"On every level, Cold Storage is pure, unadulterated entertainment." --Douglas Preston, The New York Times Book Review For fans of The Martian , Dark Matter, and Before the Fall comes an astonishing debut thriller by the screenwriter of Jurassic Park : a wild and terrifying bioterrorism adventure about three strangers who must work together to contain a highly contagious, deadly organism that could destroy all of humanity. They thought it was contained. They were wrong. When Pentagon bioterror operative ...
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"On every level, Cold Storage is pure, unadulterated entertainment." --Douglas Preston, The New York Times Book Review For fans of The Martian , Dark Matter, and Before the Fall comes an astonishing debut thriller by the screenwriter of Jurassic Park : a wild and terrifying bioterrorism adventure about three strangers who must work together to contain a highly contagious, deadly organism that could destroy all of humanity. They thought it was contained. They were wrong. When Pentagon bioterror operative Roberto Diaz was sent to investigate a suspected biochemical attack, he found something far worse: a highly mutative organism capable of extinction-level destruction. He contained it and buried it in cold storage deep beneath a little-used military repository. Now, after decades of festering in a forgotten sub-basement, the specimen has found its way out and is on a lethal feeding frenzy. Only Diaz knows how to stop it. He races across the country to help two unwitting security guards--one an ex-con, the other a single mother. Over one harrowing night, the unlikely trio must figure out how to quarantine this horror again. All they have is luck, fearlessness, and a mordant sense of humor. Will that be enough to save all of humanity?
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When a super infectious strain of virus is let loose from its containment facility it could spell the end of the world as we know it. Can it be stopped before it's too late?
Cold Storage is written by David Koepp, a screenwriter and director who has worked on some impressive titles including Jurassic Park, Spider Man and Mission Impossible. It's a high standard to be spelled out on the opening pages of the book and I'm not sure it was perhaps a good idea to set expectations so high so soon in. On the one hand, the book feels very visual and cinematic, it jumps about from character to character and is quite dramatic, you can almost hear 'and the camera pans to...'. I loved how the spread of the virus was depicted and the dread you felt from characters making poor decisions.
However, the scope of the book was a lot smaller than I was expecting. You can sum the entire plot up in a sentence and I didn't feel there were any good twists or interesting moments to keep you invested. It felt quite predictable at times - a very standard virus apocalyptic-style thriller which is a very over saturated market at the moment (and I've certainly read a lot better!) Even the characters didn't really enthral or capture my attention. The whole thing also felt very unrealistic and I didn't really understand how sometimes the virus could be capable of 'crawling' towards people at super fast speed, almost like a creature and other times a main character would get right up close to it and be fine. It also seemed to be airborne sometimes but not always - whichever was most suitable for the plot!
Many reviews and blurb snippets have mentioned the comedic elements but I must admit it didn't make me laugh at all. I also didn't really enjoy the romance side-plot and felt the ending was far too cliché and neat for me. I would have perhaps liked a proper movie 'dun dun duuuun' twist moment at the end and was a little disappointed there wasn't one!
Overall Cold Storage comes from a high pedigree but felt like a distinctly average take on an over saturated genre that had nothing new to add to the table. Thank you to NetGalley & HQ Stories for a chance to read the ARC in exchange for an honest review.
