Food and drink can’t be trusted not to leave you in thrall.īut there remains a seductive appeal. You don’t always have to be wandering through the forest alone to risk abduction when a crowded dance party works just as well. The familiar can’t always be trusted-not only do faeries deceive with their glamours and charms, but mortals also have their own unpleasant secrets. One thing they share in common is the way they show how dangerous the world can be for women. Where Tithe set the tone for the subgenre, Valentine attempts to subvert what are by now some very well-established conventions.
While Tithe and Valentine share some similarities, under the surface they are doing very different things. One by one, they begin to go missing as the Unseelie fae try to hunt down which of them is Seelie royalty swapped at birth.Īs I’ll be discussing the series in some detail, I highly recommend reading it first if you care about spoilers. This is a book set in an Australian town and is about four teenagers who are born on Valentine’s Day. Until Valentine by Jodi McAlister was published in 2017. Since then, I’ve read a large number of the faerie YA books inspired by the series, but none of them quite lived up to that first one. I was in my mid-twenties before I came across it, so possibly a little old for its target audience, but that didn’t stop me from devouring it and its sequels in short order. Holly Black’s Tithe was one of those books I’d been waiting my whole life to read.
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