Book Review

Chiller (1993)

EW's GRADE
C-

Details Writer: Sterling Blake; Genres: Fiction, Mystery and Thriller

Chiller reads like death warmed over. When cryonics finally works so people can be frozen for years and then revived, a religious lunatic decides that these scientists are playing God and must be stopped permanently. This novel should be riveting, since it has murders interrupted at crucial moments, a serial killer, lovers who defy death, and scientists who fill a church with multicolored cockroaches. But it's sluggish, as if it has been cooled down in its own freezer. C-

Originally posted Jul 27, 2009 Published in issue #181 Jul 30, 1993 Order article reprints

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