Taking up our resources, our time to care for you.” Brooks presents a case for making room for Bigfoot in the world while peppering his narrative with timely social criticism about bad behavior on the human side of the conflict: The explosion of Rainier might have been better forecast had the president not slashed the budget of the U.S. Indeed, the novel does double duty as a survival manual, packed full of good advice-for instance, try not to get wounded, for “injury turns you from a giver to a taker. Brooks places 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 doesn’t know how to do much of anything but tries anyway, the well-intentioned bleeding heart, the know-it-all intellectual who turns out to know the wrong things, the immigrant with a tough backstory and an instinct for survival. A volcanic eruption is quite another, for, as the journalist who does a framing voice-over narration for Brooks’ latest puts it, when Mount Rainier popped its cork, “it was the psychological aspect, the hyperbole-fueled hysteria that had ended up killing the most people.” Maybe, but the sasquatches whom the volcano displaced contributed to the statistics, too, if only out of self-defense. The science is messy, wins feel too easy, and losses don’t cut as deeply as they’re meant to, though it's possibly saved by witty one-liners and the author’s sharp take on a bird’s eye-view of Seattle.Ī heavy-handed zombie apocalypse-meets-nature documentary meant to inspire humans to do better, but it loses its way.Īre we not men? We are-well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006).Ī zombie apocalypse is one thing. In lieu of giving her lively animal characters a rich narrative arc, the author focuses too heavily on not-so-subtle morality tales about every injustice and environmental crisis in the world today. It’s an intriguing and fun premise that starts with a strong and saucy voice, but this debut novel gets very muddled very quickly. and Dennis join forces with wild crows and other animals to keep their territory safe. When old and new predators emerge in a city quickly returning to nature, S.T. uses his corvid intelligence and Dennis’ high-powered sniffer to come to the rescue.
With his innate knowledge of the MoFo (human) world, S.T. They soon realize other domesticated animals aren't as lucky and are trapped in their locked homes. and loyal canine Dennis venture out into Seattle.
When a deadly virus changes humankind forever, S.T., a domesticated crow with a mouth like a sailor, and his dog, Dennis, teach the animal kingdom how to survive the apocalypse.Īfter their owner becomes a slobbering, zombielike creature with a deadly cellphone obsession, unflappable crow S.T.
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