Reviews

Summer Frost by Blake Crouch

rustbeltredux's review against another edition

4.5

Holy moly… Blake Crouch is certainly becoming an absolute master of sci-fi thrillers and this little nugget is no exception. What if your life’s obsession destroys everything you hold dear? Your relationship, your family, and maybe even itself, all while hurtling the future of humanity off the edge of a cliff and out into the abyss. Whew!!

arsmagicalibrorum's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

wiltar4evr's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

unwashedtoast's review against another edition

challenging informative tense fast-paced

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

3.5

shannonigans19's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

mt_tana's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

zea_d_writing's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I read this story third during my read through the Forward collection. 

This…wasn’t great. The characters felt kind of like cardboard cutouts of the standard Sci-Fi movie characters but with a pride flag and a pink bow slapped on their heads. I’m always ecstatic to see queer women MCs and secondary characters but in this case…they just didn’t feel authentic or well fleshed out to me. 
As for the plot, its been done to death and doesn’t really offer anything new to the genre. It just felt like a rehash which got pretty boring.

I only hope that this isn’t indicative of Crouch’s writing as a whole, as I already have Pines in my kindle library and I’m intending on reading that next. 

noragrace89's review against another edition

5.0

It’s a Sci-fi that felt like an episode of Black Mirror but It reminded me of a darker version of the Robin Williams movie “Bicentennial Man”.
Loved every minute of that audiobook.

jenlejoy's review against another edition

mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

cultneophyte7's review against another edition

4.0

Way too similar to Ex Machina but I enjoyed it anyway. But them I'm also a sucker for soft sci-fi with human and romantic elements, so.