Malorie: The Sequel to the Global Sensation Bird Box
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.
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.
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Community Reviews
While I enjoyed "Malorie" I did have a hard time staying engaged in the story and found myself becoming bored often. There were times I wanted to skip parts, but kept going because I was afraid I might miss something that added to the story. There did seem to be a bit of filler to try to stretch the story out, but overall it wasn't too bad of a read.
(la foto è del sequel,ma io ho letto il primo)
Ci hanno fatto anche un film con la Bullock anche se non molto coerente con il libro
Un romanzo distopico che prende dall'inizio alla fine.
Trama libro
Malorie, è una ragazza incinta (credo rimasta incinta per errore perché del padre non si parla) che vive con la sorella. Sente al telegiornale che si sta diffondendo un virus, nato in Russia, che porta le persone ad impazzire e suicidarsi nei modi più improbabili.
Esce di casa con la sorella per un' ecografia e per strada vede gente buttarsi sotto ai camion, accoltellarsi o spaccarsi il cranio a testate. Li osserva e nota che in comune hanno tutti una cosa: uno sguardo di ghiaccio e occhi vitrei. Tornata a casa si informa e scopre che il virus si trasmette attraverso il contatto visivo diretto e proprio mentre lo scopre sente un rumore nell'altra stanza e poco dopo trova la sorella morta accoltellata nel bagno.
Malorie scappa in cerca di aiuto, sul giornale legge un annuncio di una casa in cui erano rinchiusi dei sopravvissuti e la raggiunge. Qui troverà degli amici con cui affronterà momenti difficili, tra cui il parto in casa. Tutti loro alla fine cadranno vittime di queste anime virali e Malorie resterà da sola, con il suo bimbo e la bimba partorita poco prima della morte dalla sua nuova amica e coinquilina.
In un momento di disperazione chiamerà un numero per le vittime che la ricontatterà per offrirle un'opportunità di salvezza chiedendole di attraversare il fiume con una barca e una benda sugli occhi per evitare potenziali rischi di contagio. L'impresa dura interi giorni, ma conduce la protagonista e i bambini alla salvezza: un istituto per ciechi.
Nulla da dire, bello. Però meglio il libro del film
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