Malorie

1: Bird Box ★★★★★
#2: Malorie ★★.5

Bird Box was a 5-star read for me, but Malorie didn't really live up to that. to be fair, this was incredibly readable and i got through it in just a day. the story itself felt repetitive and the ending was way too tidy. i had an inkling that this might just be a cash grab of sorts and my reading experienced really reinforced that. the weirdest part was Malerman's afterword/acknowledgements section where he goes on for paragraphs about how he's a ‘Prolific' which just means that he writes constantly and doesn't edit. idk.