Tithe
Welcome to the realm of very scary faeries! 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 Kaye back to her childhood home. There, amid the industrial, blue-collar New Jersey backdrop, Kaye...
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Welcome to the realm of very scary faeries! 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 Kaye 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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780689867040 (0689867042)
ASIN: 689867042
Publish date: April 1st 2004
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages no: 331
Edition language: English
Series: Modern Faerie Tales (#1)
Sind Feen real? Holly Black wird diese Frage offenbar so oft gestellt, dass sie sie in den FAQ-Bogen ihrer Website aufnahm. Obwohl sie schreibt, dass sie es nicht weiß und sich selbst als optimistische Skeptikerin bezeichnet, weil sie auf einen greifbaren Beweis für die Existenz des Feenvolkes beste...
12/12 - I have been looking forward to reading my first Holly Black book for ages, more keenly since I saw it coming up in the queue of suspended holds at my local library. You see I have a system (I like systems, plans, self-imposed missions, that kind of thing) where I always have a library book ...
I hate when this happens....You start a book, it seems ok, like it has potential and you are happy. Although this is a YA novel, it's targeted for mature audiences. Just because the main characters are underage doesn't mean that the story is for little kiddies. I hate it when authors try and make a ...
I have an old battered copy of Tithe - a copy so old it took some digging to find even a passable photo of the cover. I've read it at least three times now and it's definitely an old favourite of mine. I've never reviewed it before though, and I do think that I was reading this for the first time I ...
Really good YA novel. You can tell when they put time into the margins and the type that the publisher is invested in the series. Really easy to read, especially on the bus (godsend!). Punk-rock fairies. Feels like the Breakfast Club, only with pixies.