A review by mexcryptid
Cold Storage by David Koepp

3.5

Cold Storage succeeds in giving readers a suffocating ticking clock, a perilous race to stop a somewhat-sentient fungus from twisting mankind into world-ending spore factories. Where it falters, at times, is in the presentation of its shifting points of view. Early on, I struggled with tracking whose perspective we were in. While later chapters provide clear-cut breaks by chapter separations, earlier chapters shift between paragraphs, making for a destabilizing first impression. Additionally, while I was excited to read a Crichton-esque, science-driven thriller with a Latino at its center, I was disappointed to realize Robert Diaz was a much smaller part of the book than the dust jacket led me to believe. This isn’t to say the rest of the cast isn’t made up of strong characters, in fact, Teacup and Naomi are great outsider perspectives to help build the books tension. All in all, Cold Storage is a solid entry in the growing category of the cordyceps-will-end-life-as-we-know-it genre.