Author: Rick Gualtieri
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Reviewed by: Nick Tab
In the interest of full-disclosure, I’m a sucker for Bigfoot fiction. The problem is that up to this point, it hasn’t really been done right. I read the Eric S. Brown Bigfoot Apocalypse trilogy and came away only slightly impressed. I’ve always thought that the legend of Bigfoot could provide a talented author with a great opportunity to write a heck of a suspenseful horror story. So it was with great hope and expectation that I picked up Rick Gualtieri’s Bigfoot Hunters. The book starts out as a group of campers are getting ready to make their way to a campsite near the area for a weekend of outdoor fun. This is where I began to see my first issues with the book. Each member of the camping party was almost a carbon copy of every “hot” young actor that you see in every horror remake movie from the past ten years. There was no real connection with any of the characters to the point where you were almost rooting for them to purchase the farm, so to speak. None of them had a compelling story; they were all just beautiful people looking to score with each other. Now on to the part of the story that I was waiting for – the Bigfoot, or in this case the family of Bigfoot, that begin terrorizing the group of campers shortly after they arrive at the campsite. They engage in monologue. Yes, that’s right monologue! Okay so it’s delivered in the story by means of internal monologue, but it is still monologue in the sense that you get a viewpoint regarding what the Bigfoot(s) is/are thinking. This was the part that I really couldn't get past. The few times that I actually began getting into the story somewhat, were ruined by the cheesiness of the internal Bigfoot monologue. Coupled with this was a side-story about a Bigfoot-adventurer reality show being shot in the same area that was sort of interesting, but in the end didn't really save this from being just an average book. I guess I will have to keep waiting for a satisfying horror book based on Bigfoot, because this sadly was not it. I did enjoy certain stretches, especially the scenes where the Bigfoot(s) go on a violent rampage, but there was just too much fluff for me to enjoy it fully.
(3 out of 5 stars)
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