We must accept that the creature known as Bigfoot walks among us-and that it is a beast of terrible strength and ferocity.ĭevolution is a really strong book, almost surprisingly so.
If what Kate saw in those days is real, then we must accept the impossible. In these pages, Max Brooks brings to light the journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town’s bloody wreckage, faithfully reproducing her words alongside his own investigations into the massacre that followed and the legendary beasts behind it. And as the ash swirled and finally settled, they found themselves facing a specter none of them could have predicted-or even thought possible…
With no weapons and their food supplies dwindling, Greenloop’s residents slowly realized that they were in a fight for survival. Offering a glorious back-to-nature experience with all the comforts of high-speed Internet, solar smart houses, and the assurance of being mere hours from Seattle by highway, Greenloop was indeed a paradise-until Mount Rainier erupted, leaving its residents truly cut off from the world, and utterly unprepared for the consequences. It’s a gripping read, filled with a lot of tension, some immediately captivating characters, and a lot of genuine chills. But unlike World War Z, I really enjoyed Devolution. Resting closer to something like Frankenstein than Brooks’ World War Z oral history riff, Devolution is another epistolary novel (or, as I jokingly refer to it, “found literature”) from Max Brooks. And that’s where Devolution, Max Brooks’ newest book comes in. But there is something kind of frightening about a giant ape-like monster with borderline-human intelligence whose existence nobody can seem to prove or disprove. It became a recurring nightmare of mine for a while until I eventually grew out of that fear and moved on. I can’t remember how old I was when I first encountered a Bigfoot thing, but I can remember having seen some pseudo-documentary on Animal Planet, or something, and being ever so frightened of looking out my bedroom window and seeing Bigfoot staring back at me. When I was a kid, I was scared of Bigfoot-like, properly scared.
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