Tithe is a modern take on faerie tales. Faye lives a very unenchanted life, following her-never-quite-made-it rockstar mother around New Jersey, scraping together cash for cigarettes and trying to avoid teenage trouble. When she finds a wounded faerie knight in the woods, she's drawn into a deadly game of intrigue between the Seelie and Unseelie Courts, with her lives and the lives of her friends as the stakes. Oh, and she's also not a human 16-year old, but a faerie changeling.

This is a quick YA book, and there's not much interesting in the way of plot or character, but Black has a talent for realism and imagination, in the gritty world of New Jersey, and the fantastic courts of the fey.