Review: Bird Box

Bird Box by Josh Malerman
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

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What's scarier than desolation you cannot see, and destructive madness you cannot fight nor unsee?

This book is bone-chilling and terrifying. Usually, if weekdays are swamped, I finish a book during weekends when there's peace, my favorite chair to settle into, and no internet connection. With this book, that didn't happen. I had to take several weekends, because it got too frightening to the point that I kept imagining creatures staring at me through my windows while I read, willing me to look at them.

This book isn't for the faint-hearted. It's violently graphic, and unbearably maddening. I cannot imagine living life the way Malorie did. Having the freedom of looking at the world and going deranged because of it. Having your freedom to see snatched away from you by unnatural creatures absolutely unaware of the damage they do to the world. The absolute hopelessness of their circumstances was perfectly delivered because this book offers no answers about these lethal creatures--how they came nor what they are, and how to defeat them.

Review: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2 by J.K. Rowling
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

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Actual Rating: 3.8 stars
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First of all, I am very aware of the fact that I bought this book four months ago and have read it only now. YES. I am fully conscious of that fact. In my defense, I have so many books on queue; books that have been on my shelf waiting patiently for a long time. It seemed very unfair for my other books to delay them just because a Harry Potter book came out. (No, I'm not weird.)

1. Because the book is in a screenplay format, it became hard for me to appreciate it. It became hard for me to take it seriously. No! I do not mean this in a way to offend or demean the laborious and precise art of screenplay writing! I only meant that I was so used to reading narratives in novels, especially when it comes to Harry Potter. Even the fanfiction I read are narrative in form. So TCC (The Cursed Child) definitely strayed away from that tradition. I was so unused to reading a new story of Harry's life in a format so unfamiliar and...well, trimmed.