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

4.0

“I think the human mind isn’t comfortable with mysteries. We’re always looking for answers to the unexplained. And if an answer can’t come from facts, we’ll try to cobble one together from old stories.”

This book was so brilliantly written. So believable that I had to remind myself throughout that I was reading fiction. The pacing was perfect and I was left with a perfect combination of wanting more, and being satisfied.

It was an interesting take on human nature and how we might react in isolation, when technology is stripped away, when the world around us is crumbling and we are forced to not just figure out how to survive, but face what that might look like within ourselves + those around us. What might happen when we are forced to acknowledge the existence of something we’ve been told is fictional our entire lives.