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Bird Box

(Bird Box #1)

Josh Malerman (Goodreads Author)

4.02 · Rating details · 109,012 ratings · 14,517 reviews

Something is out there, something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse of it, 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 remains, including Malorie and her two young children. Living in an abandoned house near the river, she has dreamed of fleeing to a place w ...more

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Hardcover, 262 pages

Published May 13th 2014 by Ecco (first published March 27th 2014)

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Is BirdBox going to be made into a movie? Listened to this as an audiobook and was blown away by the story and the superb narration.

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Aug 23, 2017 Adam Andersson rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Det är något som inte riktigt stämmer. Folk börjar begå hemska mord och ta sina egna liv på kreativa sätt. Kanske inget att oroa sig för? Det kanske bara är enskilda fall? Men när rapporterna hela tiden ökar, när händelserna kommer närmare ditt land, din stad, din gata, då går det inte att ignorera det längre: folk ser någonting, ser någonting som gör dem galna. Men vad är det egentligen som rör sig där ute?

I Bird Box får vi följa Malorie i två parallella berättelser: hennes erfarenhet av när a ...more

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Dec 11, 2018 Carolinewanlundgmail.Com rated it liked it

So scary. Hjärtat klappade första halvan av boken. Andra halvan ville jag bara veta vad som skulle hända.

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Jan 03, 2019 Elin added it · review of another edition

Jag kan inte sätta betyg på den här. Gillade inte alls sättet den var skriven på emellanåt, men var ändå helt tagen av storyn och ville bara veta hur det skulle gååå. Så ja, den engagerade mig och jag tyckte att den var väldigt obehaglig, men inte helt nöjd ändå.

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Jul 10, 2019 Anna rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Malorie lever i ett trevligt hus tillsammans med sin syster. Så börjar nyheterna berätta om märkliga saker som händer, folk blir galna utan orsak och attackerar andra människor. Först oroar hon sig inte för det händer så långt ifrån dem. Men det kommer närmare och en dag förändras Malories liv då det hemska kommer för nära. Alla som ser det okända blir galna.
Så Malorie blundar för att överleva. Men hur länge kan hon orka? Kommer hon hitta andra människor hon kan lita på? Eller har alla blivit g ...more

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Mar 01, 2018 Braxwall rated it really liked it

Bra spänning! Med en osynlig fara utanför knuten brakar samhället samman och mänskligheten reduceras till att leva i små utspridda öar. Det är utgångspunkten för pusslet som läggs i detta klaustrofobiska kammarspel.

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