Name: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Rating: 3.969767441860465 (215 reviews)
ISBN: 9780316213103

Holly Black

When seventeen-year-old Tana wakes up following a party in the aftermath of a violent vampire attack, she travels to Coldtown, a quarantined Massachusetts city full of vampires, with her ex-boyfriend and a mysterious vampire boy in tow.

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Sarah Sammis

Annika Arguemore

I've actually finished this for a very long time now, and am currently reading another book. This is why my review might be a bit too foggy.

This was a vampire setting that was as realistic as it gets. Sure, it was still sugar-coated, being a Young Adult novel and all, but humanity (in the novel)'s reaction to the situation seemed pretty accurate. I wasn't so sure about the whole Coldtown thing, and the name Coldtown itself, but it all surprisingly worked out pretty well, and I commend Holly Black for it.

It was a book that wasn't too predictable at times, even though you kind of knew deep inside that the protagonist would get into a Coldtown. I guess what I'm trying to say is that it made you reel. I'm not actually sure, though, if it made you reel for more or reel from fear of something bad actually happening (which it didn't, by the way). The twist was unexpected, though. And I especially liked the ending.

Melissa Palmer

Book #7 Read in 2014
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black (YA)

This is a different sort of vampire book. In this book, Coldtowns are where vampires and those humans who are infected are contained...and there are not really too many rules there. Tana heads for the nearest Coldtown after her friends are slaughtered by vampires at a party...and her ex-boyfriend Aidan has been infected. Along for a ride is a vampire that Tana saved. The trio get to Coldtown and things get even more harried....vampires turning others into vampires, the head vampire being out to get them....bloodshed and mayhem. 

I loved this book (and yes, that is saying something because Holly Black's fairy books are not my cup of tea). Tana was a great character and I loved the humor, romance, action etc of the book. I liked the different take on vampires and way that was presented. I highly recommend it.

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Julia

Not my favorite book in the world, but a nice stand alone read.

“Death’s favourites don’t die”

Didn’t think reality tv and vampires would ever work together but Black really did that!! I LOVED THIS SO MUCH!

This was the most unique take on vampires i’ve read in a longgggg time and i’ve read a lot of them! The world building was so well done, the characters were really interesting, I love Tana so much she was such a good main character. Somehow the insta-love worked well too, props to the author there wow, I found myself really hoping for Gavriel and Tana. Also just as you think everything’s going to work out, plot twist(!) more drama, I really got into this book, I couldn’t stop reading!

I really missed the vampire genre and just needed something new to keep it alive for me, so I turned to Holly Black after how much i loved the cruel prince! I’m really loving how inclusive her books are and I feel this is going to set in a long time readership for me. I just wish this wasn’t a standalone...

I. NEED. MORE!

Nicole Goldstein

I thought this was really amazing. There have been so many books on vampires and lately they didn't seem scary. This reminded me of when I read and watched interview with the vampire. When vampires were romanticized but still scary. Tana's journey was thrilling and crazy and exciting. Basically the same words I would use to describe Gavirel. The whole concept was great and the action was perfect. Just a well balance in all.

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. It's an eternal party, shown on TV 24 hours a day - gorgeous, glamorous, deadly! Because, once you pass through Coldtown's gates, you can never leave... A wholly original story of rage and revenge, love and loathing from bestselling author, Holly Black. Fans of True Blood will love this dark and sexy tale.

Genuinely, Holly Black does miss. I’m wavered between 4.25 to 4.5 stars. This is what you want in a vampire book!!! Holly is so so good at characters and understanding humans, in general.

(Bre)anne✨

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Genuinely, Holly Black does miss. I’m wavered between 4.25 to 4.5 stars. This is what you want in a vampire book!!! Holly is so so good at characters and understanding humans, in general.

Lis B

Elisa Bieg

I’m always surprised when I read Holly Black’s books: they are never quite what I expect based on the title and synopsis.

This was the third book of hers that I read, and definitely the worst out of the three for me: it’s a mix of genres, and the result of that that can be really cool or very odd. This was the latter.

This is basically YA paranormal horror/mystery/dystopia/romance. It’s a weird book, where the elements from the various genres don’t quite blend seamlessly; I can’t even pinpoint exactly what didn’t work for me, because when I think of the story it sounds in theory like something that should be so intriguing and awesome; but in truth I found it hard to stick to, with scene sequences and events that were somehow jarring in their shifts rather than flow smoothly, and a summary world building that doesn’t entirely fit the story somehow, and on which I wasn’t sold AT ALL.

I other words, this book tried to do and be too much, and as a result it came up short on most counts. 

Though the MCs were kind of intriguing, the character arcs felt a little uneven and pasted together. It’s a pity because I feel like this could have been SO good, because the MCs and some of the premises were fairly original!

But as it is, this took me forever to get through and it went straight on my swap pile, and I can’t give it more than 2 STARS, despite the fact that I can’t help but feel that with a good script and a few adjustment, someone could make it into a good TV series!

Coldtown was dangerous, Tana knew. A glamorous cage, a prison for the damned and anyone who wanted to party with them. 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. And 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.

lindsey

This book was so great! Written beautifully and pieced together in an interesting way that kept me eager to read more. I adored this book and its characters...not to mention the adorable romance! Only bad thing that I must say is that I did not enjoy the ending. I didn't quite understand it and it was not what I was hoping for. Otherwise, this was such an amazing adventure to read about :)

courtney garrison

I have never read a book by Holly Black ever, so I wasn’t quite sure what to expect going into this book. I knew it was about vampires and that was it. I am glad I went into not knowing much because wow, it was so good. The writing and the characters are amazing, the way Holly Black writes is absolutely fantastic. She sucks you in and your left wanting to know more every time you read it. This book was so good I didn’t want to finish it, I wanted to hold on to as much of the story as I could.

Your MC is a girl named Tana. She awakens in a bathtub of an old farmhouse to find herself in the middle of a massacre. Everyone at the party from the night before is now dead except Aiden (Her Ex-Boyfriend) and the Vampire chained up in the corner. She is soon faced with the possibility of being infected along with Aiden already being infected and makes the choice to go to Coldtown.

Coldtowns are cities that built walls around themselves to help keep the vampire population in and hopefully stop the spread of the infection. Most humans end up going to coldtown because they have glamourized vampirism so much they want to turn into one. So facing the Aiden and Herself being infected, tana heads to coldtown in her car with Aiden and Gabriel ( the Chained up Vampire)

I keep gushing over this book, but it was so good. I honestly compare it a bit to savage song by V.E. Schwab as far as the built-up cities and Humans against monsters (Vampires). I was thoroughly impressed with this books and is definitely one of my favorites. Overall it was such an amazing book with great writing and a fabulous world. The character building was astounding, especially with the growth after getting to Coldtown.

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

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