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Contágio by David Koepp, André Gordirro

6 reviews

aparker89's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Colonisation, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, Pandemic/Epidemic, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Blood, Death, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Vomit, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Gore, Medical content, Racism, and Body horror

fleurdujour's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

This was a pretty fun read, nothing about it was really scary though so it won’t keep you up at night or anything. Mostly just makes you wary of fungus and reads more like a military thriller. Sometimes it was a little hard to keep going because I didn’t care too much for the characters themselves. A lot about the characters just seemed pretty jaded, and most of the characters were fairly one dimensional.

Also starting the book off with the weird almost adultery was a total vibe killer.And another thing, Mike sucked and he killed a couple of animals so watch out for that because it wasn’t pleasant.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Vomit, and Gun violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Minor: Addiction and Alcoholism

zombiezami's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

4.25

Very fascinatingly written, but fumbled the epilogue

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Cursing, Classism, Animal cruelty, Gore, Alcoholism, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Suicide, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Gun violence, Confinement, Animal death, Violence, Alcohol, and Car accident

Moderate: Pregnancy, Stalking, and Abandonment

Minor: Mass/school shootings, Sexual content, and Adult/minor relationship

alba_marie's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Fast paced Sci fi thriller about a killer mushroom. This book is what happens if Dan Brown, Michael Crighton, and the writers of X Files made a baby. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Racism and Alcoholism

directorpurry's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Suicide, Gore, Animal death, Body horror, Violence, and Gun violence

lanidon's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

This book blew me away! It's incredibly unique in that it balances highly tense moments with almost heartwarming ones. The characters genuinely are lovable which makes the book even scarier for you. This honestly may be my new favorite thriller. It's such a perfect book. If you're seeing this, please read it

Edit upon reread: this book still holds a unique place for me. It's so rare to find a character driven thriller where the characters are not irredeemable jerks. This may be the only thriller to ever make me tear up. The plot is really good. The use of the perspective from the fungus riddled mind is phenomenal. I'll be trying to find something else like this for a long while

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Vomit, Animal death, and Gore

Minor: Alcoholism and Confinement