Malorie - Josh Malerman

Malorie

By Josh Malerman

  • Release Date: 2020-07-21
  • Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
Score: 4
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From 211 Ratings

Description

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 Journal


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. 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.

Reviews

  • Superfluous

    2
    By MeNotYou1972
    Not horrible, but unrewarding and unnecessary. Maybe I shouldn’t have read this and Bird Box back-to-back, but just as the author seems like he got bored with writing the story near the end, that’s how I felt reading it.
  • Rushed Ending

    3
    By geothejungle
    Malerman picks up this fantastic story and sprints with it. Unfortunately the third act suffers as his sprinting becomes frantic and his failure to flesh out key plot points left me wondering how he decides to carefully craft these story lines only to tie them up with a paragraph or two (the fate of ‘Henry’, the story of ‘Sam’ are notable examples). I can’t help but think the next Netflix script deadline had something to do with the expedited conclusion to this honestly fabulous tale. RE: the addendum- I have read most of Malermans books, usually in a day easily. I think it’s great that Malerman considers himself a Prolific but I don’t really see why his somewhat self aggrandizing diatribe needs to fill space in this book. Maybe should have saved it for the Vanity Fair spread (photos by Leibovitz natch)
  • The story feels like it ends ½ way through.

    2
    By Tjovian
    I really enjoyed reading Birdbox, so my expectations for this book were high. Sadly, it seems as though the author was getting bored with the world he created, so when the story was only half done he raced to tie everything up in a quick little bow and call it “finished”...
  • It gets rushed

    2
    By tc_sting
    Clearly the author was on a publisher deadline. The books starts fresh with the obvious and expected— the world is falling apart again. And the middle begins to develop something tangible. But the last 30 pages read like the author had to cram in last minute Saturday morning after being guilty of enjoying a wild Friday binge. It ends badly and speaks volumes that this author is a fraud

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