“Buffy fans rejoice! Holly Black’s newest young adult novel, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, is bloodsucking fun, full of crossbows, spicy vampire –human romance, and a kick-ass vampire-killing girl. Throw in live reality vampire television and you’re on the right track.

After a teen small town party, Tana wakes up in a bathtub with no idea how she got there. She emerges from the locked bathroom to find that everyone she went to school with and has grown up with has been viciously ravaged and drained of blood and that the only people ‘alive’ in the house are her crazy ex-boyfriend who is tied to a bed and has been infected by the vampire disease, and a teenage vampire who is in chains.

With the threat of the vampires who slaughtered the house party returning, Tana decides to help the vampire and her ex-boyfriend escape the house. In a wild escape, a vampire’s tooth grazes Tana’s foot. Terrified she’s been infected and unsure of where to go, she, the vampire, and her infected ex head for Springfield’s (MO) Coldtown, which is essentially a Hotel California for vampires, and vampire wanna-bes-you can get in, but never return to the human world.

Is Tana really infected? Will things ever get back to ‘normal’? And who is the mysterious teenage vampire?

Hand this book to Buffy fans, teens looking for a different vampire story (other than Twilight) or who like strong female characters.”

— Jennifer Knight,Youth Services Librarian, North Olympic Library System, Port Angeles Main Library

Coldtown is hot; find it at your local bookstore or library.