The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Black, H. (2013). The coldest girl in Coldtown.  New York: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.

Tana Bach is a teenager who lives in a world with humans and vampires.  She wakes up in a house after a party to find that they were attacked by vampires and all of her friends were dead except her ex-boyfriend, who is infected and a mysterious vampire called Gaviel.  She heads to the nearest Coldtown to stop her transformation.  She can be cured is she can refrain from drinking human blood for up to 88 days.  Tana discovers that Gaviel is an ancient vampire who is on a quest for revenge against his maker.  She he is determined to fight the virus that she locks herself up with Gaviel by her side. 

 This is a great novel for readers who like dark vampire stories.  It is a fast paced with plenty of gory and thrills.  It did have some very scary parts but it made it for very good reading. Black provided many flash back chapters which help the reader to develop background knowledge needed to make connections.  This novel falls under the science fiction but under the vampire category.  According to Young Adult Literature in Action: A Librarian's Guide (2014), "While the majority of the time vampire novels are labeled as fantasy, there are instances when science is involved, such as in the origin of the vampires, the actual world, or the attempt to either cure or kill the vampires" (p. 101). 

Chance, R. (2014). Young adult literature in action: A librarian's guide. 2nd ed. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited.