The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Black, H. (2013). The coldest girl in Coldtown. New York: Little, Brown and Company. Seventeen- year- old Tana had no idea that her friend Lance’s party would change her life forever. When she wakes up from what she thought was a drunken party she finds all of her friends have been massacred except for her ex-boyfriend and a strange new boy with ruby red eyes. Tana lives in a world in which vampires exist in walled cities known as Coldtowns and now she must go there to find a way to save herself and the only other two survivors of the deadly party. Although this novel might be considered by some as fantasy because it involves vampires which are supernatural creatures, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown is science fiction. Black’s descriptions of how vampires are born and how to cure and kill them throughout the novel solidify it as a science fiction novel. Students who enjoyed The Coldest Girl in Coldtown will also enjoy reading Darkness Before Dawn by J.A. London.