The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black

I either hated or disliked every single character, with the majority of my loathing directed towards the main character and her incomprehensible stupidity: Tana Bach. Overall, the reason why I disliked this story is because of the characters. This book's type of vampirism does not break any mold, but it was well-conceived enough. The concept of Coldtown was interesting at first, but ended up being a mess with a lot of holes and inconsistencies that my mind could not comprehend. There was too much needless introspection, too many flashbacks, and memories, and characters' POVs that felt largely irrelevant to the main part of the story. You could have easily removed a good 25% of this book without losing relevant, without losing much of the plot. This book was overly long for the material that it contained. What did not work was the plot, and the excessiveness of the book. Holly Black is a good writer, the writing in this book is runs excessively so at times, but I enjoy that sort of writing, so it didn't bother me too much. The best thing about this book is the writing. However boring Bella is, however irrelevant her character, Bella's actions are still more tolerable than the main character in this book, who, at every turn, has the urge to run headfirst into death. Bella waits, while the world revolves around her. I cannot find any sympathy, I cannot find any respect, I cannot find any enjoyment, and I cannot find myself liking a character who behaves in such an astoundingly foolish manner.īella may be inactive. Above all, however we tend to mock Bella, she is at best naive, foolish, completely and utterly clueless and without personality-but at least she's smarter than the incomprehensible pile of TSTL poop that is Tana. The writing is nothing special, but it is easy to read and easy to understand. Yes, I mock Twilight, but at least it has a plot (however simplistic) that is rational and easy to follow. With that said, I would read the Twilight series three times over before reaching for this book again. It's often been the butt of my jokes, and I often find myself mocking Bella Swan for her stupidity. I know that Twilight is standard for the vampire book we love to hate. She’d been a hundred kinds of stupid already.I mean, I can hardly be accused of being excessively judgmental on a character's idiocy when she repeatedly realizes she's being dumb, right? :| Stop being stupid, told herself, even though it was much too late for that.

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black