Still, it ended up being an interesting reading experience and while I don’t think I’d return to it, I am glad to be able to cross it off my reading list.Īnd then, we have Ironside, the series finale that is basically a sequel to Tithe, as readers will be catching up with Kaye and Roiben.
I didn’t particularly love any of the characters (except perhaps Roiben, though he’s not in this nearly enough), and I found some of the wording regarding race and sexuality cringey. One thing I didn’t expect was that so much of this story takes place Ironside (or in the human world, basically), and I must confess to not enjoying those parts as much as the moments we get to spend within the world of Faerie itself (which is just as cruel and confusing and mesmerizing as it is in the Folk of the Air trilogy). And I’m not just saying that based on the fashion choices (which were… something) or the writing (which points clearly to this being Black’s first published work)! There’s just something about this novel’s essence that rings reminiscent of other such stories published during the early 2000s, especially in terms of the actual plot and the pacing, and that’s not something that necessarily appeals me these days (unless I have an established nostalgic attachment to the story). While I did like it (for the most part anyway, though like does feel like a pretty strong word to use in conjunction with this book), Tithe certainly did not age well. All I really knew about Tithe before I dove into it was that it was Holly Black’s first novel that featured the world of Faerie and individuals tied to that world.
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