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The Sasquatch Murder
“An accomplished and thoroughly enjoyable tale, the kind of book one is sorry to finish because it’s such good company.” Foreword Clarion Reviews, 5-star review
They're out there, you know--those bipedal hominids commonly called Sasquatch.
This imaginative, tightly woven tale explains just how those creatures came to be traipsing around in the big trees surrounding Mount St. Helens. While local oddballs and elbow-benders talk Bigfoot and relate their peculiar yarns at Hee-Haw's Tavern, Jake Holly and Jessica O'Reilly are falling in love despite an age difference that Jessica's powerful father cannot abide. When Sasquatch enters the picture, a tripwire is broken and every preconceived notion is instantly turned upside down. Utilizing intricate details and language that's often dressed up in literary lipstick, Jeffery Viles weaves a fast-moving story of events that consume the town of Aurora, and reverberate into the White House and around the world.
“Viles writes in a crisp, balanced prose that’s laden with wonderful details…” “An earnest, thoughtful story about an unplanned discovery.” Kirkus Reviews
They're out there, you know--those bipedal hominids commonly called Sasquatch.
This imaginative, tightly woven tale explains just how those creatures came to be traipsing around in the big trees surrounding Mount St. Helens. While local oddballs and elbow-benders talk Bigfoot and relate their peculiar yarns at Hee-Haw's Tavern, Jake Holly and Jessica O'Reilly are falling in love despite an age difference that Jessica's powerful father cannot abide. When Sasquatch enters the picture, a tripwire is broken and every preconceived notion is instantly turned upside down. Utilizing intricate details and language that's often dressed up in literary lipstick, Jeffery Viles weaves a fast-moving story of events that consume the town of Aurora, and reverberate into the White House and around the world.
“Viles writes in a crisp, balanced prose that’s laden with wonderful details…” “An earnest, thoughtful story about an unplanned discovery.” Kirkus Reviews
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Published July 25, 2017
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February 5, 2018
I was surprised how much I enjoyed reading this novel which takes place in the small town of Aurora, Washington. When a rainstorm interrupts Jake Holly while on horse ride, he and his horse take shelter in a hollowed out large tree. Awakened by unfamiliar sounds, Jake grabs his rifle and accidentally shoots a male Sasquatch in the shoulder. The bullet continues, killing a female Sasquatch who is in the bullets' path. What follows is an interesting aftermath. THE SASQUATCH MURDER was given to me for an honest review.
December 19, 2017
I admit it, this book had me at Sasquatch. Cryptozoology is fascinating in general, but those oversize footed guys are of a particular interest to me. And this one, though it did start with a murder, was actually a pretty compelling and impressively plausible imagining of a sasquatch tribe in Pacific Northwest as they come to inadvertently interact with their less hirsute brethren. Never heard of the author, but the writing was quite good, although with a strong homespuny vibe to it. Much as the title promises there is a love story here (regular sort, nothing crazy and/or interspecies), the characters are likeable to a fault, there’s lots and lots of quaintness, it’s a quaint tale, but not without considerable charm. Made for a quick entertaining read. Thanks Netgalley.
October 23, 2018
A fluff story but written exquisitely. Enjoyable.
March 14, 2018
(From CannonballRead10 post)
“…’Cause I headed West to grow up with the country / Across those prairies with those waves of grain / And I saw my devil, and I saw my deep blue sea / And I thought about a calico bonnet from Cheyenne to Tennessee.”
-- Gram Parsons’ “Return of the Grievous Angel”
The singer/songwriter had the ability to draw from the well of his past and experiences to inform his writing. Some authors painted a picture so aching, vivid and funny you felt yourself knocked back into a chair, mysteriously pulled up directly beside them so you wouldn’t miss a word; elbows on your knees, chin in your hands.
Jeffery Viles’ The Sasquatch Murder (A Love Story) put me in a “What if…?” state-of-mind. What if someone of Parsons’ caliber, who in his short yet exceptional career, wrote the story of how the accidental shooting of a female Sasquatch sets multiple plots in motion instead of Viles? Sardonic and self-effacing, but proud enough he wore his love for country-western and gospel literally stitched on his Nudie suit, I’m certain his approach would have been more successful in the attempt to marry city and country storytelling. The authenticity of his writing would surely have been a welcome presence.
Alas, my wishful thinking shook free and instead Viles' book--painted with amber-gold nostalgia and painfully broad stereotypes sadly meant to remind of Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, OH only to fall more on the scale of a digression cutaway gag on the animated comedy, Family Guy--lost me as soon as the book shuffled from the woods into a small-town chock full of corny characters. It made Andy Griffith’s Mayberry look like Twin Peaks. Mind you, I didn’t have the expectations that a self-published novel from a first-time author would meet the level of an alt-country godfather’s dusty truck stop tales. It was difficult, though, to get through the first few chapters because of the inconsistency of tone and grammatical errors, despite the promising idea. And perhaps that’s the reason my mind wandered to the “What if…?” place set to the music of Parsons.
Jeffery Viles’ reporting skills from his journalism background soon took hold and his obvious love for history and its map of lessons learned--easy to reference to best know how to proceed, but seldom done--put a big shining red bow of irony on many of the book’s plotlines, providing them with much-needed potential. Enough of a fledgling idea that it kept me slogging through (and even generated a bit of hope that this first-time author’s book would improve, to make my time spent reading it worth SOMETHING) until the very end. Strangely, even though the descriptions of nature were full of real affection, I was surprised how little depth Viles gave the Sasquatch creatures. Maybe they were meant for a catchy title and not much else.
However, those characters who the author deemed worthy were well fleshed-out and likeable. Unfortunately, others might well be better off if they never existed. There was no need to tick off all the various character types that weren’t represented on the page and it was surely unnecessary to present those who tip toe deep enough into racist stereotype territory. The decision to do so was baffling. This combined with the multiple digressions into unrelated topics meant to appear deep, but only silly, made me realize this pandering book was a waste of my sympathy and time.
At least it made me listen to Gram Parsons catalog over and over again, which thankfully swept out the ashes in the morning.
“…’Cause I headed West to grow up with the country / Across those prairies with those waves of grain / And I saw my devil, and I saw my deep blue sea / And I thought about a calico bonnet from Cheyenne to Tennessee.”
-- Gram Parsons’ “Return of the Grievous Angel”
The singer/songwriter had the ability to draw from the well of his past and experiences to inform his writing. Some authors painted a picture so aching, vivid and funny you felt yourself knocked back into a chair, mysteriously pulled up directly beside them so you wouldn’t miss a word; elbows on your knees, chin in your hands.
Jeffery Viles’ The Sasquatch Murder (A Love Story) put me in a “What if…?” state-of-mind. What if someone of Parsons’ caliber, who in his short yet exceptional career, wrote the story of how the accidental shooting of a female Sasquatch sets multiple plots in motion instead of Viles? Sardonic and self-effacing, but proud enough he wore his love for country-western and gospel literally stitched on his Nudie suit, I’m certain his approach would have been more successful in the attempt to marry city and country storytelling. The authenticity of his writing would surely have been a welcome presence.
Alas, my wishful thinking shook free and instead Viles' book--painted with amber-gold nostalgia and painfully broad stereotypes sadly meant to remind of Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, OH only to fall more on the scale of a digression cutaway gag on the animated comedy, Family Guy--lost me as soon as the book shuffled from the woods into a small-town chock full of corny characters. It made Andy Griffith’s Mayberry look like Twin Peaks. Mind you, I didn’t have the expectations that a self-published novel from a first-time author would meet the level of an alt-country godfather’s dusty truck stop tales. It was difficult, though, to get through the first few chapters because of the inconsistency of tone and grammatical errors, despite the promising idea. And perhaps that’s the reason my mind wandered to the “What if…?” place set to the music of Parsons.
Jeffery Viles’ reporting skills from his journalism background soon took hold and his obvious love for history and its map of lessons learned--easy to reference to best know how to proceed, but seldom done--put a big shining red bow of irony on many of the book’s plotlines, providing them with much-needed potential. Enough of a fledgling idea that it kept me slogging through (and even generated a bit of hope that this first-time author’s book would improve, to make my time spent reading it worth SOMETHING) until the very end. Strangely, even though the descriptions of nature were full of real affection, I was surprised how little depth Viles gave the Sasquatch creatures. Maybe they were meant for a catchy title and not much else.
However, those characters who the author deemed worthy were well fleshed-out and likeable. Unfortunately, others might well be better off if they never existed. There was no need to tick off all the various character types that weren’t represented on the page and it was surely unnecessary to present those who tip toe deep enough into racist stereotype territory. The decision to do so was baffling. This combined with the multiple digressions into unrelated topics meant to appear deep, but only silly, made me realize this pandering book was a waste of my sympathy and time.
At least it made me listen to Gram Parsons catalog over and over again, which thankfully swept out the ashes in the morning.
January 18, 2018
“At the beginning of beginnings there was only ∞, which was darkness multiplied by nothingness. The darkness was eternal and unchallenged until ∞ divided
nothingness by zero. A sound not unlike a faint brass trumpet note pierced the void, and light issued forth. Darkness could not subdue the light. Whatever
was not darkness was light. The future had a future. Within the light were particles that contained excitable atoms held together in an electron cloud.”
Talk about moving from the general to the specific! The above paragraph, the first in the “Prologue” to The Sasquatch Murder suggests an epic with a cosmic scope is underway.
Nope. Instead, after a crunched history of the origins of the universe through the early varieties of humankind, we end up in a rainstorm in a forest where Jake Holly and his horse try to escape the downpour. There, Jake accidently fires his rifle when he’s startled by a strange couple of beasts copulating on the forest floor. In short order, Jake learns he’s killed a female Sasquatch and wounded her mate.
Trying to do the right thing, Jake takes the corpse to his hometown of Aurora, Washington where a number of subplots begin. For one, we meet Jessica, Jake’s lawyer girlfriend who is 15 years his junior. She’s very supportive. We meet her prosecuting attorney father who dislikes their relationship and quickly has Jake arrested for murder.
Strangely, a local boy sees Jake, Jessica, and a local mortician take the corpse into a funeral home and begins to blog about it. Even more strangely, journalists from as far away as India and Japan read the boy’s blog and come running to track down the story. On top of that, the president of the U.S. gets wind of the story and calls the prosecuting attorney and asks him to suppress the story in the name of national security. The president sends a special unit called the PNG (Paranormal Group) to Aurora to put a lid on the situation.
Meanwhile, many of the townspeople have heard about the body in the morgue and want a look at it. After all, confirmation that Sasquatch, or Bigfoot, exists would be something to put Aurora on the map. And all this happens in just a day or so of the killing.
In addition to all these balls in the air, author Jeffrey Viles tosses in more digressions, character sketches, and unrelated scenes than I’ve ever seen in one book. Throw in the actions of the natural world from Elminio to clouds of volcanic ash and smoke belched out from Mount St. Helen’s to a posse of 16 angry Sasquatch who, for the first time, gather together and march into a human town through a thick fog to reclaim the body of one of their own.
Despite the padding, the touching of so many bases, and improbable plot twists, there’s much in The Sasquatch Murder to attract an audience. After the “Prologue” and very descriptive first chapter, the story is told with an engaging, personable style. Viles fleshes out some very likeable characters, especially Jake and Jessica whose romance is the “love story” in the book’s sub-title.
This one sure looks like a stand-alone yarn with no likely sequels. It’s a family-friendly story, appropriate for a YA readership.
This review first appeared at BookPleasures.com on Jan. 18, 2018 at:
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November 10, 2017
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My thanks to Netgalley and Beaver’s Pond Press for the book to read and provide my honest review.
Description
They’re out there, you know–those bipedal hominids commonly called Sasquatch.
This imaginative, tightly woven tale explains just how those creatures came to be traipsing around in the big trees surrounding Mount St. Helens. While local oddballs and elbow-benders talk Bigfoot and relate their peculiar yarns at Hee-Haw’s Tavern, Jake Holly and Jessica O’Reilly are falling in love despite an age difference that Jessica’s powerful father cannot abide. When Sasquatch enters the picture, a tripwire is broken and every preconceived notion is instantly turned upside down. Utilizing intricate details and language that’s often dressed up in literary lipstick, Jeffery Viles weaves a fast-moving story of events that consume the town of Aurora, and reverberate into the White House and around the world.
They’re out there, you know–those bipedal hominids commonly called Sasquatch.
This imaginative, tightly woven tale explains just how those creatures came to be traipsing around in the big trees…
Available Editions
EDITION
Hardcover
ISBN
9781592987696
PRICE
$19.93 (USD)
MY BOOK REVIEW:
This is a very nicely written story about a man shooting a Sasquatch female, “by accident” and the events that followed. The setting is a small town. The
The author’s voice pushed the story along through easy transitions and excellent story telling using narrative and dialogue well written and full of imagination. I had my doubts that I would enjoy this book, but I was wrong. I was actually surprised with how well it was written. The character development was organized, with the secondary characters pushing the Protagonist toward his goals. At the climax, I expected the story to go one way, but it went another surprising road, leaving me smiling and baffled at the same time. Would I call it a love story… not really. There are elements of love, but something more…
It’s an interesting concept. Although there’s been a lot of Bigfoot stories written, none have been written from this perspective. It was refreshing and enjoyable.
My thanks to Netgalley and Beaver’s Pond Press for the book to read and provide my honest review.
Description
They’re out there, you know–those bipedal hominids commonly called Sasquatch.
This imaginative, tightly woven tale explains just how those creatures came to be traipsing around in the big trees surrounding Mount St. Helens. While local oddballs and elbow-benders talk Bigfoot and relate their peculiar yarns at Hee-Haw’s Tavern, Jake Holly and Jessica O’Reilly are falling in love despite an age difference that Jessica’s powerful father cannot abide. When Sasquatch enters the picture, a tripwire is broken and every preconceived notion is instantly turned upside down. Utilizing intricate details and language that’s often dressed up in literary lipstick, Jeffery Viles weaves a fast-moving story of events that consume the town of Aurora, and reverberate into the White House and around the world.
They’re out there, you know–those bipedal hominids commonly called Sasquatch.
This imaginative, tightly woven tale explains just how those creatures came to be traipsing around in the big trees…
Available Editions
EDITION
Hardcover
ISBN
9781592987696
PRICE
$19.93 (USD)
MY BOOK REVIEW:
This is a very nicely written story about a man shooting a Sasquatch female, “by accident” and the events that followed. The setting is a small town. The
The author’s voice pushed the story along through easy transitions and excellent story telling using narrative and dialogue well written and full of imagination. I had my doubts that I would enjoy this book, but I was wrong. I was actually surprised with how well it was written. The character development was organized, with the secondary characters pushing the Protagonist toward his goals. At the climax, I expected the story to go one way, but it went another surprising road, leaving me smiling and baffled at the same time. Would I call it a love story… not really. There are elements of love, but something more…
It’s an interesting concept. Although there’s been a lot of Bigfoot stories written, none have been written from this perspective. It was refreshing and enjoyable.
December 19, 2017
Available for purchase now!
My thanks to Netgalley and Beaver’s Pond Press for the book to read and provide my honest review.
Description
They’re out there, you know–those bipedal hominids commonly called Sasquatch.
This imaginative, tightly woven tale explains just how those creatures came to be traipsing around in the big trees surrounding Mount St. Helens. While local oddballs and elbow-benders talk Bigfoot and relate their peculiar yarns at Hee-Haw’s Tavern, Jake Holly and Jessica O’Reilly are falling in love despite an age difference that Jessica’s powerful father cannot abide. When Sasquatch enters the picture, a tripwire is broken and every preconceived notion is instantly turned upside down. Utilizing intricate details and language that’s often dressed up in literary lipstick, Jeffery Viles weaves a fast-moving story of events that consume the town of Aurora, and reverberate into the White House and around the world.
They’re out there, you know–those bipedal hominids commonly called Sasquatch.
This imaginative, tightly woven tale explains just how those creatures came to be traipsing around in the big trees…
Available Editions
EDITION
Hardcover
ISBN
9781592987696
PRICE
$19.93 (USD)
MY BOOK REVIEW:
This is a very nicely written story about a man shooting a Sasquatch female, “by accident” and the events that followed. The setting is a small town. The
The author’s voice pushed the story along through easy transitions and excellent story telling using narrative and dialogue well written and full of imagination. I had my doubts that I would enjoy this book, but I was wrong. I was actually surprised with how well it was written. The character development was organized, with the secondary characters pushing the Protagonist toward his goals. At the climax, I expected the story to go one way, but it went another surprising road, leaving me smiling and baffled at the same time. Would I call it a love story… not really. There are elements of love, but something more…
It’s an interesting concept. Although there’s been a lot of Bigfoot stories written, none have been written from this perspective. It was refreshing and enjoyable.
My thanks to Netgalley and Beaver’s Pond Press for the book to read and provide my honest review.
Description
They’re out there, you know–those bipedal hominids commonly called Sasquatch.
This imaginative, tightly woven tale explains just how those creatures came to be traipsing around in the big trees surrounding Mount St. Helens. While local oddballs and elbow-benders talk Bigfoot and relate their peculiar yarns at Hee-Haw’s Tavern, Jake Holly and Jessica O’Reilly are falling in love despite an age difference that Jessica’s powerful father cannot abide. When Sasquatch enters the picture, a tripwire is broken and every preconceived notion is instantly turned upside down. Utilizing intricate details and language that’s often dressed up in literary lipstick, Jeffery Viles weaves a fast-moving story of events that consume the town of Aurora, and reverberate into the White House and around the world.
They’re out there, you know–those bipedal hominids commonly called Sasquatch.
This imaginative, tightly woven tale explains just how those creatures came to be traipsing around in the big trees…
Available Editions
EDITION
Hardcover
ISBN
9781592987696
PRICE
$19.93 (USD)
MY BOOK REVIEW:
This is a very nicely written story about a man shooting a Sasquatch female, “by accident” and the events that followed. The setting is a small town. The
The author’s voice pushed the story along through easy transitions and excellent story telling using narrative and dialogue well written and full of imagination. I had my doubts that I would enjoy this book, but I was wrong. I was actually surprised with how well it was written. The character development was organized, with the secondary characters pushing the Protagonist toward his goals. At the climax, I expected the story to go one way, but it went another surprising road, leaving me smiling and baffled at the same time. Would I call it a love story… not really. There are elements of love, but something more…
It’s an interesting concept. Although there’s been a lot of Bigfoot stories written, none have been written from this perspective. It was refreshing and enjoyable.
March 1, 2018
I said yes to receiving an ARC of The Sasquatch Murder because the title and the summary was really intriguing. I didn't know what to expect and yet, it still managed to subvert my expectations.
The Sasquatch Murder is a book about the accidental killing of a female sasquatch by Jake Holly and the fall out from there, both from the humans in the town and the sasquatches themselves. I really liked how the book would switch POVs between Jake and the sasquatches, as we learnt more about the latter than if we had been stuck with a human limited POV.
The setting was really used to great effect. I loved the descriptions of the forest and the volcano, as well as how the ash and the rain obscured everything. This book was one rooted in its setting, it could not have worked so well as a story if it had been set any other place.
A couple of things I would mention was how there was a few chapters where we looked at the backstories of side characters, a lot of them. I couldn't keep them all straight and I didn't see what they added to the story, much like Jake's speech about what he believed (politically and otherwise) at Tal's house. The book starts off really slowly but then starts to pick up speed as the plot moves along.
I don't think this book is for everyone, Viles has a style of writing which you either get on with or you don't, but I did really enjoy it. Four stars!
*I received a free copy from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review*
The Sasquatch Murder is a book about the accidental killing of a female sasquatch by Jake Holly and the fall out from there, both from the humans in the town and the sasquatches themselves. I really liked how the book would switch POVs between Jake and the sasquatches, as we learnt more about the latter than if we had been stuck with a human limited POV.
The setting was really used to great effect. I loved the descriptions of the forest and the volcano, as well as how the ash and the rain obscured everything. This book was one rooted in its setting, it could not have worked so well as a story if it had been set any other place.
A couple of things I would mention was how there was a few chapters where we looked at the backstories of side characters, a lot of them. I couldn't keep them all straight and I didn't see what they added to the story, much like Jake's speech about what he believed (politically and otherwise) at Tal's house. The book starts off really slowly but then starts to pick up speed as the plot moves along.
I don't think this book is for everyone, Viles has a style of writing which you either get on with or you don't, but I did really enjoy it. Four stars!
*I received a free copy from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review*
January 6, 2018
First, a disclaimer: I won this book in a Goodreads giveaway, but that has no bearing on my review. I don't favor free books more than those I've paid for, nor will I "gush" over one I don't like just because it was given to me.
Second, this is not the type of book I usually read. The synopsis sounded intriguing, so I entered, and am glad that I did!
I loved this book! I won't give any spoilers, but I loved the premise, the execution, even the wrap-up. Mr. Viles excels at the "show, don't tell" style of writing- he doesn't need a whole lot of words to draw you in, to set a scene, to make you understand and care about the characters. He takes a controversial subject- the existence of Bigfoot- and turns it into a plausible story.
I will be watching for more from Jeffery Viles!
Second, this is not the type of book I usually read. The synopsis sounded intriguing, so I entered, and am glad that I did!
I loved this book! I won't give any spoilers, but I loved the premise, the execution, even the wrap-up. Mr. Viles excels at the "show, don't tell" style of writing- he doesn't need a whole lot of words to draw you in, to set a scene, to make you understand and care about the characters. He takes a controversial subject- the existence of Bigfoot- and turns it into a plausible story.
I will be watching for more from Jeffery Viles!
October 30, 2018
I gave it past the halfway point but wasn't curious enough to continue reading. While the idea of the story is really interesting, the prose itself is a bit clunky and too full of extraneous details. The characters, even the leading ones, are predictable in their actions and a bit one-dimensional. This makes the dialogue stale because each character's manner of speaking is so similar. I really wanted to like the book and I have a ton of respect for independent writers but this one wasn't for me.
Note: I received a free Kindle edition of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I would like to thank NetGalley, the publisher Beaver Pond's Press, and the author Jeffery Viles for the opportunity to do so.
Note: I received a free Kindle edition of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I would like to thank NetGalley, the publisher Beaver Pond's Press, and the author Jeffery Viles for the opportunity to do so.
December 27, 2017
Rating 2.5 stars. The idea of a love story that involved a Sasquatch definitely had me wanting to pick this book up. It unfortunately didn't live up to my hopes. The main characters of the book were good, and incredibly believable. My issues with this story were that there were too many tangents. I would be getting into the story and suddenly it was introducing more characters, which all had to have a nickname and a reason for that nickname stated, and talking about something else entirely. I feel that the story suffered from all of theses added things.
Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this book.
Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this book.
January 18, 2018
I really enjoyed this novel. It was two love stories wrapped around a mystery, one love between humans and one between the Sasquatch. The story background of the sasquatch did a good job of accurately covering the current beliefs or non-beliefs and what might happen if proof was found. I read it in one sitting and am looking forward to hopefully more from this author.
I received this book as part of a good reads giveaway but the opinions expressed are solely my own.
I received this book as part of a good reads giveaway but the opinions expressed are solely my own.
November 9, 2017
Moving from a mythic view of the Sasquatch to a more grounded story of human interaction, Viles works in a variety of ways in this book.
I was first captured by the title and concept, with Bigfoot being something that has interested me since I was a child. The writing style and development of the book kept me in the book.
Amazon
I was first captured by the title and concept, with Bigfoot being something that has interested me since I was a child. The writing style and development of the book kept me in the book.
Amazon
March 19, 2018
"The Sasquatch Murder (A Love Story)" by Jeffery Viles provides the reader an opportunity to let his imagination go in this book which is less a murder nor a love story, but provides fiction and possible history to go hand in hand. A major emphasis is on the sasquatch, how it looks, lives, and loves.
June 6, 2018
The Sasquatch Murder? What in the world did I get myself into when I picked up this book? Well,I got myself into a really good book about a man that kills one sasquatch and injures another and brings the dead body into town. His girlfriends father charges him with murder. And then sasquatch comes to town...with friends. Read it,it's good.
November 13, 2017
A perfect book for those who like to think about creatures not yet proven to exist. The story was fun, though the hum drum and murder charges were a bit far for me. If someone had shot a Sasquatch, hype would be beyond comprehension.
November 28, 2017
I'm not really sure what I was expecting when I picked this book up, but I was pleasantly surprised. The characters were well developed and the story was original and well told. I finished the whole thing in less than 24 hours; a really good read.
January 24, 2018
Loved this book, started reading the day I received it and couldn't put it down. Loved the detailed descriptions of the characters, I really felt like I knew them. Actually I know a few people just like them. Very interesting read!
October 3, 2017
A fascinating and funny book that will hook you immediately and make you reconsider your beliefs about Sasquatch! Jeff Viles is a truly talented writer -- I couldn't believe this was his first book!
January 11, 2018
A very interesting and funny story that will keep you hooked from beginning to end!
September 25, 2018
Surprisingly delightful. Loved the colorful regional colloquialisms.
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