasy series, Magisterium, co-authored by Cassandra Clare. Holly currently lives in New England with her husband and son in a house with a secret door.

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Brilliant!!! One of the greatest books I have ever read in my life! okay perhaps not...but certainly a favourite >_<



Kaye is a eurasian girl who is flung into a world of faeries...sounds nice right, but these faeries aren't nice. They're really not nice.



Holy Black manages to combine all the elements of urban modernity that exists in any city and the world of faeries - crushing most of the pure Romanticism that it is often associated with. Nonetheless, the story comes out as believable (as believable as it can be while stating the existence of faeries), or at the very least realistic. With a mix of action, drama, and romance - the dark nature of the story may not be for everyone but it is sure to please any teen reader. 10/10 ^_^

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