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Bird Box by Josh Malerman

4 reviews

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

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Blood

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,

Spoiler

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

Definitely recommend to horror fans!

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Content Warnings

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

purplesky25276's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

10 out of 10!! This book was so much better than the movie! Oh! And you have to listen with the audio book! This narrative for the audio will have you so caught up in the story that it will make it harder to put down. This book gave a wide range of emotions. It was like I was right there with the Malorie!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Car accident, Body horror, Death of parent, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Genocide, Domestic abuse, Confinement, Blood, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Animal cruelty, Abandonment, Gore, Murder, Torture, and Suicide

wrensreadingroom's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Medical trauma, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Body horror, Gore, Alcohol, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Death, Blood, Death of parent, Confinement, Child death, Cursing, and Grief