This is the book Twilight wishes it could be. It is a vampire love story as it should be. It is full of gore because after all vampires are dangerous blood-sucking undead creatures who just happened to have been human at some point. There is danger, intrigue, romance, blood, and stakes. There is no going out in the daylight because when there is then there is smoldering, burning flesh, and a pile of ash.
AND THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO SPARKLING!!!!!
Tana wakes up in a bathtub after a party and all the other teens at this party are dead. The only other souls (or soulless) left alive (relatively speaking) are her pain-in-the-ass ex-boyfriend and a vampire who she feels drawn to save even as she is terrified of him.
Along the road to a Coldtown there is blood (it is after all a vampire story), mystery (who is this vampire and why isn't he trying to drain all the blood form Tana's still living body?), and betrayal. But there is also romance. And this is the least sappy romance I have ever read. And I loved it.
Very well written and fresh even while it might feel familiar because it follows years and years of accepted vampire lore.
Take a trip to Coldtown, you won't regret it.
(Finished December 27, 2014)
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