Malorie
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3.7
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Josh Malerman
In the “fast-paced, frightening” (The New York Times Book Review) sequel to Bird Box, the inspiration for the record-breaking Netflix film starring Sandra Bullock, bestselling author Josh Malerman brings unseen horrors to life.NOMINATED FOR THE BRAM STOKER AWARD • “Malorie is even more of a psychological thriller than Bird Box, and all the scarier for it.”—The Wall Street JournalTwelve years after Malorie and her children rowed up the river to safety, a blindfold is still the only thing that stands between sanity and madness. One glimpse of the creatures that stalk the world will drive a person to unspeakable violence.There remains no explanation. No solution.All Malorie can do is survive—and impart her fierce will to do so on her children. Don’t get lazy, she tells them. Don’t take off your blindfold. AND DON’T LOOK.But then comes what feels like impossible news. And with it, the first time Malorie has allowed herself to hope.Someone very dear to her, someone she believed dead, may be alive.Malorie has already lost so much: her sister, a house full of people who meant everything, and any chance at an ordinary life. But getting her life back means returning to a world full of unknowable horrors—and risking the lives of her children again.Because the creatures are not the only thing Malorie fears: There are the people who claim to have caught and experimented on the creatures. Murmerings of monstrous inventions and dangerous new ideas. And rumors that the creatures themselves have changed into something even more frightening.Malorie has a harrowing choice to make: to live by the rules of survival that have served her so well, or to venture into the darkness and reach for hope once more.
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Author
Josh Malerman
Pages
320
Publisher
Random House Worlds
Published Date
2020-07-21
ISBN
0593156862 9780593156865
Ratings
Google: 4
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"I was in love with "Birdbox", the page-turning quality of it just amazed me. That's why it earned the coveted 5-star rating. It got away with the ending because I knew there would be another book "Malorie" published five years after the first. I thought that questions about the creatures would be answered more in-depth and therefore wrap up the series. That's just not what you get from it though, even Malerman states in the end that this is a novel for Malorie. I like that, don't get me wrong. Seeing Malerman's perception of how a woman changes when the whole world turns against her is fascinating. I just think the idea of the creatures was the more unique and interesting to me. I wanted to get an in-depth interworking of how they worked and why they drove people crazy. You get some vague information at the end, and it leaves you sort of understanding how they work. But the fact that the entire two novels are centered around the mystery of them led me to want a GREAT ENDING. I felt it NEEDED this to cement itself. I just didn't get that personally. I think that you can have the focus on a main character like Malorie in a much different setting and get away with it easily, I would have been fine reading a book like that. A mother struggles with raising her children when her trust has been smashed to pieces. But when you have the worldbuilding and setting you do, when you focus on the protagonist instead, I feel like you're wasting the potential of the world. That may be harsh but I really wanted a strong explanation for the creatures.
With a heavy heart, I give this novel three stars. I'll read more Malerman he's a fantastic author, one of my new favorites, this one was a big disappointment though."
"<b>HOLY ****!!!!!!!</b> That was a FANTASTIC sequel to Bird Box!!!!!!! I will admit that for the Majority of the book, I really hated Malorie as a character, her choices and the way she treated her kids ****** me off. However, she did Slightly (only slightly) redeem herself by the end!!! I absolutely ADORED Olympia though, and Loved hearing more about her!!!!! Overall I really REALLY liked this, this is still one of the best horror plots I've ever read!!!!!!"
"Really into the "book cover with a woman whose eyes are covered" thing this year.<br/><br/>All jokes aside, I did not enjoy this as much as I have the prequel. While most of the characters are the same, Malorie has been reduced to a near-mad paranoid abusive parasite who cannot and refuses to adapt to the new world - one where the creatures are normal. I found her annoying at best and frustratingly insufferable at worst. <br/><br/>The plot also seemed rather random with things happening at the most curiously opportune moments. In the end, it just left me feeling disappointed.<br/><br/>Overall meh."
"Wow. What an incredibly crafted piece of literature. I loved it even more than Bird Box. Tense and thrilling, this book made me feel so many different emotions. The Lovecraftian nature of the unfathomable monsters really worked for me. The characters are well developed and really fleshed out. Loved it!"
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