While I did indeed enjoy Holly Black's Tithe, it was as a brainless read. I found her inconsistent and choppy style of writing very unsatisfying. Things in her novel happen without reason and are entirely irrelevant to the plot, the main character seems distant and rather dumb in that the reader never gets to truly understand her thinking, her reasoning, her actions, anything, and everytime something happens, Black describes the event quickly and we never really learn the aftermath of the event. The book skips from scene to scene without explanation. I wish Black could elaborate more. Characters are killed off randomly for no reason, and the ones that weren't killed off, I couldn't connect or empathize with. Overall, a good read, but not one that I would recommend.