Nice quick read. It was interesting and well thought out. It’s enjoyable for those who like mystery and quiet settings. Would recommend.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.