
Midnight is more enthused than her twin brother, and she has a popular blog that chronicles her obsession with vampires. On the way, they pick up Midnight and Winter, twins who are obsessed with going to Coldtown and becoming vampires. Afraid that she will turn Cold (into a vampire), she takes Gavriel, Aidan, and herself to the nearest Coldtown. Tana saves both Aidan and Gavriel, the captive vampire, but in her escape, one of the vampires nicks her leg with his fang. Below them, in the basement, the vampires are awakening to come back up and kill them. When she walks out, she sees all of her classmates have been slaughtered by vampires, with the exception for her ex-boyfriend, Aidan, who has been bitten and tied to a bed. Once in Coldtown, it was nearly impossible to leave a Coldtown.Īt the beginning of the story, Tana wakes up in a bathtub after a wild high school party.

The Coldtowns attracted many people, who were drawn in by the perceived glamor of vampires. Once the government started policing vampires and people who are Cold, they started sending them to Coldtowns so they could not infect or kill innocent people. Caspar's victims turned around and created legions of new vampires before the governments around the world knew what was happening. Once they turn Cold, a person can become a vampire by drinking human blood. Vampire bites infect the bitten, and they turn Cold. Vampires were hidden, hunting in secret, when one newly turned vampire, Caspar, decided not to kill his victims. The book was written to be a standalone novel but Black has stated on her website, "I know what happens next and I’ve been thinking more and more that a sequel could be in my future." Summary

Black was inspired to use the setting and the same title to tell the story of a different character set in the same world as the short story. The basis for the novel came from a short story of the same name written by Black which was released in the prose anthology Eternal Kiss. The book was first published on September 3, 2013, through Little, Brown Books for Young Readers and follows Tana, a teenager that believes that she has been infected with vampirism.


The Coldest Girl in Coldtown is a 2013 young adult novel by Holly Black. 2013, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
