![]() ![]() The other inhabitants of Greenloop are people who have never planted a garden and who don’t understand the dangers of feeding wild animals. The main character is from LA, a woman so new to the prototype community called Greenloop that she and her husband haven’t yet read the owner’s manual about how their smarthome works. It starts out with some gentle satire about people who move to the wilderness of the Pacific northwest to try to live in a sustainable way without knowing anything about nature or how their technology works. It doesn’t start out like a horror story. I realized this around three one morning as I was reading it in a quiet house on a quiet street with snow falling outside, no neighbors’ lights, no car going by, just me and the dark and a story about creatures trying to get into a house to eat the people inside. Entitled Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre, it tells its story through first-person narratives from letters and journals, which makes it sound less exciting than it is it’s a page-turner. I read and enjoyed Max Brooks’ World War Z so picked up his newer novel when I came across it. ![]()
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