The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown 

by Holly Black  

Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle in a decadently bloody mix of predator and prey. The only problem is, once you pass through Coldtown’s gates, you can never leave.

One morning, after a perfectly ordinary party, Tana wakes up surrounded by corpses. The only other survivors of this massacre are her exasperatingly endearing ex-boyfriend, infected and on the edge, and a mysterious boy burdened with a terrible secret. Shaken and determined, Tana enters a race against the clock to save the three of them the only way she knows how: by going straight to the wicked, opulent heart of Coldtown itself.

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown is a wholly original story of rage and revenge, of guilt and horror, and of love and loathing from bestselling and acclaimed author Holly Black.

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I thought I was done with vampire books. Been there, done that, over and over and over. BUT … I loved this book! Holly Black is extraordinary gifted at taking an overdone genre and injecting fresh life in it. Unique, different, reminded me a bit of The Immortal Rules but so much better. Like most of Ms. Black’s books, this is a harsh world with grim realities filled with fabulous fabulous characters.

Mom note: As a mother of readers, I also want to make a note to myself (and others if they care) why I would or would not have my children read this book, because honestly, sometimes I forget. This is a YA book, so everything is within YA strictures. Violence: heavy; Profanity: heavy; Sex: hmm … too long of a span between reading it and writing this. Innuendos for sure, can’t remember anything else.