Color me surprised when I picked up Josh Malerman’s Bird Box, expecting more of the same, and discovered that post-apocalyptic novels are not quite dead yet. The post-apocalypse genre saturates so much of pop culture these days that I try my best to avoid it whenever I can. Very bad choice.So, slow beginning, decent middle, muddled ending, but still entertaining enough. Having wrapped up Track B, the rest of the book is spent in Track A and seems anticlimactic if not outright pointless.Side note: I found it amusing that I was willing to suspend disbelief about a vaguely described alien invasion, but it constantly threw me out of the story that the woman only refers to the children as Boy and Girl. When it finally comes, it is fairly exciting, if way over the top. Everything about Track A basically tells us that Track B is not going to end well, but we spend much of the book waiting to find out how. Track B is set four or five years previous as the apocalypse begins to unfold and the woman seeks refuge with a group of strangers. Track A is a post-apocalyptic future where a woman struggles to transport two young children from one refuge to another. I decided to read the book before watching the new Netflix movie sometime in the next few weeks.I think this book suffered by jumping back and forth between two tracks.
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