Black Mad Wheel

2.5 maybe? But that breaks my heart, since Bird Box is nigh unto perfection. I love love LOVE Bird Box. So I had high hopes for this one. But I feel like this one was getting close to a deadline and just needed to be finished or something. There's no magic in it. Every time something interesting starts to happen, the chapter ends, and we end up back in the hospital where Philip Tonka, our hero, is recovering from SOMETHING. And in the end, that something is lacking. The strange supernatural/unnatural element is sort of just left hanging. Much more could have happened in this book, but it just didn't. And now I am sad. So much potential for cool things to happen, but it all just petered out into a vague happyish ending.