Review: Bird Box

Bird Box by Josh Malerman
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I loved that book! The plot was original, I had never read something like this before. We follow Malorie who is a survivor of some kind of apocalypse. There are creatures out in the world who makes people go crazy mad with violence if they see them. It goes back and forth between when Malorie was pregnant and everything started to four years later when she has to leave her home to go somewhere safer with her two kids while being blindfolded. I would not categorise it as horror but it was definitely creepy and terrifying to imagine yourself in her position. Not knowing if the people you encounter are insane and want to hurt you or if they are just like you, frightened, trying to survive in this terrible world. Living in the dark for the rest of your life, cut off from everyone else, no water systems, no phones, no internet, with creatures luring outside waiting for you to see them and go mad. If you are in the mood for something eerie, then I suggest you pick up this book.

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