Tithe (Modern Faerie Tales, #1)

by Holly Black

[Linda]

This was a very strange, modern fairy tale. It started with Kaye, her mom and her mom's boyfriend in a bar. Kaye is a young girl, who smokes, drinks, and has dropped out of school to do deliveries for a Chinese restaurant.

Kaye and her mom, Ellen, move back to Jersey Shore, in her grand-mother's house. She hooks up with her childhood-friend Janet, and things are just weird. They go to a party, Kaye is upstairs and makes a broken wooden-horse stand up on its' legs, where Janet's boyfriend Kenny sees her. He starts to touch her, until she runs away.

When walking home, she finds a hurt fairy, Roiben, near the road, and she helps him get an arrow out and to get help from a kelpie.

The whole story was a little confusing to me, and even at the very end, it does not make a whole lot of sense.

I guess what it made me think the most is that fairies, and yes, Kaye is also a fairy, are even weirder than I thought before...

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