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The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

A wholly original story of rage and revenge, guilt and horror, and love and loathing

Holly Black, Author

Imprint: Orion Children's Books

Publication date: February 6, 2014

Category: Fantasy

ISBN: 9781780621715

Coldtown is dangerous. A prison for the damned and those who party with them.
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Cruel Prince comes a deliciously dark YA novel for fans of Twilight and The Vampire Diaries.

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 and deadly! The only problem is, once you pass through Coldtown’s gates, you can never leave …

When Tana wakes up one morning after a perfectly ordinary party, she finds herself surrounded by corpses. The only other survivors of the massacre are her 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 heart of Coldtown itself.

A wholly original story of rage and revenge, love and loathing from bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Spiderwick Chronicles and The Folk of the Air series, Holly Black.

Reviews

An imaginative and creepy read

SFX Magazine

Thrilling and original

Books For Keeps

Replete with grisly violence, an intriguingly complex take on the mechanics of vampirism, and well-developed and memorable characters, this superior, dread-soaked tale will satisfy vampire addicts of all ages.

PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY

Exciting, violent, sexy, Tana is a wonderful creation, sarcastic, intensely loyal and yet very sensitive. This is the fastest paced vampire thriller you'll ever read. The Coldest Girl in Coldtown will be a sensational bestseller.

HACKWRITERS.COM

This is an enormously entertaining horror, which makes Twilight look tame. Delightfully dark and gorgeously gothic

Book Trust

A mind-blowing story of rage and revenge, love and loathing

The Sun

[Racks] up suspense to a Hitchcock-aping high

Sci Fi Now

Holly Black

Holly Black is the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of over thirty fantasy novels for kids and teens, including THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES. Her books have been translated into 32 languages worldwide and adapted for film. Holly currently lives in New England with her husband and son in a house with a secret library.

Visit Holly’s website www.blackholly.com or follow her on Twitter @hollyblack