Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Cold Storage by David Koepp

8 reviews

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

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

corirarrick2's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Death

Moderate: Cursing, Gore, Animal death, and Gun violence

thehhugg's review against another edition

adventurous funny 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

3.75

What a fun ride. This was not high brow literature, but it wasn't trying to be; it was a fun, funny, sometimes gross romp.

I love unique twists on the zombie genre, and this was a good one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Medical content, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide and Gun violence

Minor: Confinement

the_great_gabsby's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

An amazing, page-turning thriller. Koepp uses cinematic story telling to keep you on the edge of your seat - reading the book feels like watching a block buster movie.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Body horror, Gore, Animal death, Violence, and Death

mothercoconuts's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny tense fast-paced

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

2.75

I wanted to like this so badly… Plot was unique and scary, and I loved the explanation of the fungus “from its own perspective” - super cool. 

BUT. For me personally, little bits of humor and the “quirky” characters took me completely out of the creepiness and tense feelings of the story and just made it okay. Soooo disappointing 😞 i also really didn’t care about the 2 main characters and 3rd “main” character either. Not likable to me, and I feel like I really didn’t even know the woman at all. 

**Audiobook: Also, Rupert Friend has a great voice for narration but DANG he talks fast!! I had to slow down my playback speed twice to keep up!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Animal death

Minor: Gun violence

ripxw's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Body horror

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