Katherine's review
Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale by Holly Black
Kaye is a sixteen-year-old “Asian blond” girl with an alcoholic rock-star-wannabe mother. After her drug-addled stepfather comes after her with a knife, Kaye moves in with her grandmother on the Jersey shore. Once back where she grew up Kaye begins to remember playing with faeries as a child. She remembers them so vividly that they seem real to her. Suddenly, Kaye is crossing paths with them again and realizes that they are real, and that she herself is a faerie! She is a green-skinned pixie, who apparently was switched with a human child at birth (a changeling). Soon Kaye is embroiled in a fight to save herself from become a sacrifice in the malevolent faerie court.
Reaction: This story takes place in a very specific area of New Jersey: the Jersey shore – home of Bruce Springsteen and the Asbury Park boardwalk. I grew up in this region so I especially enjoyed the setting of this book. The story was very engaging, although some of the language and violence seemed a litt...more
Reaction: This story takes place in a very specific area of New Jersey: the Jersey shore – home of Bruce Springsteen and the Asbury Park boardwalk. I grew up in this region so I especially enjoyed the setting of this book. The story was very engaging, although some of the language and violence seemed a litt...more
