Bird Box

Five years after a mysterious entity drives anyone who sees it to immediate, deadly violence, Malorie Hayes navigates a ravaged world, attempting to survive with her two young children. Living in an abandoned house by the river, their existence is a perpetual game of blindfolded caution against the unseen. With dwindling supplies and the children now four years old, Malorie makes the desperate decision to embark on a perilous, twenty-mile journey downriver in a rowboat, completely blindfolded, relying solely on her wits and the children's acute hearing. Interwoven with this harrowing present-day odyssey are flashbacks to the initial days of the apocalypse, when Malorie, along with a diverse group of strangers, sought refuge in a house, struggling to understand the threat and decide who among them could be trusted. Josh Malerman's 'Bird Box' is a masterful and relentless horror thriller, plunging readers into a world of profound dread and forcing them to confront the chilling question of what terrifies us most when we cannot see it.