Most people dismissed the reports on the news. But they became too frequent; they became too real. And soon it was happening to people we knew.
Then the Internet died. The televisions and radios went silent. The phones stopped ringing
And we couldn't look outside anymore.
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[Malorie stands in the kitchen, thinking]***
(HarperVoyager, 27 March 2014, 305 pages, ebook, #popsugarreadingchallenge 2019, a book with a two-word title, bought from @AmazonKindle)
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I saw the movie starring Sandra Bullock earlier this year and loved it so I sort of knew what to expect with the book. In case you wondered, the movie is very close to the book. I decided to buy this book after I downloaded a free preview and really wanted to know what happened next. I made a good choice. I loved Bird Box. One of the things I love is how vague Malerman makes his description of what had happened to the world. Small details are revealed but there are no big explanations for why people have started to blindfold themselves. This makes the book all the more enjoyable and unsettling because there's a sense anything could happen. The narrative moves back and forth between the present with Malorie making a desperate trip to what she hopes is sanctuary and the past when the event happened exploring the experiences of Malorie and a group she lived with. So much happens in the book and the pacing is spot-on, not too fast you lose the thread of what's going on and not so slow you get bored. This is a fantastic book.
