Bird Box
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Bird Box
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Narrated by:
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Katharine Mangold
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By:
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Josh Malerman
About this listen
Josh Malerman’s debut novel Bird Box is a terrifying, Hitchcockesque psychological horror that is sure to stay with you long after reading.
Malorie raises the children the only way she can; indoors.
The house is quiet. The doors are locked, the curtains are closed, mattresses are nailed over the windows.
They are out there. She might let them in.
The children sleep in the bedroom across the hall.
Soon she will have to wake them. Soon she will have to blindfold them.
Today they must leave the house. Today they will risk everything.
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Critic reviews
‘BIRD BOX turns the old Hollywood cliché of facing down the demon inside out – then tears it into little pieces’
Daily Mail
‘A book that demands to be read in a single sitting, and through the cracks between one's fingers'
Hugh Howey
‘A lean, spellbinding thriller that Stephen King fans will relish.’
Publishers Weekly (STARRED REVIEW)
‘You wonder whether that brush against your shoulder was some unspeakable horror or merely a falling leaf’
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‘This completely compelling novel contains a thousand subtle touches but no mere flourishes – it is so well, so efficiently, so directly written I read it with real admiration’
Peter Straub
‘Nailbiting … will keep you gripped till the last chapter’
SciFiNow
'Unflagging suspense and ever-present dread’
Adam Nevill
'Uniquely disturbing, exceptionally compelling and beautifully written, I defy anyone not to read it in one sitting'
Sarah Pinborough
‘An unsettling thriller, earns comparisons to Hitchcock's The Birds, as well as the finer efforts of Stephen King and cult sci-fi fantasist Jonathan Carroll.’
– Kirkus (STARRED REVIEW)
I’d been told good things of his story, and it may be better read than listened to bearing in mind the above, but I found it slightly boring to tell the truth. You can’t imagine what they are going through, but apart from that there was little to care about really. I may be being slightly cynical there, but as most of the story is in the past you can guess most of what happens... and the narrative in the present doesn’t really have much to it regards drama.
Shame though, great idea and could’ve been more suspenseful I guess if I’d read it.
Not for me, nothing happened
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The best book I’ve ever listened to!
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This was a reread for me, but it was on our Goodreads group (A Million More Pages, you should totally join, it's awesome!) as a Book of the Month, so ya know...points!
Anyhoo....
This little Dystopian cracker is a creepy little mind fu*k because you don't really know why you are scared, I mean how could you while you are wearing a blindfold?
It all starts when seemingly normal people start to loose their sh*t and go mad, not in the "He's crazy" type thing, i mean totally bat shit crazy, they are normal one second, and the next they are killing their husband/wife/kids, and then turning the weapon on themselves.
When i say weapon i mean anything they have at hand, knives, guns, hammers, even their own teeth!!
This is happening quite far away in a different county, and it is being reported on the TV so it isn't anything to get really worried about.....
Until it starts happening closer to the U.S.A...
Then in your state, then in your home town!
People start to cover their windows/doors and are scared to look outside, as it seems to be that something out there is causing all of this, but the thing is, if you look.....you die!!
So Malorie is there...
In the house......
All alone......
She can't go outside.....
She can't look outside.....
She WON'T look outside............
Oh yes, i forgot to say that she is a few months pregnant!!!!
Because you are with Malorie throughout this creepy little read you start to feel the claustrophobia as you are not really sure what is out there, especially when you have to eventually open that door and go outside............
🎧🎧Audio narration for this book was perfect, Katharine Mangold really managed to make me believe that *I* was Malorie, and i was scared out of my pants!! 😱
Buckle yourself in, you're in for a Bumpy Ride!
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Birdbox
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Mallory somehow has to survive within this new world with her two kids, this really is their journey. They travel along a river to hopefully a new start.
There are some genuinely scary moments within this book but I’ve detracted a start as the book didn’t answer all my questions re the ‘creatures’.
Found the narration suited the book.
Intense and different take on the apocalypse
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