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Malorie (2020)

by Josh Malerman

Series: Bird Box (2)

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4842251,262 (3.73)4
Fiction. Horror. Suspense. Thriller. HTML: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 darkn
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3.5 ⭐ rounded up to 4.

I know I finished this read a while back, but with the end of the school year approaching I didn't have time to review this. But where to begin? There was so much I didn't like about this sequel and very little that I did like. I think the only that I could appreciate about this read was the fact the intensity that Malerman brought in Bird Box was present in Malorie as well.

However, after having time to think about this read, I honestly wasn't left with anything worth remembering. In the first book, there was such intensity and such uncertainty that the idea that this could really happen was ever present.

Overall, Malorie isn't such a bad read, but there so much lost potential. I think that Malerman could have made some risky moves and made a truly unforgettable book, but instead decided to make this fit into a cookie-cutter ending type book. ( )
  KrabbyPattyCakes | Dec 3, 2023 |
2.3

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  NicolasHoyle | Apr 23, 2023 |
I didn't really care of this book as much as the first one. I felt it dragged in some spots and the story flashed back to the same things a few different times. I did appreciate the ending of the story. ( )
  LVStrongPuff | Nov 30, 2022 |
Thank you to NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book in advance.
I am usually very wary of sequels, especially to books that were very successful, however "Malorie" by Josh Malerman is an excellent sequel to "Bird Box". ( )
  ComicGirl178 | Oct 1, 2022 |
I found Malorie to be an ok book to listen to. But to be honest, it paled in comparison to Bird Box. It was interesting to return and learn what happened to Malorie after the first book and Katherine Mangold did a good job narrating the book. I just wish the story had pulled me more. ( )
  MaraBlaise | Jul 23, 2022 |
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Fiction. Horror. Suspense. Thriller. HTML: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 darkn

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