This is a horror/thriller which is the 2nd book in the Bird Box series. I enjoyed the book, even though I haven't yet read Bird Box or watched any of the tv shows. Malorie and her two children are now older and we go on a scary and creepy adventure with them, which is dangerous, with a lot of twists and turns. The audiobook narrator was perfect for the story, and she did a great job at keeping up the fast pace, and with building and holding the tension and suspense. If you are looking for a thrilling adventure which will creep you out and keep you on the edge of your seat, then this is the book for you.

Josh Malerman’s Malorie is a nail-biting follow-up to Bird Box that explores survival, hope, and maternal love in a terrifying world. The journey is filled with tension and heart, though it occasionally leans on convenient plot twists. While the ending felt a bit flat for me, the book as a whole is an engrossing read that fans of Bird Box won’t want to miss.

As the surprise sequel to one of my favourite horror thrillers of recent years, Malorie continues to explore the themes of a World where everyone is forced behind blindfolds or risk going insane at the sight of mysterious creatures Set 17 years after the events in Bird Box, this is for the most part a worthy and gripping sequel with its centrepiece set aboard what is dubbed 'the blind train' becoming a fantastic piece of imagination that kept me completely hooked throughout the meat of the story. The unfortunate effect this had was that when everyone disembarked the train, so did the story. Whilst the ending is neat and ties everything off that had been brewing across this book and certain events in Bird Box, it was in the end, simply too neat. The story spent considerable time on Malorie and her children's psychology, secrets and instabilties only for them to be largely forgotten by the end and even the antagonist who had pursued Malorie for so much of her life, reappearing as he did in a suitably nasty way to veer the story to a seemingly dramatic climax, was dismissed without fanfare and was relegated largely to a footnote. Add into this all the other plot hooks that were built up thrillingly, only to be quickly tied up in a few pages and it's easy to walk away unsatisfied after being so enthralled for the most part. The rest however is a fantastic piece of mainstream horror thriller writing. Malerman continuing to keep almost everyone blindfolded at all times, allowed him to expertly ramp up the tension by using the mere presence of the creatures to drive their fear, rather than any direct description. Not only does this allow the reader to deeper understand Malorie's obsessive ways, there is a unique resonation in not being able to see or describe the horror in mere physical terms. A fantastic ride for 270 pages, but the last 20 - although providing adequate closure - just tailed the story off with somewhat of a whimper.