Summary: 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.
Summary Credit: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46777.Tithe
A quick rant...
Okay so this is the second Holly Black book I have read. The first was the decent White Cat which I may review sometime after reading this one.
I'm glad that I read that one first.
If not I might not have read another Black novel.
The Good: Black's writing style. Not only is it gorgeous, she can pull you in with these amazing sentences that just rock my world. She almost reminds me of a female Edgar Allen Pole. Yeah I went there. And let's just say I would give my left arm to write like Pole. So yeah...
I also like the idea of evil faeries. I am a life-long believer that faeries are evil and Black does a decent job proving to me just that. In fact, her faeries are pretty kick-assed evil... Almost.
You see, I loved to hate her characters. I've been staring at this post for like the past two hours trying to think whether or not they belong in the Good or Bad category. Although I feel as if I know the characters well enough and they have pretty clear-cut personalities, they didn't do very much for me. They weren't really like any older teenager I know.
The Bad: The. Entire. Plot.
I don't even think there really was a plot to this book. Either that or I lost it about half-way through the novel.
Overall: AMAZING writing but the plot did nothing for me.
4 out of 10
***NOTE*** She DID get better. I liked White Cat a hell of a lot more.
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