 Hello everybody, E here. He's in this office. I am rainy. My apologies. Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another book review. Today we are talking about David Coep's cold storage. The reason I picked this one up is because me and my friend Aaron Nash are reading a John Connolly book, then a fantasy novel, then a John Irving novel so I completely blanked there. And then as a palette cleanser before the next John Connolly we are reading a science fiction book. So it goes John Connolly fantasy John Irving and then sorry and then sci-fi. Anyways we just got through reading an Irving book, a widow for one year. I loved it. Probably won't do a review on the channel. Nobody cares what I think about that. Unless you do, I mean the book's older than with those look. If you want me to review it, I'll go ahead and review it. If not, whatever. Just tell me down there in the doobly-doo. So this was supposed to be our sci-fi pick. It's not sci-fi. This is easily a horror novel. It is about a fungus that turns people into mindless, well not mindless, but it controls their body so that it can spread. It's right out the gate, the first couple chapters of the prologue, whatever it is. Right out the gate, there's horror that I don't want to give anything away because when the thing happened I was like whoa but I'm in for some fun and I was. The only criticism I have about this book is a pretty big criticism and that is the writing. The writing is very very basic. You can tell David Kohup is a screenwriter. You can tell he's not used to describing places and things in a lot of detail. You could tell that he's not used to writing inner thoughts. There's a lot of alarms here that go off when you start reading. Now it gets better as the book progresses but I'd say probably the first 50 to 100 pages, there was very very little interior thought that wasn't very basically written. I guess is the best way I can put it. There was no real character development in that time but once you got past page 100 and things started kicking off then we got the character development whereas most stories will give you the character development beforehand. Excuse me. We'll give you the character development beforehand. He waited until the action started to start the character development. It was interesting if it was intentional. I don't know it just felt odd to me there but David Kohup if you don't know has written Jurassic Park, Spider-Man, Panic Room, and War of the Worlds. Let's see here. His work on screen has grossed over 6 billion worldwide so obviously that makes it that makes him able to write a good book right? It's a good book. I'm not going to pick on the dude. It is a good book but it really does feel like a first-time novelist book. I don't know if he's written other books under other names or anything like that. All I know is he's a screenwriter but it certainly did feel like a debut. Now I will say that this book is hilarious at times. The back and forth between Teacake, yes the or Travis between Teacake and Naomi is absolutely hilarious. The main guy, Roberto Diaz, the agent that is trying to literally save the world in this book. He's a really basic character and since the book opens up with him it's it's he's I don't know man it's just he and he's supposed to be a very basic character because he's military. You know he everything is supposed to be body books but then he goes off the boat. It's stuff happens. Now just let you know before I go into spoilers because I am about to go into spoilers. I'll warn you way ahead of time. I promise because I'm warning you now and it's way ahead of time but uh there's there there's okay I said there there's certain problems with convenience in this book. There's big big problems and there is a lot of filler for a book that speeds along this fast. Also you can tell he's a screenwriter because this book feels like a hour and a half, two hour long movie. Even though it takes much longer to read at least for me it did. It takes much longer to read but I'm gonna go ahead I'm gonna jump into spoilers. I'm gonna give this three stars and I'm gonna say that it's okay. You know I had fun with the story but the writing left a lot to be desired. So spoilers in three, two, one, spoiler time. Alright there's a part in this book toward the end when the book's only 308 pages. There is a point toward the end where Roberto gets pulled over by a cop. The purpose of this scene there is no purpose to it. The whole reason I believe that it's there is solely to pad the book because had they not had that scene in there and one other scene that I felt was completely superfluous if they didn't have those two scenes in the book then he wouldn't have had a full novel and they wouldn't have been able to charge people. What is it 2799? Yeah 2799 for the book because it's not a novel length. Of course people like Gaiman and King get away with things like that. You know charging 25 bucks for novella but you know David Koepp is not going to get away with that. In fact I haven't heard about this book anywhere. If my friend Aaron hadn't told me about it it probably never would have fell on my radar. I don't regret reading it but this scene was utterly pointless and utterly stupid. He gets pulled over by a cop while the cop is asking for his identification. Roberto sees that he's got this the three percenter tattoo on his arm. He's a national white nationalist. So Roberto decides this Hispanic man decides to play along and say that he's taking this nuke. There's a nuclear bomb in his backseat. He's just acquiring this nuke so that when he needs to use it he needs to use it and the cop says all right brother or sorry he literally says be on your way patriot or something like that. He calls him patriot. I'm just sitting there. It was dumb okay. You have to read it to get the to get the full idiocy of the scene. If you take the scene away it's never mentioned again. Nothing ever comes of it. He gets away scot-free. There is no point to the scene whatsoever and that alone dropped it down to three stars from me. Also I'm wasn't a huge fan of the basic writing but I mean he's a screenwriter. What are you gonna do? There were some great there was some great internal thought from the character teacake. He was my favorite or Travis. He's called both in in the book. There was some great internal dialogue from him or monologue whatever you want to call it. Some thoughts from him. Being in his mind was great. Everybody else was pretty pretty pretty basic and pretty basically written and once again a male writer follows in the trap of to make a female character interesting either they must be pregnant or have children as if there's no more to a woman than her biological you know the motherhood aspect of it. That gets annoying. It gets old real quick because almost every single male writer does it and then if they now if there's other character development I don't mind a pregnant pregnant woman or a mother in a book of course but if it's the only character development they get like their whole life is their kids and that's it that's when I and there are women like that but usually it's used as a crutch and it felt like a crutch in this one in lieu of actual character development. So have you read Cold Storage by David Coep? If you have let me know what you thought down there and then do we do whether or not you loved it whether or not you hated it. If you loved it or hated it let me know why you loved it or hated it so that we can have a discussion but until next time I have been E, you've been U, this has been another book review. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye bye!