 Thanks for checking out this book review video. Yeah, so I'm changing pace. I know my last two ones were about Clive Barker Excuse me. I'm gonna adjust my sitting I know my last two ones were about Clive Barker. I'm not gonna continue on the Clive Barker train We're gonna get into something different So this one is an author who I've been reading a good amount lately what I can get my hands on of his stuff I've really been getting into it and it all started here with Josh Malerman's bird box Okay, so I know what people are thinking. They're thinking. Oh, you heard about the movie coming out Or you saw the movie and then we're like I'm gonna read this incorrect actually I've owned this book for a few years now and It's it was a situation where I read about this in rumorg which if rumorg magazine I did a review on rumorg rumorg magazine. Go back and check that out. I love that magazine I kind of break down all the good and bad about it, which there isn't much bad, but a lot of good But anyway, I read a review a bird box in I'll give you a closer up look at it But I read a review of it in rumorg and it sounded really interesting to me I'm like, wow that sounds cool. So I was like, I don't know This is Josh Malerman guy is but I'm gonna try this book out and it's not a huge book. It's 200 no, no, that's just acknowledgments 260 pages so really manageable. It's it's not like crazy long and it feels compact The story is very well packed together. There's not a whole lot of fluff. It really moves quite well. The characters are Really good like as much as they need to be to be developed today are developed to that to that length Josh Malerman's writing. I really dig his writing style. It's I Don't want to say kind of minimalist But I say that in the sense that he doesn't over-explain things he doesn't Over-describe the environment and stuff like that He's more ambiguous with with like who the person is he's talking about not giving too many identifying Factors of that person He kind of leaves it a lot up to your own imagination But gives you the narrative gives you the story and the dialogue Which I actually really enjoy because there are a lot of authors out there who will like really spell things out for you Like I said in my last video like George R. R. Martin Just like goes down to a tee like the paint on the walls and the grime on the floor And what exactly those things are like and you're just like I don't really need that like I can fill that in myself Or I just don't want to know that stuff So he's light on that type of stuff Which I like because he leaves a lot open to your personal imagination Which goes a long way to be honest He he gives you the story gives you the characters give you the dialogue and then you fill in the environment to a degree Which is awesome. I love that So like I said his writing is really good. He keeps things moving now the bird box thing. I Excuse me. I did end up reading this before the bird box movie came out on Netflix I had it well before I started reading it Then I heard that it was going to be a movie on Netflix and then well after the fact I saw it So it comparison between the two I guess I could do like an entire video of like really breaking down the comparison but Once again, the book is way better. The book is way Better, so if you're a person who saw the bird box movie and you enjoyed it read this book because you will Extremely enjoy this because it is way better. I'm not gonna give me spoilers on this story versus the movie story But I will say one thing that is not really a spoiler There is no relationship in the book Which is something that bothers me to the nth degree with movies a lot of the times They'll feel like if there's a female character. They have to have a love interest there has to be a love interest It happens with male characters, too But when it's forced and it was forced in the movie It just doesn't make any sense and I hate it and it's like we're just doing this because you feel like you have to do it It doesn't fit. It's dumb in the book It's not there and it makes sense that it's not there and I applaud Josh Mallerman For not going down that path when you easily could go down that path And that's one of the other things about him as a writer because I've read some of his other stuff He's a smart writer. What he gives you of the story is What you want basically it's the details you want. It's the story you want. It's interesting It's not here. Let me force this down your throat right now For the most part So yeah, but really super intriguing story really well done the fact that it's based on People not being able to see well, I'll just tell you real quick the overall there's something crazy that happened It's kind of like a post-apocalyptic type or deal or actually not post It's during this kind of apocalyptic or deal happening where people are being turned into kind of homicidal maniacs And they deduce that it has something to do with something people see if they see it So a lot of people are not looking outside So the book is very much based on no sight which works perfectly with you reading it because as a reader You don't actually have sight So the fact that the characters don't have sight and things are described to you in their terms You're just getting like what they hear and what they experience without the use of vision And that is a really awesome thing to employ with a reader I love it and that's actually one of the other reasons that for me The movie bird box didn't work all that well because when you take a source material That's about characters who can't see and it's in a reading medium, and then you take it to a visual medium There's a lot that gets lost there a lot in the storytelling in the story itself And in the overall ambiance and feel of it So the book is way better for the actual story the movie is I will say the movie is fine I didn't hate it, but since I had read the book I hated things about it because the book was so much better So yeah, but anyway, I would heavily heavily heavily recommend this book It is a very awesome read especially if you saw bird box the movie and liked it Because this will blow your mind in that case because there's so much extra stuff That they took out of the story that they should have definitely left in in the movie and it would have been awesome Like there's some legit twists So if you watch the movie and you're like well, I'm not gonna gain anything by reading the book think again Because there's stuff that wasn't in the movie that is awesome and it are twist things That are in this book read it. I'm serious and Josh Mallerman. Nice job, buddy Also newsworthy. I hear that he is going to be dropping. I think in October of this year a Book that is about the main character Mallory. I think it's just called Mallory this was kind of a surprise you just announced this recently within like the past month and Yeah, that should be interesting. I think it's a prequel book obviously, but I don't know to me Hopefully it's interesting. I trust his writing. I trust his storytelling. So I trust it'll be good But when I think from the perspective of what can that story really offer? I don't know because it's kind of like Stephen King has said Every character has a backstory. None of it is interesting and he's kind of right in that sense because when you're when you get a Story about a character and then you get the backstory after the fact you've kind of already filled in the blank on how they got To be the way they are you have high expectations of that So when someone else gives you that it usually falls short of your expectations So I don't know which I think you know that type of thing came into play with the last book I reviewed a little bit too, but anyway, yeah, awesome book. Check it out thank you for checking out this video and I have another one coming just so you know, it is another Josh Mallerman coming up and Yeah, so hit that subscribe for me really would appreciate it. Let people know about this if you like it Hit that notification bell so you know whenever I'm putting up a video Comments, please thumbs up would be nice. What books are you reading right now? Are you into Josh Mallerman because he's been pumping out books like pumping out books? I'll talk about that maybe a little bit more in the next video But yeah, let's talk. Anyway, thank you everyone for checking this out until next time keep it brutal