A review by mxdshipwreck
The Cipher by Kathe Koja

5.0

Plowed through this in record time. Reminded me a lot of early Cronenberg; The Fly meets Videodrome meets Bug (the William Friedkin movie). Gross and bleak and not the kind of thing I'm generally prone to reading, but damn, I couldn't put it down. Scarcely a likeable character in the lot, although that didn't bother mer. The author has some of the best sensory details I've read in a long time, and cuts to the heart of her characters' psychology. A nice, creepy October read.