The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“The Coldest Girl in Coldtown,” by Holly Black, is one of the most perfect Vampire books I’ve ever read, and I have read a lot of vampire books.

I’ve read other stuff by Holly Black and have liked it ok, and I follow her on Twitter and Pinterest and like what she posts, but I’ve never been BLOWN AWAY by her work until this book.

The book opens with Tana waking up shoeless in a bathtub after a bangin’ party with her high school peers. Vampires exist in her world, have for centuries (millennia?) but have been publicly recognized– and an epidemic-like threat– for only a few years. Humans do stupid things, and a popular thing among teenagers in Tana’s world is to have Sundown Parties in an isolated area. She and her friends were drinking heavily in a farm house, and Tana blacked out in the tub. As she gets up and gets her bearings, she realizes it’s really late and wonders if she’s the first one up or not.

And then she hits the living room and sees just how lucky she was to crash in the bathtub, hidden from sight.

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Mirrored from Thoughtful Consumption.