The three of them set out in a rowboat down a river near their house headed for a mysterious destination. Since birth, she has trained her children, a boy and girl who are now four years old, to listen, and they can identify almost any sound. The story actually begins with Malorie, who is now alone except for her two children, making the fateful decision to leave the house that has been her home for the past four and half years.

At her destination, she meets a houseful of other people who become her closest friends for the next several months until she gives birth.

After her sister goes mad and commits suicide, Malorie finds an ad for a safe house in the paper and follows the directions to get there. The story's main heroine is a young woman named Malorie who unexpectedly finds herself pregnant just as these creatures invade the Earth. Those who've managed to stay alive have done so by remaining indoors and covering all their windows with heavy drapes or blankets and only going outside wearing blindfolds. It's been speculated that the creatures are so advanced that the human mind can't comprehend them and thus fractures. That's because anyone who gazes upon them almost instantly goes mad and kills others and/or themselves. The world as we know it has been devastated by mysterious creatures, but no one really knows what they look like.

However, being the type of person who typically prefers to read the book prior to watching the movie version, I haven't seen it yet, but I immediately put the book on my TBR list. I'm always up for a post-apocalyptic story and that's exactly what it is. Reviewīird Box hit my radar because of the Netflix film that's based on it, which caught my attention. As they make the journey, Malorie thinks back on the events that brought them to this place, and the farther they go, the more convinced she is that something is following them, but she has no idea exactly what it might be or how much danger they might be in. But it means traveling twenty miles downriver in a rowboat, blindfolded, with only her children's highly trained ears to guide them. She's been living in an abandoned house near the river that she once shared with several other people, and she's been waiting for the day when she can leave in search of a place where they'll be safer. Now only a handful of scattered survivors remain and among them are Malorie and her two four-year-old children, a boy and a girl. That's because anyone who gazes upon them almost instantly goes insane, committing violence against others or themselves. Evernight Teen Summer Kick-off Blog HopĪbout five years ago, the Earth was invaded by mysterious creatures, yet no one really knows what they look like.Cosmo Red Hot Reads from Harlequin Launch.

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