Valiant is darker and seedier, but I still think it made for an amazing read.Īlso, and this is just my feelings on this, I think a lot of people don’t like Valiant as much as Tithe just because the male lead doesn’t fit in as well with their idea of Prince Charming. I would like to point out that by the end she overcomes all this, which is more than what we can say for Kaye. In Valiant, the protagonist does a lot of things that people consider morally reprehensible (crazy drugs, casual sex, etc), and is ultimately held more accountable for her behaviors because she is human.

In Tithe, the protagonist shoplifted, smoked, and was a high school dropout, and all of these (relatively) minor flaws are kind of overshadowed by the fact that (spoiler) she isn’t human. It is also a very different kind of story than Tithe, so be warned. While this is written in the same universe as Tithe, it is not about the same characters. Review #5 Free audio Valiant – in the audio player below Altogether, not a bad story and I’m glad I read it. Nice ending, it didn’t leave me feeling all warm and fuzzy inside and it didn’t have me throwing it aside ready to move on. There’s not much, good or bad, that I can say about this book…It just registers right there in the middle. I like the kind of bad a** Val was…a complete human willing to do anything for the “creature” she loved. If I were Val in this book I would have done a lot of punching in the face starting with dear old mom. I, again, had a hard time picturing these characters so I just made up my own description and images of them (didn’t mess with the story any, I just like to picture the characters clearly in my head). Her descriptions of how it is to live on the streets of NY seemed so well put that I actually began to feel cold and dirty reading it. There was some lead up to the events and a little more explanation this time which I liked. In this one the author didn’t jump into the story right away. I didn’t really go into this book with many, if any, expectations because I already knew that it was going to have little to do with the first book Tithe.

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