Authors, and publishers: You need to hire VLC Productions
I am always amazed at the work Vania from VLC Productions puts into each book trailer that she designs and creates. Coming from someone who used to think book trailers were an epic (epic) waste of time, this means something. I love the fact that Vania can give me the info I need on the book without deciding too many of the places and faces I want to imagine myself. If I am ever in need of a trailer. I know where I will be going. You should head on over to the site by clicking the link above and check it out. Gonna put some of my favorite trailers here including her newest one for none other than the damsel of Spiderwick herself Holly Black.
White Cat by Holly Black Trailer
Prophecy of Sisters by Michelle Zink Trailer
The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting Trailer
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margeret Stohl Trailer
Review: Tithe (A Modern Faerie Tale), by Holly Black
Holly Black from Spiderwick Chronicles fame, had quite a break out novel with Tithe. I read the book over a couple of days and while I wasn’t immensely immersed in the novel, it wasn’t so bad that I threw it down in disgust either. It was a simple read, with an easy plot line to follow, no graphic sexual texts, although the book does reference the subject with innuendo.
The story follows a changeling named Kaye who has no idea that she is a Faerie herself, finally finds out the truth about her origins and why she felt like she just didn’t fit in. Kaye had always seen the ‘folk’ as they were called, she just didn’t know she was about to be a lot more linked to Faerie’s than she had been as a small child.
Kaye’s Mom was a rock and roll chick who fronts a band, she couldn’t tell Kaye much about her dad except that it was a drunken night on tour that created her. I really liked Black’s vision of Kaye as a naturally blond, Asian chick. The description kind of stays with you throughout the novel, when so many times the description of a character is lost or just doesn’t stay in your brain for the whole reading of the book. A night gone wrong at her Mom’s gig, sends them home to Grandma’s in Jersey. Kaye was excited to get back to her Faerie friends from her childhood.
