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The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black (Review #73)

"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. And once you pass through Coldtown's gates, you can never leave.

One morning, after a perfectly normal party, Tana wakes up surrounded by corpses. The only other survivors of this massacre are her exasperatingly endearing 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 wicked, opulent heart of Coldtown itself."

Review:
"My lady, the Tiger." That line made my very soul quiver.

A human loving a vampire? It's been done. Thanks Stephanie Meyer (sarcastically said). In the first few chapters I thought the amazingly ferocious Holly Black had fallen into the vampire pit of despair, that she had stooped to author damnation. But fret not, Mrs. Black took a modercliche and revamped (pun intended) it in her own viciously delicious way. Plus, unlike Bella, the heroine DIDN'T want to turn. I loved every surprise around every spooky corner and Tara is exactly the kind of girl a main character should be: fearless and independent. She was truly my Marya Morevna.

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