A review by pwbalto
Bird Box, by Josh Malerman

5.0

IN addition to being one of the scariest fucking things I have read in a whole year of reading nothing but horror and picture books, Bird Box is just stunningly well-crafted. The narrative ducks back and forth between the present, when a woman and her small children leave the claustrophobic and tenuous safety of her home for an unknown destination, and the events leading up to the children's birth, when she and a small group attempt to defend themselves against a plague of madness that seems to have descended upon the world. It doesn't READ like the author wrote it with a chart in front of him - What Malorie Knows in one column and What the Reader Knows in another - but the way that revelations unfold for the reader is so natural and seamless...well I'm just saying, there's a science to this stuff, as well as art. NICE.