It includes a scene of mass carnage that just gets coldly accepted, as if it's supposed to be a small price to pay. It's like the author just gives the finger to the reader.

After everything endured to get there, this ending is so, so bad. Parts are just too hard to swallow, others drown in what comes to feel like one long melancholy pity party. By 35% in the 'heroine' gets terribly hard to endure. 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. And rumors that the creatures themselves have changed into something even more frightening. Murmerings of monstrous inventions and dangerous new ideas. But getting her life back means returning to a world full of unknowable horrors - and risking the lives of her children again.īecause the creatures are not the only thing Malorie fears: There are the people who claim to have caught and experimented on the creatures. Malorie has already lost so much: her sister, a house full of people who meant everything, and any chance at an ordinary life. Someone very dear to her, someone she believed dead, may be alive. And with it, the first time Malorie has allowed herself to hope. And don't look.īut then comes what feels like impossible news. No solution.Īll Malorie can do is survive - and impart her fierce will to do so on her children. One glimpse of the creatures that stalk the world will drive a person to unspeakable violence.

Twelve 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. “ Malorie is even more of a psychological thriller than Bird Box, and all the scarier for it.” ( The Wall Street Journal ) 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, best-selling author Josh Malerman brings unseen horrors to life.

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