Bird Box

You always have to be careful with your expectations when starting a book because a book can either meet them, fall short of them, or exceed them, so it is best you go in with no expectations at all. I, of course, had expectations, I had heard reviews and seen the movie trailer. For the longest time, I had an urge to read this book because it sounded good, but I hadn't read this book because it sounded scary and I don't do scary. But well I saw the movie trailer (Sandra Bullock!), and then the Kindle edition went on sale for $2.99 US. So I told myself if you can get through the book then maybe you can watch the movie.
The premise of Bird Box is scary. A mother of two four-year-old children has to make it 20 miles down a river to a haven blindfolded because if she opens her eyes, she will see something that will make her kill those closest to her and then herself. We don't know what this thing is but its real and it's out there.
Luckily for me, this book wasn't as scary as I thought it was going to be, but that was also the disappointing part. I could have read this book a long time ago. I never really cared all that much about the characters, we didn't learn much about them before the Problem starting. I didn't need to see their lives before the timeline in the book but other than Tom we never learned much about their back story including Malorie's and she's the main character. I mean I don't need to like a character, but I have to them interesting and to find them interesting I need to know about them. I would have loved to learn more about Cheryl and Felix and Jules, even Don. I wanted to understand more of why he was the way he was. In survivor horror, I liked learning what makes a character tick and seeing how people react to situations differently especially since the real danger isn't what you cannot see but how people act when they do see whatever is outside.
There were a few creepy moments in this book it did have me compelled to finish it because I needed to know what happened at the end, but it didn't get GOOD for me until the last twenty per cent.