Just One Look Will Drive You Mad.

The unknown is frightening, people aren't afraid of the dark, they're afraid of what may be in the dark. That's what makes Bird Box so unnerving, it's the not knowing that eats at you.

There's something so terrible outside that one look at it will drive you mad and make you violent and suicidal. The only thing the public knows is that they need to stay inside cover their windows and lock their doors and if they have to go outside they need to wear a blindfold and keep their eyes closed. 

Malorie and her children are the only survivors out of a small group of people living together in a stranger's house. It's been four years since the night she gave birth and a massacre that wiped out all of her housemates. In those four years she's been training her children to use their ears instead of their eyes to survive. She's spent those years planning an escape to a potentially safer place to live. As she travels down the river to find the safe haven she's stalked by wild animals and the creatures that should not be looked at. 

This book is ripe with tension and gave me a suffocating trapped feeling that only Daphne du Maurier's The Birds made feel. Bird Box is effective in making you feel the fear of being alone in a world gone mad, not even animals are safe in this new world, by something that has no name shape or face.