Minimalist Horror ensures disturbing thrill with intense suction

Minimalist Horror ensures disturbing thrill with intense suction

Bird Box (Hardcover)

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There are books that make it the simplest means to create a thrilling atmosphere and to captivate their readers and Josh Painter Mans debut novel Bird Box is without any question to this category. There is a protagonist, hardly more than a handful of minor characters, and strictly speaking is not much more than a single venue, namely the house, lead in the Malorie and their children in four years a life of loneliness, fear and strict self-control. Just the idea that two young children have never seen before in her entire life to the outside world, is appalling and is even more disturbing when one learns how strictly the boy and the girl in those four years was brought up. Again and again they were played blindfolded most diverse sounds, to perfect the hearing and prepare children to the dangers of the outside world; failed or abandoned attempts were always rigorously punished with deprivation of food or similar methods. Despite these educational hardness but you can feel from the first page to the enormous love Malorie with their children, even though the two four-year-olds do not even have names. Malorie is convinced that only the relentless training and the absolute obedience cause their children and survive the day which has come after all these years finally.

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.

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