Sidney Y. (sidney1220) reviewed on 12/17/2020 + 4 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 3

With Devolution, Max Brooks tries to replicate the formula for World War Z but the result is not nearly as successful. Virtually nothing happens for almost half of the book. And when the action finally does starts to pick up, it's just a very generic and straight-forward residents-of-a-remote-community-band-together-to-fight-bigfoot plot. If you've ever read a book featuring a monster stalking humans, then you can predict exactly what's going to happen before it happens.

The book is written mostly in the form of journal entries penned by Kate, the book's protagonist, with fake interviews and essays interspersed throughout. The fake interviews and essays, supposedly given and written by experts with knowledge of bigfoot, add nothing to the story and feel like mostly filler. The book would have been a lot shorter without them and I started skipping over these about half way through.

To be fair, I did finish the book in 2 days and it was entertaining enough. Just nothing special especially compared to what the author was able to achieve with World War Z.

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