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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