Holly Black
Autor(a) de The Cruel Prince
About the Author
Holly Black was born in West Long Branch, New Jersey on November 10, 1971. She graduated with a B.A. in English from The College of New Jersey in 1994. Her first book, Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale was published in 2002 and was included in the American Library Association's Best Books for Young mostrar mais Adults. Her other works include The Spiderwick Chronicles written with Tony DiTerlizzi, Ironside, Poison Eaters and Other Stories, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, The Iron Trial (Magisteruim Book 1) and The Copper Gauntlet (Magisteruim Book 2) written with Cassandra Clare, and The Darkest Part of the Forest. Valiant won the Andre Norton Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature. She also won the Young-Adult Prize in the Indies Choice Book Awards 2015 for The Darkest Part of the Forest. Black and Clare's Magisterium Series has received both critical and popular acclaim appearing on numerous bestseller lists including The New York Times bestseller list in the Young Adult category. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Disambiguation Notice:
(eng) Wrote the Spiderwick Chronicles, which were illustrated by Tony DiTerlizzi. Do not combine this page with Mr. DiTerlizzi's author page, or with any of the various pages that are in both their names. Thank you.
Séries
Obras por Holly Black
The Chronicles of Spiderwick: A Grand Tour of the Enchanted World, Navigated by Thimbletack (2007) 127 exemplares
Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles: The Nixies Song; A Giant Problem; The Wyrm King (2009) 54 exemplares
The Golden Boy 19 exemplares
The Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing / How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (2021) 7 exemplares
The Aarne-Thompson Classification Revue 4 exemplares
The Coat of Stars 3 exemplares
Magisterium. La prima trilogia: L'anno di ferro-Il guanto di rame-La chiave di bronzo (2019) 3 exemplares
Not Alone 3 exemplares
Untitled (Book of Night, #2) 3 exemplares
Book of Night Sneak Peek 3 exemplares
The Stolen Heir 2 exemplares
Thief of Night (Book of Night, #2) 2 exemplares
Elfy ziemi i powietrza. Tom 1. Zla królowa 2 exemplares
The Darkest Part of the Forest [Excerpt] 2 exemplares
The Dog King [short story] 2 exemplares
Paper Cuts Scissors [short story] 2 exemplares
Not for Humans 2 exemplares
Reversal of Fortune 2 exemplares
Valiant AND Ironside 1 exemplar
Virgin 1 exemplar
Die ELFENKRONE-Reihe Band 1-3: Elfenkrone / Elfenkönig / Elfenthron (3in1-Bundle) (German Edition) 1 exemplar
The Rowan Gentleman [short story] 1 exemplar
The Perfect Dinner Party 1 exemplar
The Boy Who Cried Wolf [short story] 1 exemplar
Krampuslauf [short story] 1 exemplar
The Night Market 1 exemplar
Heartless 1 exemplar
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown [Excerpt] 1 exemplar
The Coldest Girl in Goldtown 1 exemplar
Lucifer (2015-2017) #09 1 exemplar
Lucifer (2015-2017) #02 1 exemplar
Las crónicas de Spiderwick Vol. 2: La pidera clarividente (Las Crónicas De Spiderwick/ the Spiderwick… (2022) 1 exemplar
Lucifer (2015-2017) #04 1 exemplar
Sobek [short story] 1 exemplar
Noble Rot 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories (2011) — Contribuidor — 678 exemplares
The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities: Exhibits, Oddities, Images, and Stories from Top Authors and Artists (2011) — Contribuidor — 417 exemplares
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: 21st Annual Collection (2008) — Contribuidor — 165 exemplares
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Three (2009) — Contribuidor — 140 exemplares
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2011 Edition (2011) — Contribuidor; Contribuidor — 117 exemplares
Swashbuckling Fantasy: 10 Thrilling Tales of Magical Adventure (2006) — Contribuidor — 77 exemplares
New York Fantastic: Fantasy Stories from the City that Never Sleeps (2017) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Black, Holly
- Outros nomes
- Riggenbach, Holly
- Data de nascimento
- 1971-11-10
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- West Long Branch, New Jersey, USA
- Locais de residência
- Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
- Educação
- College of New Jersey (B.A., English, 1994)
Rutgers University - Ocupações
- author (contemporary fantasy novels for children and teens)
- Relações
- Clare, Cassandra (writing partner)
Black, Theo (husband)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Black was born in West Long Branch, New Jersey[2] in 1971, and during her early years her family lived in a "decrepit Victorian house."[3] Black graduated with a B.A. in English from The College of New Jersey in 1994. She worked as a production editor on medical journals including The Journal of Pain while studying at Rutgers University. She considered becoming a librarian as a backup career, but writing drew her away.
She married her high school sweetheart, Theo Black, himself an accomplished illustrator and web designer, in 1999.[2]
As of 2008, Black resides in Amherst, Massachusetts.[4] - Nota de desambiguação
- Wrote the Spiderwick Chronicles, which were illustrated by Tony DiTerlizzi. Do not combine this page with Mr. DiTerlizzi's author page, or with any of the various pages that are in both their names. Thank you.
Membros
Críticas
'The Coldest Girl In Coldtown' was excellent. It had a good plot, strong world-building, a cast of relatable characters and a teenage heroine, Tana, who I could believe in and care about and who wasn't another version of Buffy Summers.
The Coldtowns at the heart of the story give an original answer to the "What if vampires came out into the open?" question. In the US, Coldtowns were created to contain the vampire plague that was sweeping the world. They are prison towns used to quarantine the vampires and the infected but not yet turned. You can go in but you can't come back out and once you're in, the rule of law no longer applies. The vampires ensure their food supply by controlling who gets turned and by using social media feeds of glamorous parties with beautiful vampires to attract people to enter a Coldtown so that they can join the party and , if they can get turned, party on forever.
The worldbuilding in the book is skullfully folded into the backstory and character exposition. This is a very personal account. Most of what we learn about the world comes from learnging about Tana, her family and the people that she meets. Most of it is told as part of the stream of events that carry Tana into Coldtown with the exception of a few flashbacks that give some insight into Tana's history or the history of one of the vampires.
For me, the main strength of the book was that it focused not on the vampires or their world but on the personal journey for Tana, the seventeen-year-old main character. Her reactions set the emotional tone of the book, which is mostly of shock and fear and uncetrainty that somehow feels matter of fact rather than melodramatic. We first meet Tana, as she wakes in a bathtub after getting drunk at a party and finds that her friends have been that her friends slaughtered by vampires during the night. I liked that she was freaked out by all the gore but kept going anyway. I also liked that, even when she was flooded with fear, had a strong urge to flee and could hear the killer vampires stirring, she couldn't bring herself to leave the behind two survivors she found bound and chained in a bedroom
Tana has s strong need to do the right thing but real life keeps getting in the way and her own conflicting desires make it harder to figure out what the right thing is. She sees the world quite clearly. Unlike her little sister, who has posters of vampires up on her wall and is besotted with the fairytale glamour pumper out be the live feeds from Coldtown, Tana doesn't see vampires as glamorous. She doesn't see tham as demonic either. For the most part she sees them as people who discover who they really are when they possess the power to do anything to anyone without suffering any consequences. She recognises that it's a lust for this power that pulls so many people to Coldtown.
When Tana finally enters Coldtown, she sees it for the grubby, dark, dangerous, desperate place that it is. She understands that whole situation is wrong and that there's nothing she can do about it except make the best choices that she can.
The plot kept Tana at the centre without turning her into a super hero. The choices she takes define her. They make her more herself but she is still essentially the same girl that we met at the start of the book.
The plot is clever and kept the tension high right up to the end, partly by revealing more about the relationship between the main characters but mostly by keeping me engaged with Tana and by knowing that, whatever she decided to do, it would be unexpected.
I had a great time with 'The Coldest Girl In Coldtown' and I'll be looking for more books by Holly Black, I'm tempted by her Curse Workers series and by her latest novel, 'Book Of Night'.… (mais)
The Coldtowns at the heart of the story give an original answer to the "What if vampires came out into the open?" question. In the US, Coldtowns were created to contain the vampire plague that was sweeping the world. They are prison towns used to quarantine the vampires and the infected but not yet turned. You can go in but you can't come back out and once you're in, the rule of law no longer applies. The vampires ensure their food supply by controlling who gets turned and by using social media feeds of glamorous parties with beautiful vampires to attract people to enter a Coldtown so that they can join the party and , if they can get turned, party on forever.
The worldbuilding in the book is skullfully folded into the backstory and character exposition. This is a very personal account. Most of what we learn about the world comes from learnging about Tana, her family and the people that she meets. Most of it is told as part of the stream of events that carry Tana into Coldtown with the exception of a few flashbacks that give some insight into Tana's history or the history of one of the vampires.
For me, the main strength of the book was that it focused not on the vampires or their world but on the personal journey for Tana, the seventeen-year-old main character. Her reactions set the emotional tone of the book, which is mostly of shock and fear and uncetrainty that somehow feels matter of fact rather than melodramatic. We first meet Tana, as she wakes in a bathtub after getting drunk at a party and finds that her friends have been that her friends slaughtered by vampires during the night. I liked that she was freaked out by all the gore but kept going anyway. I also liked that, even when she was flooded with fear, had a strong urge to flee and could hear the killer vampires stirring, she couldn't bring herself to leave the behind two survivors she found bound and chained in a bedroom
Tana has s strong need to do the right thing but real life keeps getting in the way and her own conflicting desires make it harder to figure out what the right thing is. She sees the world quite clearly. Unlike her little sister, who has posters of vampires up on her wall and is besotted with the fairytale glamour pumper out be the live feeds from Coldtown, Tana doesn't see vampires as glamorous. She doesn't see tham as demonic either. For the most part she sees them as people who discover who they really are when they possess the power to do anything to anyone without suffering any consequences. She recognises that it's a lust for this power that pulls so many people to Coldtown.
When Tana finally enters Coldtown, she sees it for the grubby, dark, dangerous, desperate place that it is. She understands that whole situation is wrong and that there's nothing she can do about it except make the best choices that she can.
The plot kept Tana at the centre without turning her into a super hero. The choices she takes define her. They make her more herself but she is still essentially the same girl that we met at the start of the book.
The plot is clever and kept the tension high right up to the end, partly by revealing more about the relationship between the main characters but mostly by keeping me engaged with Tana and by knowing that, whatever she decided to do, it would be unexpected.
I had a great time with 'The Coldest Girl In Coldtown' and I'll be looking for more books by Holly Black, I'm tempted by her Curse Workers series and by her latest novel, 'Book Of Night'.… (mais)
This story really had to grow on me. For the longest it was just horrid demonic bullying done by fairies until some deviously decadent court politics. Surprisingly, the real world still plays a part here.
One of the absolute best parts is the (step)father-daughter relationship between Madoc and Jude. I enjoyed Madoc a lot. He was like a snake; in which, snakes aren't inherently good or evil, but they are always going to do snake things like bite, hiss, or potentially poison you to death. And yet in a twisted way Madoc loved his family with all his heart.
Also, I liked Oriana. At first, she seems as if she's just fulfilling the evil stepmother role or at least a disinterested one, but no she was much more.
I was unmoved by the daughters. Vivi may have been the best. I can't decide whether Taryn is a spineless wimp or overly ambitious. Jude I felt nothing for neither in strong dislike or like. Cardan is the worst of "has-daddy-issues"; I don't mind characters with parental issues, but they have to be likable.
But this is truly enemies to lovers. I'm ambivalent about if I want to read book two or not. I don't think I have ever seen fairies portrayed this darkly or gruesome before. Interesting.… (mais)
One of the absolute best parts is the (step)father-daughter relationship between Madoc and Jude. I enjoyed Madoc a lot. He was like a snake; in which, snakes aren't inherently good or evil, but they are always going to do snake things like bite, hiss, or potentially poison you to death. And yet in a twisted way Madoc loved his family with all his heart.
Also, I liked Oriana. At first, she seems as if she's just fulfilling the evil stepmother role or at least a disinterested one, but no she was much more.
I was unmoved by the daughters. Vivi may have been the best. I can't decide whether Taryn is a spineless wimp or overly ambitious. Jude I felt nothing for neither in strong dislike or like. Cardan is the worst of "has-daddy-issues"; I don't mind characters with parental issues, but they have to be likable.
But this is truly enemies to lovers. I'm ambivalent about if I want to read book two or not. I don't think I have ever seen fairies portrayed this darkly or gruesome before. Interesting.… (mais)
Not my type, not for me ...I tried and I tried but nothing was calling me back to this one.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 135
- Also by
- 59
- Membros
- 75,688
- Popularidade
- #165
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 2,423
- ISBN
- 1,307
- Línguas
- 25
- Marcado como favorito
- 173
The plot follows "Charlie Hall, who has never found a lock she couldn’t pick, a book she couldn’t steal, or a bad decision she wouldn’t make."
Some characters possess the remarkable ability to manipulate their shadows, either through magic or by nourishing them through other means.
While character building is a vital component of any story, there are moments where it seems the book could benefit from more depth and development in this aspect. The use of dual timelines, although intriguing, adds to the unhurried pace, requiring patience from those seeking immediate thrills.
Aound 3/4 in, it does start to pick up. I just struggled to stay present with the book.
The Book of Night may not live up to the high expectations set by her previous works.
I still think she is a great author and will read her other works. My heart just wasn't in this one.… (mais)