Reviews tagging 'Stalking'

Bird Box by Josh Malerman

5 reviews

mckensi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Stalking, Animal cruelty, Blood, Car accident, Gore, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Excrement, Chronic illness, Pregnancy, Animal death, Vomit, Confinement, Death of parent, Suicide, Body horror, Mental illness, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic

brooke_pearson's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

This book is written so beautifully!! From his wonderful description (other than the people's appe rances, I'll admit those weren't awesome) to how well he blended the past and present together in this book, Malerman has to be one of my new favorite authors. I can't wait to read the sequel and any other books he has in store.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Death, Grief, Mental illness, Suicide, Body horror, Violence, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Cursing, Death of parent, Child death, Vomit, and Stalking

Minor: Alcohol

This might technically count as a spoiler, but I'm really just using this as a trigger/content warning. Pages 180-184 have a dog going crazy and killing itself, and while Malorie can't see it, the sounds are descriptive and you may need to skip it if that's not something you can handle (I personally could barely do it). If you do decide to skip this chapter, here's a happier version of what happens so you don't miss out on anything:

Malorie paints the windows of Cheryl's car black and, using a map and the cars odometer, she eventually finds her way to the bar (with a lot of trial and error). While Victor, sadly, saw one of the /things/, she is able to take some supplies like microphones and likely some speakers off of the bars stage and take them back to the car. She then returns home and is able to use those things for the security system.

dev921's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Pregnancy, Animal death, Excrement, Gore, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pandemic/Epidemic, Murder, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Stalking

viireads's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death, Pregnancy, Stalking, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, and Gaslighting

wrensreadingroom's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Medical trauma, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Body horror, Gore, Alcohol, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Death, Blood, Death of parent, Confinement, Child death, Cursing, and Grief