Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

Today’s review is on Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks. It is 286 pages long and is published by Del Rey Books. The cover is white with a red giant footprint and a human footprint inside it. The intended reader is someone who likes horror novels, monster novels, and Bigfoot. There is mild foul language, no sex, and violence in this novel. The story is from first person close of Kate, the main character, and other first hand interviews about the Rainier massacre. There Be Spoilers Ahead.

From the dust jacket- As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier's eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined . . . until now.
But the journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town's bloody wreckage, capture a tale too harrowing--and too earth-shattering in its implications--to be forgotten.
In these pages, Max Brooks brings Kate's extraordinary account to light for the first time, faithfully reproducing her words alongside his own extensive investigations into the massacre and the legendary beasts behind it.
Kate's is a tale of unexpected strength and resilience, of humanity's defiance in the face of a terrible predator's gaze, and inevitably, of savagery and death.
Yet it is also far more than that.
Because if what Kate Holland saw in those days is real, then we must accept the impossible. We must accept that the creature known as Bigfoot walks among us--and that it is a beast of terrible strength and ferocity.
Part survival narrative, part bloody horror tale, part scientific journey into the boundaries between truth and fiction, this is a Bigfoot story as only Max Brooks could chronicle it--and like none you've ever read before. 

Review- A wonderful horror novel by Brooks, that brings Sasquatch and classic monster Killer movies into the modern-day. Brooks frames this novel as an investigation that he gets involved in when he's contacted by the main character's older brother as he continues to search for her. The story is told in first-person narrative of the journals left behind by Kate and of the interviews done by Brooks. The writing style is absolutely fantastic, The narrative is compelling, and at times the plot had me very anxious about how everything was going to turn out. Brooks managed to get around the main problem with monster attack stories, which is caring about the characters when you know they're all going to die. He does this very successfully and you care about the people who die, some more than others of course, and in the end you're left with questions and wanting to know what exactly happened up there. There is no doubt that the Bigfoot killed everyone but did they kill everyone or where enough left behind to start killing the Bigfoot? It's not clear but it is a good ending to a surprisingly well-written horror novel.

I give this novel of Five out of Five Stars. I get nothing for my review and I borrowed this book from my local library.