A review by corallydeer
Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks

dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This was a pretty good book in my opinion! I haven't read any of Brooks' other works, but my husband has which is why we picked this up to read together. I'm normally not a horror reader so that was definitely a bit of a hurdle for me but this was more gore and body horror once it really picked up (although that's usually worse for me than horror). I still finished, though, and with fairly minimal flinching and eye-closing! The writing was really well done and the format was interesting and organized well.

Dan and Mostar's deaths made me legitimately sad

; I loved them as characters.

I do agree that for such a short book it has a slow start and took a while to get to the horror and gore, but once we got there we were into it and didn't want to put it down. We read in tandem with the audiobook and that was done masterfully as well with all the different narrators (love Nathan Fillion!).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Death, and Body horror

Moderate: Cursing and Grief

Minor: Medical content

Violence, Death, Gore, and Body Horror

(the entire point of the book is that the characters get massacred by Sasquatch's so their deaths are violent, and gory, and there are clearly described bouts of body horror)

| Cursing

(the characters curse at each other and the Sasquatch's)

| Grief

(since characters die one-by-one the others experience grief and mourning)

| Medical Content

(one of the characters has a heart attack and the other do what they can to treat him with lacking resources)