That’s for damn sure.Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre,” by Max Brooks, (Del Rey, 2020), 304 pages. It’s not something we, as humans, experience all that often, right? Here, through the main character’s journal entries, we look through the eyes of the gazelle about to become lunch for a lion (only, the gazelle is a bunch of spoiled rich people and the lion is a giant, mythical creature that smells like rotten eggs).Īnyway, TL DR - you won’t catch me out for a hike annnnnnytime soon.
While reading detailed descriptions about mutilated corpses is gross, sure, what really stuck with me (and gave me two nights worth of nightmares) is the deeply chilling feeling of being hunted. And that’s interesting, for sure! But, dear reader, that is not what I’m here to talk about - I’m here to talk about HOW F*CKING SCARY THIS BOOK IS. There’s a lot in this story about the way people - especially city-dwellers - use and abuse nature, concerned more about the way it looks in the background of their Instagram photos than how carelessly they trample all over it.
Rainier explodes, driving hordes of animals and people from their homes, the unprepared residents of the neighborhood, called Greenloop, find themselves the unwitting prey of a pack of very hungry, very angry Sasquatch (Sasquatches? Sasquatchi? whatever). This novel, as the title suggests, is about a fictional (though it reads authentically like non-fiction, just like World War Z) Sasquatch attack that takes place in a high-tech, exclusive eco “village” for wealthy individuals who want to become ‘one with nature,’ based in the shadow of Mt.
Max Brooks, kindly keep an eye out for my therapy bill, which should be headed to your mailbox soon.
“What’s so scary about an overgrown ape?” Well, as it turns out, A LOT OF THINGS. “How can anyone possibly be scared of Bigfoot,” I wondered innocently as I bought Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre.
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