"[A] chilling debut . . . Malerman . . keeps us tinglingly on edge with his cool, merciless storytelling. . . . This earns comparisons to Hitchcock's The Birds , as well as the finer efforts of Stephen King and cult sci-fi fantasist Jonathan Carroll."-- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Written with the narrative tension of The Road and the exquisite terror of classic Stephen King, Bird Box is a propulsive, edge-of-your-seat horror thriller, set in an apocalyptic near-future where an unimaginable, incomprehensible, ...
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"[A] chilling debut . . . Malerman . . keeps us tinglingly on edge with his cool, merciless storytelling. . . . This earns comparisons to Hitchcock's The Birds , as well as the finer efforts of Stephen King and cult sci-fi fantasist Jonathan Carroll."-- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Written with the narrative tension of The Road and the exquisite terror of classic Stephen King, Bird Box is a propulsive, edge-of-your-seat horror thriller, set in an apocalyptic near-future where an unimaginable, incomprehensible, and invisible foe lurks in the shadows--now available as a Harper Perennial Olive Edition Something is out there . Something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from. Five years after it began, a handful of scattered survivors remain, including Malorie and her two young children. Living in an abandoned house near the river, she has dreamed of fleeing to a place where they might be safe. But the journey ahead will be terrifying: twenty miles downriver in a rowboat--blindfolded--with nothing to rely on but her wits and the children's trained ears. One wrong choice and they will die. And something is following them. But is it man, animal, or monster? Engulfed in darkness, surrounded by sounds both familiar and frightening, Malorie embarks on a harrowing odyssey--a trip that takes her into an unseen world and back into the past, to the companions who once saved her. Malerman's breathtaking debut novel is a horrific and gripping snapshot of a world unraveled that will have you racing to the final page.
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Bird Box, in my opinion, was a bit challenged by the very nature of its creatures. You really never get a good description of them due to the fact that any time a character sees them, that character swiftly checks themselves out due to insanity. If anyone wants to stay alive, they absolutely must keep their eyes closed. This leaves it entirely up to the reader's imagination. That can be a good thing or a bad thing. Fear of the unknown and all that, I get it. Some readers, myself included, tend to like a really good description of the monsters in a good horror to really immerse themselves. I have to say, this writer handles it so well. Even without having any description whatsoever, I felt immersed wholly into the main character and her various companions' ordeals. This novel so vividly describes the paranoia amongst all the characters and fear felt during encounters. Suspense oozes out of every single word in this novel. Even when being deprived completely of one sense throughout an entire novel, I felt like I had such a very detailed picture in my mind of everything going on, and kept feeling absolutely absorbed into reading more.
