#140 in Horror
Devolution
- 304
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 1 week on the list
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Our view
“Devolution” traps a community of gadget-dependent city people in the woods after an eruption and lets Bigfoot do the rest. Max Brooks tells it mainly through one woman’s journal, a found-document approach that some readers enjoy even more than his earlier “World War Z”. Others find the build-up too slow, the threat too obvious from the start to frighten, or the ending short of what they hoped for.
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About the book
Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre is a fiction book by American author Max Brooks set in the Pacific Northwest. It chronicles the story of a small, isolated community of technology-dependent city dwellers who suddenly are cut off from the rest of the world after a volcanic eruption. In addition to lacking outdoor survival skills and resources, they find themselves under siege by a clan of Bigfoot. The book was optioned by Legendary Entertainment to become a film, around the same time the book began to be sold to the public in June 2020. It was also nominated for Locus Award's Best Horror Novel in 2021.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.5 across 299 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 67% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Horror average of 7.5. That is how 7.5 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.5 | 11 | 4% |
| Hardcover | 7.5 | 288 | 96% |
Frequently asked
How long is Devolution?
It has 304 pages — shorter than 79% of the ranked books in Horror.
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