Leather and bones Kirkus Reviews
by Max Brooks
Date of Issuance: June 16, 2020
Delicious, if not always with taste, a tale of supernatural chaos that fans of King and Cricton will enjoy.
Aren’t we men? We are – well, ask Bigfoot as Brooks does in this delightful yarn following your bestseller World War II Z.(2006).
The zombie’s apocalypse is one. The volcanic eruption is quite different, because, as the journalist, who makes a framed voice storytelling for the latter, says that the Ray Mountain popped up his cork: “It was the psychological aspect, the hyperbole nourished hysteria that ultimately killed the most people.” Perhaps, but the sascots that the volcano displaced also contributed to statistics if it was not just self -defense. Brooks Place the Epicenter of the Bigfoot War in a High-Tech Hideaway Populated by the Kind of People You Might Find in a Jurassic Park Franchise: The Schmo Who Dosn’t Know How Mu Much WELL-INTENTED BLEEDING HEART, The Know-Ill Intellectual WHO TURNS OUT TO KNOW THINGS, The Immigrant with A Tough Backstory and An Instinct for Survival. In fact, the novel fulfills a double obligation as a survival guide full of good advice – for example, try not to be born, “for hurting you from a donor to an entrepreneur. Taking our resources, our time to take care of you.” Brooks presents a case to create a place for Bigfoot in the world as he exceeds his story with timely social criticism about poor human behavior: Rainier’s explosion may be a better prediction that the president does not reduce the budget of US geologists. Brooks is a professional in building tension, even if it is played in some rather spectacular episodes, one including a short copy that bears its name from the “sucking sound to pull it from the heart and lungs of the dead.” Growth aside, this puts you right there on the stage.
Delicious, if not always with taste, a tale of supernatural chaos that fans of King and Cricton will enjoy.
Date of the pub: June 16, 2020
ISBN: 978-1-9848-2678-7
Number of Pages: 304
Publisher: Del Ray/Balantine
Review published online: February 9, 2020
Kirkus Reviews problem: March 1, 2020