The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black

Title: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Author: Holly Black

Type: Young Adult Novel
Genre: Fantasy

Series: No

Pages: 419
Copyright: 2013
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

Rating: 3.5 out of 5


Summary: from Goodreads.

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.

Feelings: 
I enjoyed reading this, the newest book from Holly Black. It has a different feel from the Curse Workers series which I read. I think as a whole I liked this book more than the Curse Workers series which started out really strong but by the end I was finding a little less appealing as a world and story. 

This story follows Tana who wakes up at a party and finds that she has survived, while everyone else at the part has been killed, except for her ex-boyfriend, Aidan, that has been bitten and is infected, gone Cold craving human blood, and a chained vampire, Gavriel, by his bed. Tana finds them in the bed room when she is looking for her phone and thinking about how to get out. Once they leave the house where the massacre happened Gavriel takes charge and they drive to the closest Coldtown. Tana the only one that seems to want out of the Coldtown, if she isn't infected, gets a marker for turning in Gavriel. Inside the Coldtown the story picks up and we quickly see who people really are and what they are will to do for what they want. 

The story progresses quickly. It isn't exactly your typical vampire story but it was the differences from the normal story line of vampire stories that I found interesting. I would recommend this book to fans of Holly Black and those that like vampire stories.