5/31/2023 0 Comments Modern faerie tales![]() In return, he grants her three truthfully answered questions about anything she chooses, which she does not immediately use. Her suspicions dissolve when she finds and saves the life of Roiben, a faerie knight, by pulling an iron-tipped arrow from his chest. ![]() However, she fails to find them and, begins to suspect that they were simply figments of her imagination. Once at her grandmother's house, Kaye begins to look for her old "imaginary" friends she had during her childhood, faeries named Lutie-Loo, Spike, and Gristle. ![]() After her mother's boyfriend and guitarist, Lloyd, attempts to stab her mother under the enchantment of Nephamael (a knight of the Unseelie Court) her mother takes her back to Kaye's grandmother's house in New Jersey to stay. The book begins in Philadelphia, at a gig her mother's band Stepping Razor is playing in a seedy bar in Philadelphia. Tithe follows the story of sixteen-year-old American, Kaye Fierch, a young nomad who tours the country with her mother's rock band. Tithe was one of five finalists for the annual Mythopoeic Fantasy Award in children's literature. The novel is set on the Jersey Shore and Black calls it "suburban fantasy, as opposed to urban fantasy". ![]() ![]() Sequels- Valiant (2005) and Ironside (2007)-completed a trilogy that is sometimes called Modern Tale of Faerie, the subtitle of volume two. It was published in 2002 by Simon & Schuster, who recommended it for "ages 12 up". Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale is a young-adult fantasy novel written by Holly Black. ![]()
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