Where do the three in the morning fog protection on the path remains just as unclear as a statement for the previous hermit life. On a second narrative level Josh Malerman describes only in retrospect, how the world has changed in the previous years but also limited here to the perspective Malorie. We learn, for example, based on media reports, as in Russia suddenly strange incidents have occurred that have gradually spread to America and increasing numbers of people driven to madness, to the Company's continually collapsed gradually. And the more you read about these enigmatic and above all extremely frightening phenomena, the greater the feeling of acute discomfort with the reader. It is surprising that the scary setting, although Josh Malerman most of the time very cold and distant tells perhaps but also makes this very sobriety the setting of Bird Box more frightening. Even if in the past tense story arc and the fact apprehended groups scenario once briefly flashes a little humanity, so the coexistence of survival fighter is still dominated mainly by mistrust and tension. However, this group represented dynamics contributes much to the tension of the story.
So intense, the atmosphere of the book but also is: Bird Box puts on a very specific and subtle way of horror and will probably even make hardly the taste of the masses, despite some quite dramatic scenes. Especially the very minimalist action should divide the minds, because, strictly speaking, one can reduce the story that frightened people hide from the outside world or with blindfolds trip through the area. But if you set it that you are not dealing here with a lurid novel splatter and can get involved in the story, Bird Box is really able to create a mental cinema of the most frightening kind. Because above all the uncertainty there is in this book, which causes a gradually into madness once captured by the gloomy atmosphere, one can simply no longer escape the extreme suction effect of the novel. But even if you took 95% of the book outstanding, Josh Painter Mans work still poses a huge stumbling block: the end. Just when you did seek desperately to find an explanation for the whole thing through the pages, the end of the story extreme potential for disappointment. The author leaves namely much room for interpretation and provides far answers to all questions pressierenden. The expected and probably hoped Knalleffekt remains off, but you have might also ask whether such a free circuit in this case may not even better than a resolution that all mind games and salaried attempts at explanation in the reader's mind the high expectations may ultimately do not satisfy. I can live very well with the end in this form and attach any Bird Box the heart, which is like to experience psychological horror at its best after a long time finally a book that was really creepy.