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438 reviews for:

Cold People

Tom Rob Smith

3.59 AVERAGE

thisbooktasticlife's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

teuenga's review against another edition

3.25

fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

subspacetachyon's review against another edition

2.5

dark reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

allyson_e's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous tense medium-paced

khristy's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Writing: solid. Didn’t detract from the sorry.
Plot/characters: I enjoyed the story. The first half had a lot of promise, a super interesting premise. The second half felt a bit rushed. I still enjoyed it, but I’m not sure if fulfilled its full potential.
Profundity: it wants you to think about what makes us human, but in the end, I thought the thoughts were too simplistic. I think it could’ve been explored better and with more depth.

erinkatherin's review against another edition

4.0

A preposterous beginning with aliens (barely there) + genetic engineering — and this books is surprisingly, keenly human. Reminds me of theoretical robots/AI (but it has nothing to do with robots/AI).

"Today's tests were a series of games -- the art of play. The intention wasn't to see how well Eitan could master the rules, since with flawless recall he'd master them on first hearing, it was to see what kind of winner he was."

Recommend to: Adam

the_jessmarie's review against another edition

2.0

I really didn't care for this book. Bi thought the premise was interesting but the author seemed more exited to talk about this cool world he thought of than actually tell me a story. I know people who would love this but since I enjoy books that lean much heavier into character development and a more human story that I can connect to, it just didn't work for me.