Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Cold Storage by David Koepp

4 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

theliteraryhooker's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

A fun, fast-paced sci-fi thriller that was exactly what I was in the mood for! Koepp's cinematic background definitely shines through and I could really see the action unfolding as I read. Fungal horror is always a good time and cordyceps novus is an especially terrifying idea. This book may not be high literature, but it's a damn good time! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Body horror, Suicide, Gun violence, and Animal death

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Animal cruelty

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