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The Coldest Girl in Coldtown - Holly Black Synopsis Tana wakes up in the morning after a wild high school party, and goes downstairs to find she’s the only one who has survived a vicious vampire attack. As she escapes, she also helps her ex-boyfriend, who has been bitten, and a young mysterious vampire. Together they drive to a Coldtown: a place where vampires and those who are bitten are quarantined in an effort to keep the epidemic contained. Non-infected people can also enter, but once you go in, it’s almost impossible to get out. Tana is determined to get out, even if that means taking on the biggest, baddest, and most powerful vampire in Coldtown. Review Vampires aren’t really my thing, but Holly Black just made it WORK in this story and reminded me how seductive, intriguing, and terrifying they can be. In this story, vampires have become an epidemic. Once bitten by a vampire, a person goes “Cold", and if they drink human blood within that time, then they die a...

We took a trip to the States at the end of September through the beginning of October to visit my friends and family and to have a US reception for our wedding. It was a wonderful trip with lots of good food and good fun (and probably too much cake... but is that even really possible??). And I actually bought some books. Like, hard copies of books. Man oh man have I missed those. The smell of paper and ink! Intoxicating!  Pioneer Book in Provo is one of the best used bookstores I've been to and it took some serious willpower not to buy more than two books! (My main limit was weight in our suitcases back) Anyway, that combined with coming home to newly remodeled ceilings (they look amazing) and having to clean up the dust and unpack (again) everything from where we had stored it in the bathroom means this post is a bit late in coming. But better late than never! Let's just say I definitely made up for August with how many books I read in September!!! A Court of ...