REVIEW: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown didnt light any fires...

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Author: Holly Black
Pages: 419 pages
Star Rating: 3 stars

One word review: Boring

Okay, for a standalone this book really didn't have much going for it, the characters were flat and the little action that happened was poorly written. Now Holly Black is one of my auto-buy authors and I generally love her style of writing, but I just couldn't appreciate this book!

Firstly not much really happened, everyone knew from the beginning what the vampires were like inside the 'coldtowns' and we knew that she would get in and not get out again. There were very few twists in the story and even those were pretty much predicable; this was a real let down because it was hyped up so much!

Secondly the characters had no oomph to them; they were all monotone and pretty much dull, even the 'celebrity' vampires had little going for them, let alone the few human characters.

However the book had so much potential, if it had been worked better then this could have been ground-breaking, unfortunately it fell at the first hurdle.