"Adversity introduces us to ourselves"

This would've gotten 5 stars if it weren't for the hint of Zionism sprinkled in at one part 🙄 I will put my opinion of the author aside for this review.

This is the first time in a LONG time that a book has legitimately skeeved me out a bit. As someone with a high tolerance (and love) for horror, I never go in expecting to get a shiver. I'm there because I like how horror can explore certain themes blah blah blah. So this impressed me.

It specifically targets one of the few fears that really gets under my skin: hominids. I was fighting for my life taking biological anthropology in college because hominids fill me with a deep seated dread. This book goes further than just a 'killer squatch in the woods!' and employs a lot of theory revolving around hominid evolution, and THAT got to me quite a bit. 

This author clearly did his research and pulled from his history degrees, creating an interesting comparison piece between humans and this Other living in the vast wilderness, their lives and needs not so different from our own.