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Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)

Josh Malerman

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Prompt 25: A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't
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May 27, 2019 Melanie rated it really liked it

Shelves: thriller, suspense, dystopian, horror

Crazy and creepy and fast-paced - I saw the movie first, but I still couldn’t put this down, because it was so different and I needed to know what happened. There were some of those suspense novel things that annoy me (paragraph that’s a short clipped sentence, new paragraph that is just a short clipped sentence, repeat repeat repeat), and the sheer number of coincidences (a little hard to suspend disbelief about those) but it was interesting enough that I could overlook all that and just read a ...more

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Sep 08, 2020 Nicole rated it it was ok

Books like this leave me completely unsatisfied because they never explain the why. I realize that the real point is supposed to be the suspense - will she be able to row 20 miles blindfolded? But, eh. That really did nothing for me.

I was kind of bored early on but stuck with it because I wanted to know why people started going crazy and needed to be blindfolded. Sadly that never got answered.

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Aug 26, 2021 Jaime rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: horror, scifi-postapocolyptic-dystopian, audiobook, read-2021, 2021-book-hoarder-challenge

I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this read! I watched the movie when it first came out on Netflix, so I was already familiar with the story. I thought this would make the read feel rote and unsurprising. But instead, I was sucked in and engaged, despite knowing where they were going on the river and what would happen when they got there.

I think Malerman does a great job weaving the story together, jumping back and forth in time between the present and the time before the children were born. ...more

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Oct 28, 2022 Ana rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2022, horror, 2022-wriye, 2022-october

Not quite my tastes

But not so bad. There are definitely parts that are creepy. The idea of not being able to look at something is definitely a fear factor. It was surprisingly not quite as gory as I thought, though it is definitely a horror novel.

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