A DARK LIFE CONTINUES.......It all begins where BIRDBOX ended, The Jane Tucker School for the Blind. Two years have passed. "Malorie stands against the brick wall of a classroom. The door is locked. She is alone. The lights are off. She is blindfolded. Outside in the hall, violence has begun." Escape....the only answer.Many more years of remote isolation pass. Another dangerous journey is on the horizon. The creatures are everywhere. But there's a goal now....a reason to leave safety.Tom is ex...

3.5 Stars, rounded up. For some reason this time around I didn't like Malorie near as much, and actually found her to be irritating as she came across very hateful and closed-minded, which might very well have been Malerman's intent?? I can only imagine how someone, normally positive and optimistic, might change after 17 years of wearing blindfolds and living in fear! Now that both small children from Bird box are grown and 16-year-old teenagers, we get to know them and the book alternates in pe...

After enjoying The Bird Box a great deal, I was eager to get my hands on this sequel by Josh Malerman to see how things progressed. In a story that offers some interesting continuity and progression, Malerman did some things well and others that I could have done without. Malorie has been living at The Jane Tucker School for the Blind over the past number of years. With all the protections in place, her children, Tom and Olympia, have come to accept that this is how things will be forever. When

"You showed up uninvited and you took everything from us. You stole our sisters, our parents, our kids. You took the sky, the view, you took day and nights, A look across the street. A glance out a window. You've taken a view, every view, and with that, perspective." Malorie is book #2 in the Bird Box series and begins where Bird Box ends at the school for the blind. Malorie and her children leave amidst disaster there and find refuge at a camp where her children are teenagers and their day t

Creepy to the Freakin Max! Way to knock it out of the park Josh Malerman! You know that dark, ominous, foreboding feeling you get where the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end? YEAH, that happens in “Malorie” by Josh Malerman and it happens often. “Malorie” is the sequel to “Bird Box” and it’s a freaking doozie! That atmospheric feeling is omnipresent through much of this novel. I personally felt it as soon as the first “creatures” appeared. All I can say is: Holy Sh&t! “Malorie” is dar...

3.5 to 4 StarsNot quite as solid and groundbreaking as Bird Box. More of an extended epilogue to give a few more answers and perhaps a bit of resolution. I cannot say that I felt deeply satisfied with the experience, but it was interesting and will probably hold the attention those who really got into the mystery of Bird Box.This book was released in mid-2020 and I really wonder how much of it Malerman had worked out after the COVID-19 pandemic started. The discussions and opinions about blindfo...

Beginning at the same place we left off in BIRD BOX only a few years later at the school for the blind, MALORIE takes us on another wild ride!As with everything in the BIRD BOX world, the school does not remain safe for long. Once again, Malorie goes on the road and discovers a safe place to raise her family, all still living by the fold. They are comfortable for many years, (Olympia and Tom are now 16), until a man arrives are their camp. He says he's from the census, and has printed papers wit...

I’m thinking maybe this series just isn’t for me 🤷‍♀️ “Just because she’s taken every precaution to avoid the creatures, actual people have always been and will always be just as bad.” So I was in the minority with Bird Box. I loved it up until the end where it just wasn’t enough for me. When I heard there was a sequel with the potential for more answers I was intrigued. However this one still didn’t fulfil my need for more information!! (view spoiler)[ We don’t learn what these things are or h...

4.5 Stars * I got the hardback at my used bookstore! I lucked out and I loved the book! I thought the book was fantastic! It started out with shit going down right out of the gate! I didn’t expect the turn of events but loved it all the same!! I hope they make a movie out of this one. And I freaking love the cover! After some things happen, Malorie and the kids have their own home and the kids are teens!! They growed up 😃There are a few different revelations that I thought were awesome!! I won’t...

MALORIE: A BIRD BOX NOVEL ReviewThe version I read was a pre-ARC file that Josh received from his editor, but judging from the file, I believe this will be the final version of the novel. And what a novel it is. My objectives with this pseudo-review are twofold: a) I want to avoid any and all spoilers. The last thing I want to do is ruin this experience for any of you. b) I’d like to share my feelings about the book as clearly as I can. So with the above two objectives in mind, I’ve created a Q&...

Well that was pointless.

Review originally published at Cemetery Dance:https://www.cemeterydance.com/extras/...From my review of Bird Box in 2018:Our protagonist, Malorie, is young and a little naive. There is a global calamity going on and she seems very preoccupied with her own circumstances. As a reader, you are concerned with our protagonist’s perspective—can she navigate through this story safely for us? I wanted a more reliable, capable protagonist to be honest but this is a horror novel and I came prepared for th...

I loved this. I read this entire book in one day because I couldn’t put it down. After loving Bird Box I was pretty stoked about this sequel, but then I saw some mixed reviews coming in and I didn’t want to get my hopes up too high and get let down, but this book was everything I wanted it to be and more. This is a perfect mix of mystery, horror, and psychological horror and fear of the unknown. I love that this book takes place ten years after the events of the first book and we are following M...

Bird Box was a hit for me.. a five star read!This one was just ok in my opinion.It started out good and then... meh..Bird Box was just so intense and fast moving....not this one!I really wanted to give my fellowMichigander a rave review on this, so I’m sadit didn’t work for me!

Even someone who appears kindhearted might glance out a window. Even someone abrasive might never. The old constructs of good and bad have long been replaced with safe and unsafe. Are you a safe person? She thinks she is. She knows she is....Despite the behavior by some that she considered unfathomably dangerous only fourteen days ago, she also gets it. People in the new world fall into two categories: safe and unsafe. But who’s to say which lives the better, fuller life?I found Bird Box to be

When I first hear about one of my favorite apocalyptic horror read’s sequel is coming out I asked myself: is it really necessary? I was already happy with the outcome: even though it was evasive, questioning but still promising.Well, I’m getting my words back! I hate the movie adaptation of Netflix and I wish they won’t work with the same screenwriters team for this sequel: it is SO MUCH BETTER to be wasted! It’s still claustrophobic, dark, disturbing, irritatingly apocalyptic, pessimistic make

oooh, goodreads choice awards finalist for best horror 2020! what will happen?possible oblique spoilers for Bird Box. i wouldn't have thought that Bird Box needed a sequel six years later (and 2 years after the disappointing—YEAH, I SAID IT—netflix adaptation), but here we are and here it is and honestly? i thought it was great. when i first read Bird Box, the premise blew me away; answering the question, "what if lovecraft was actually scary?" by centering a horror novel around an unfaaathomabl...

The sequel we didn't know we needed...In Bird Box Malerman created a world just like our own, but one where horrors were in abundance just beyond every closed eyelid. These horrors were unknown and uncategorised but instantly infected those who witnessed them with an insanity that saw its only outlet in the destruction of the self or those around them.Malorie has lived in this world for twelve long years. Her two children are now in their teens and this reality has been the only one they have ev...

2.5 starsJust a word of warning, once you are finished reading this dont discuss it with anyone. I just had a long chat about the book with a friend and we complained so much about some of the irrational twists at the end it made me lower my rating.Basically the story started really strong and didn't end so well. Just like this horse ....The biggest appeal of the first book was the novelty of a world where you are not allowed to open your eyes. It was a creepy, slow burner that really played on

MALORIE by Josh Malerman is the sequel to my favorite read of 2021: BIRD BOX. Thankfully, birds of a feather flock together. Both books soared in the right direction: as heart pounding, five-star reads!MY TEASE…For Malorie Walsh and her two teens, Tom and Olympia, “life by the fold” (the blindfold) has become routine and one dimensional. The family’s purpose? To never forget that the creatures exist. To never “get lazy” because the creatures are waiting—every second, every minute, every hour of