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shiran_fa's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Medical content, Blood, Death, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Torture, and Cursing
Minor: Cancer and Alcohol
henrygravesprince's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death and Violence
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Excrement, and Cultural appropriation
Minor: Abandonment, Animal death, Lesbophobia, and War
nxclx's review against another edition
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
This has been a change from the books I have been reading. It starts off slower, but still interesting, and then stays that way, getting more intense as the story goes on... and then it STAYS intense and on track. It held my attention the entire time, and didn't lose me at the end. I loved the ending, as well. I would happily read a second novel/novella about Kate and her possible fate. So glad I picked this up.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, and Violence
ehmannky's review against another edition
dark
tense
medium-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Overall, there was enough here in this book that I liked and found entertaining to keep reading. It's bloody and spooky, but not scary enough to give me nightmares, and I appreciate that. I liked the framing device of the journal and the interspersed excerpts of "interviews" and books. I actually think the excerpts were far more effective than the actual journal entries, and they felt like a strong call back to what makes World War Z such a strong novel. Maybe it's just because Kate's journal was just too novelistic. It was just a little too perfect.
I wasn't a fan that the Asian child was silent for much of the book, as I feel like that just calls on a tired trope. I did like that Brooks explicitly draws attention to the overall point that this is a town of privileged mostly white people copying Levittowns and that they were doomed from the start because of this. I also appreciated the fact that this book points out that the Disneyfication of nature is bad and it leads to people making careless decisions and dying. However, I didn't like the implication that Kate and Pal have "devolved" into some kind of savage, primitive creature on the off chance that they may be hunting the Sasquatch herd at the end of the novel. It just tickles something that I did not care for. There's also the implication given the description of some of their character's developments that their issues such as anxiety or hypochondria are just products of society and can be cured in a way by this intense situation, and that also just rankles me.
I wasn't a fan that the Asian child was silent for much of the book, as I feel like that just calls on a tired trope. I did like that Brooks explicitly draws attention to the overall point that this is a town of privileged mostly white people copying Levittowns and that they were doomed from the start because of this. I also appreciated the fact that this book points out that the Disneyfication of nature is bad and it leads to people making careless decisions and dying. However, I didn't like the implication that Kate and Pal have "devolved" into some kind of savage, primitive creature on the off chance that they may be hunting the Sasquatch herd at the end of the novel. It just tickles something that I did not care for. There's also the implication given the description of some of their character's developments that their issues such as anxiety or hypochondria are just products of society and can be cured in a way by this intense situation, and that also just rankles me.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Excrement, Gore, Grief, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Cancer
leahrosereads's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
I love monster stories, always have. There's something about cryptids that fascinate me, so I'm always interested in reading books centering around one or another. And I got that here with Sasquatch!
I thoroughly enjoyed this story as a whole but found the characters (aside from Mostar) to be so frustrating and pretty unlikeable.
This is told similarly to WWZ. There's journal entries, interviews and articles, and honestly, I absolutely love this form of writing. It made the story come to life!
I thoroughly enjoyed this story as a whole but found the characters (aside from Mostar) to be so frustrating and pretty unlikeable.
This is told similarly to WWZ. There's journal entries, interviews and articles, and honestly, I absolutely love this form of writing. It made the story come to life!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, and Violence
Moderate: Eating disorder, Grief, and Mental illness
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