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Bird Box - Schließe deine Augen by Josh Malerman

29 reviews

mlgallaher's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Self harm, Suicide, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Animal death

perfectcupoftea's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

hellokatya's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

i will admit, i watched the movie long before i ever considered reading the book, but i’m really glad i did.
i do wish that the story had been told in chronological order, but i can understand why it was told in two timelines. 
i thoroughly enjoyed how ominous and claustrophobic the book felt. it was truly unnerving and addictive. it was hard to put down once i got into it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Self harm, Violence, Blood, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Confinement and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Grief, Car accident, and Abandonment

bearystarry's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

So glad this ended the way it did.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

faithharsh's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Gore, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, and Pregnancy

foxybooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

5.0

Holy. Shit. Incredibly well written. Suspense. Mystery. Horror. So many feelings. So many fears. So many questions, most with horrifying answers, and the biggest question still lurking long after you've turned the last page. 

I spent 8 hours one day in early December 2019 reading the first half of this book. I couldn't sleep that night and had to put it away for two months. I picked it back up at the end of January 2020 and finished the second half in another 8 hour day. So I like to joke that "I finished it in two days but it took me two months to do it." 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Animal death, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Pregnancy

katyannreads's review against another edition

mysterious tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Self harm, Suicide, and Murder

chezler24's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Bird Box was a thrilling read. After finishing The Day of the Triffids, it was interesting to read another book where the loss of sight plays a part in the apocalyptic scenario at hand. Bird Box plays out a bit more intimately than the book I just compared it to. It focuses on Malorie, a woman who discovers that she is pregnant while these unusual, gruesome scenarios are popping up all over the globe. There is no hope for military intervention and Malorie has a small pool of characters she interacts with throughout her journey. The story is told where each chapter shifts back and forth on Malorie's timeline between the onset of the apocalypse where she is carrying the child and trying to find her way to a safe house nearby to the present scenario four years later where she is caring for hers and another woman's child (referred to as Boy and Girl throughout the majority of the events). The author handled this chronological back and forth well so the reader was never completely out of the loop or bored with understanding how things would come about in the flashback scenes. The book is a bit gruesome; however, it is a unique sort of horror because all of the scenes are either dictated from the point of view of someone who is only hearing and smelling what is going on or from the aftermath of a scene left behind ages ago. The absence of the character's sight does not hamper the reader's ability to experience what is going on in the scenes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Pregnancy

Moderate: Blood and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Grief

k8lynn's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This book was amazing, I loved the interweaving timeline and the storytelling throughout the entire novel. Everything came to a head within the last 60 pages and I couldn't stop reading. A great thriller. Some scenes are a bit gory,

including a descriptive dog death, suicidal tendencies, violence, and dark themes.

Definitely recommend to horror fans!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Gore, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

abbie_reads_books's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail