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Apr 28, 2022
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I didn't read Bird Box as it sounded like it was more horror than I like to read. My book club is reading Malorie so I got the audiobook which I'm glad as I don't know if I would have been able to finish reading it myself. Not because it was too scary, but because it was too scary. Very little is going on until the last 2 hours of the book (the audiobook is just under 9 hours). The first 7 hours are just Malorie being a paranoid, overprotective parent (I do give her credit for keeping kids alive
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Twelve years after Malorie and her children (now teenagers) rowed to safety, they are living alone in a former summer camp. News comes that Malorie's parents may be alive, so she decides to take a risk to find them. She encounters an enemy along the way and must come to terms with the fact that her teens are growing up. I think I liked Bird Box better than the sequel. This book wrapped up a little too quickly and neatly for me. I expected it to be more messy or tragic.
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