Okay, okay. The ACTUAL title is “Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre” but….I didn’t want to give away the entire plot.
This book…THIS BOOK.
This book is about so many things. 1. Obviously, Bigfoot or Sasquatch or…Harry from Harry and the Hendersons…whatever you want to call them - they are in this book.
2. This is about one woman, Kate Holland. She starts this story a neurotic mess. Full of fears, a little self-loathing, clearly looking for something else.
3. This group of ‘green’ people who are just so….smug about it. Composting, methane energy, and their reliance on the current ultra-instant word of the internet. The houses are all controllable by iPad. Groceries are delivered by a self driving van. Drones deliver packages.
Told in a series of interviews, research articles, and Kate’s journal entries, we find this group of people, hoping for a better life - suddenly cut off from the world because of the eruption of Mt. Rainier. Now dependent on each other, the group quickly dissolves into chaos that only increases when bone fragments appear. Slowly, everyone comes to recognize that they aren’t alone in the woods. Kate journals the nightmare - giving each creature a name and characteristic. Kate also journals the casualties.
What Max Brooks has done is reach deep back into the conspiracy theory pile and make something so believable, so real…that I NEVER WANT TO GO CAMPING EVER AGAIN. Who’s to say that Bigfoot ISN’T real??
Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for the opportunity to read and review this book.