438 reviews for:

Cold People

Tom Rob Smith

3.59 AVERAGE

chelseakado's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

smhinkle's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

threehourzsleep's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

sincerelyme_dani's review against another edition

4.0

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Not my usual genre, but I enjoyed this reading experience. It felt like my experience watching A Quiet Place- a slow, impending doom with enough twists to keep me engaged. There were several different viewpoints and time periods but the author tied up the loose ends satisfactorily.

lindseyslittlelibrary's review against another edition

3.0

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3.75 - loved this concept so much and the direction that it took. So many questions about what is morally "right" or not.

conklings's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark tense 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: No

scottcampbell's review against another edition

3.5

fast-paced

oliviacookie's review against another edition

4.5

challenging reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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This book, aside from having such an interesting premise and really pulling me in, was a beautifully-written thesis about the human condition.

Some of my favorite questions I explored while reading were: what keeps people going? What does love feel like, and how does it act? How would I choose to act in the most extreme and dire of circumstances? How do people change when pushed to their breaking point? How do I feel about genetic mutations when considering human species’ survival versus human compassion’s survival? 

Overall this book was so different than anything I’ve ever read but I’m happy to say I really enjoyed it. I would recommend to anyone interested in a sci-fi dystopian work that takes a close look at what makes humans human. Thank you to the “Currently Reading” podcast for the rec!!

claraemily's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

rachelpotter's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes