Rath Roiben Rye!

[evilbeej]

Oh lord.

I've been falling all over myself trying to find and reread the books I love in a particular way for particular things, trying to inject my brainmeats with glamour, so to speak. Trying to cram my head full of the magic that lurks behind trees, in tin cans rusted and mixed with vines and dirt and snow on the hill by the train tracks, under the broken bricks in the backyard, in the hollow between the twin trunks of the cauldron tree next to the old grill, in the overgrown stream that leads under the road from the waterfall so often clogged with leaves and algae. Trying to find the talisman between the cracks in the pavement, the book in the library that tells my story, the faerie gold to pay for carbonated water in siphon bottles nicked from a strange house's pantry, the names of the stars and just the right intonation to use when reciting the Breastplate of St Patrick, the ghost who carved his name in the bed and hid the key to a cipher under the solid oak drawer in the dresser, the blue paint to make myself frightening and the red thread to embroider charms on the insides of my outside-in clothing.

I forgot that the good guys took over the YA fiction section and that it's full to brimming with raw, roiling beauty and danger and adventure and stories I haven't read yet.

I've just read through, staying up all night because I couldn't stop reading, Tithe by Holly Black. And I can't give a review, because it's so clever, so lovely, so twisting and dark and bright and true, that I can't bear to give any of it away.

You all should read it too.

Comments

[dannisken.livejournal.com]

I have read it. It is very good. There's a second book she's written in the same world. I don't recall the title, but Kyrie has it and I'll ask her.

[(Anonymous)]

I stayed up the rest of the night and read that one, too. It's called Valiant. I loved it also, but not quite so much as Tithe.

[erispope.livejournal.com]

Yes. Huge, huge fan of hers. She's on livejournal as blackholly. She's doing a true sequel to Tithe called Ironsides, which will be out in a few months. And Valiant is very good, too/

[pikakao.livejournal.com]

Adding it to my book list. :)