Book info

• Title Bird Box
• Author Josh Malerman
• Year 2014
• Genre Horror

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.

Thoughts

I never got round to watching the film of this but I’m often enticed to buy the source material that films are adapted from, which is how this ended up in my to read list for so long. It’s a pretty good read, a pretty simple, if devastating idea, and although it’s obviously a dystopian future, there’s something quite contained and therefore more tense about the whole thing. Not a bad read, maybe I’ll get round to the movie sometime soon.

Rating: 3 / 5