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Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)

Josh Malerman

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. Week 4: Published This Year

* Week 4: Introduction
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Jun 19, 2019 Jesse rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2019-around-the-year, 2019-popsugar

This book kept me up well into the night because I couldn't put it down. And then it was a little bit terrifying when I did finish it. This is one I would definitely read again. ...more

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Nov 05, 2018 KWinks rated it really liked it

Ah, I really loved this. I mixed it up and did some on audio and read some (mostly because I didn't want to waste gas driving around listening to another chapter, lol).
I'm late to the game on this one and I couldn't help but compare it to A Quiet Place. There are a lot of parallels here: death caused by the use of a human trait (sight and making sound), children in peril, agonizing home births, and microphones and amplifiers. Good god, I will never forget that chapter in the bar.
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Dec 04, 2014 Jessica rated it it was amazing

Shelves: science-fiction, horror, dystopia, 2015-reading-challenge, this-year, published-2014, initials-jm, five-stars

Sometimes, the scariest things are those which we cannot see. Bird box presents a dystopian future, in which to open your eyes is to go insane. What waits in the daylight? We don't know , anymore than Malorie, our main character. Malorie has lived alone with two children for the past 4 years. She has trained them to have extraordinary hearing. But now the time has come to leave...

Bird box is told in alternating viewpoints, with the events of the present alternating with the story of how the worl ...more

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