{"id":29252,"date":"2015-06-05T06:30:42","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T18:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=29252"},"modified":"2016-03-25T15:19:43","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T02:19:43","slug":"read-enjoyed-recently-the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown-by-holly-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/06\/05\/read-enjoyed-recently-the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown-by-holly-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Read & Enjoyed Recently: “The Coldest Girl In Coldtown” by Holly Black"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Coldest<\/a>As I said recently in my post on Emily St John Mandel’s Station Eleven<\/a>: “…it\u2019s not the genre but how the genre is executed that really counts.”<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s also relevant that I mentioned being a tad over vampire novels, particularly the YA variants.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, Holly Black’s<\/a> The Coldest Girl In Coldtown<\/em><\/strong> is a vampire novel and I enjoyed it all the same. It’s an entertaining, well-paced read, with a number of interesting and sympathetic characters (as well as a number of decidedly unsympathetic ones) and some excellent world-building. I also thought the romantic elements were well handled.<\/p>\n

If I were one of those readers that demands that everything I read should be “the new, the new”, then I probably wouldn’t recommend this book to you. The Coldest Girl In Coldtown<\/em><\/strong> doesn’t do a whole lot new with the genre and if you’ve read Robin McKinley’s Sunshine<\/em><\/strong> or Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse<\/strong> novels you’ll find yourself on familiar ground. There were also echoes of books in related genres, such as Cherie Priest’s Boneshaker<\/em><\/strong> and Max Brooks’ World War Z<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

If you feel like a relatively light, well-crafted, YA vampire novel with romantic elements The Coldest Girl In Coldtown<\/em><\/strong> could be just the ticket. In addition to the other books already mentioned, if you’ve enjoyed the Mira Grant Newsflesh<\/strong> trilogy, Caitlin Tiernan’s Immortal Beloved<\/strong><\/em>, or Melissa Marr’s Wicked Lovely<\/em><\/strong>, I’m pretty sure you’ll like The Coldest Girl In Coldtown.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I said recently in my post on Emily St John Mandel’s Station Eleven: “…it\u2019s not the genre but how the genre is executed that really counts.” It’s also relevant that I mentioned being a tad over vampire novels, particularly the YA variants. Nonetheless, Holly Black’s The Coldest Girl In Coldtown is a vampire novel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-im-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29252"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29258,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29252\/revisions\/29258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}