Bird Box (Bird Box, #1) in Crazy Challenge Connection

Nov 05, 2014 Steven rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: horror, read-in-2015

Great book. Built tension well, dropped hints at what was to come, had an actual ending that told you enough but left you thinking/wondering/etc.

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Oct 26, 2017 Ashleigh rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: series-books, horror

Waiiit.. what????

Bird Box follows Malorie, a woman living in a post-apocalyptic world where when people look outside (be it through windows, or opening their eyes outdoors), they suddenly go mad and kill themselves in brutal violent ways. Malorie has been living in a house with boarded-up windows for the past 4 years by herself, with only 2 young children for company. The two young children were born after the pandemic started and know only the walls of the house. One day, Malorie decides she ne ...more

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May 25, 2018 BookishStitcher rated it liked it · review of another edition

3.5 stars

In a world where seeing the wrong thing can drive you mad, can drive you to suicide being a pregnant woman, as everything collapses around her, feels insurmountable to Malorie. This book takes place in a post apocalyptic tale about something entering our world that gives an advantage to those who are blind because they cannot be affected by the creatures.

I thought this book was going to be terrifying, but very rarely did it scare me any. I think I would have liked it more if I had read ...more

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Jan 24, 2018 Jessie the Bibliophile ♥ rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: ebook, mystery, dystopia, post-apocalypse, horror, thriller, adult, library, owned, read-in-english

Oh man, I really don't know... I think I rather liked this book, but I can't quite make up my mind. I'll give it 3 stars for now, maybe I'll come back and change that later...

I think part of my problem is that I just read a book that has a lot to do with being confined in a house because the outside in unsafe (Life as we knew it, Susan Beth Pfeffer). That whole aspect felt very similar and wasn't what I would've liked to read about so soon again.
Another thing is I just couldn't warm up to Malori ...more

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Oct 14, 2022 Carissa Brown rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: sci-fi, adult, audiobook, post-apocalyptic

I could not put this book down.

Mallorie just found out she was pregnant when the world she knows comes to and end. It’s just her and her sister until it’s not. Mallorie knows she can’t make it in her own. She sets off to find other people.

Mallorie comes across a group of survivors. They’ve learned how to get water while blindfolded, they keep the windows boarded, and they have food. She knows she can join this group. However when someone new joins the group problems arise.

Mallorie has to figu ...more

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