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The Devil's Ridge

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Andre Bergeron has crafted a heart-pounding adventure that catapults the reader into the stench-filled shadowy lair of the most feared legend of the deep hardwoods. A casual walk in the woods will never feel the same after you've experienced Bergeron's chilling tale of five friends and their back-country search for one of North America's most elusive and dangerous creatures.

When you hear something creeping in the dry leaves outside your tent, or a strange noise just beyond the reach of the campfire's glow, perhaps it isn't just another raccoon scavenging for dinner scraps. Bergeron awakens the whispering voice in the back of your mind that tells you something much much larger and more sinister might be lurking just out of sight...

--Enjoy the story. I recommend it highly.

Devil's Ridge is a heart-pounding thriller, which I could not put down after I started it. Bergeron creates a compelling story of several hunters who go looking for redemption in the woods of eastern Kentucky, but they find more than they bargained for. The mythical Bigfoot comes to life in this book, and these creatures are not something you'd want to run into in your local woods.

This is the kind of story, if told around a campfire, would keep everyone up late, looking around and listening for sounds. It was very entertaining and well done. I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys thrillers and stories of the supernatural. 5 Stars!!!

I agree with the other reviews- this is an exciting read. Warning: if you are reading this on a camping trip, you WILL catch yourself turning your head to look into the woods for the noises (or the mysterious source of them).
I think Creighton is a good comparison. Or if you liked The Ruins by Scott Smith, you can expect the same level of suspense and intensity in The Devil's Ridge.

This is really a novella, not a novel. However, the author does a good job of character development. And, although the subject of bigfoot has been done to death, he manages to tell a good and different story.

Bergeron does a wonderful job of both educating the reader on the background of the mythological Big Foot and creating a tense environment that keeps the reader glued to the page. The last 80 pages are almost impossible not to read in one sitting. If you are a fan of either the Big Foot legend or of action books (i.e. Crichton), then this one is for you. Highly recommended!

A very interesting book. This work reflects a new younger view of art where issues of self dominate and drive the plot. Not like anything I have read before, but possibly the first in a flood of new works from a very new sort of writer.

In the earlier stages of this gripping adventure, one of the locals who lives in the area where the bigfoot was supposedly seen, says : "the folks around here have known about this sort of thing for generations and accept it as fact".....

This was exactly my experience when as a student in the late 50's, I spent a week camping in woods above Lochness in Scotland looking for the monster, or 'Nessie' as the locals called her. To them also, they had "known about this sort of thing for generations and accept it as fact" because they claimed to see her often".

We were not so lucky, or perhaps unlucky, as the characters in Andre Bergeron's exciting novel. I could almost share the fear, the adrenalin rushes and smell the stink of the hunting bigfoot.

A really good nail biting read and a movie waiting to happen. I think we will see more of Mr Bergeron

I loved this book!! The story has an incredible build up and kept me on edge the whole time. It should seriously be made into a movie!! I couldn't put it down. It's a must read for anyone.

Wow! This novel is a real page turner, the type of novel you read too late into the night because you just can't put it down. Mr. Bergeron has given us a novel filled with details of the hunt and with a new twist on the Bigfoot legend. Definitely not the book to bring along on your next camping trip if you expect to get any sleep! The final scene with Brad is the most unsettling scene I've read in a long time; truly frightening on so many levels. A great story so give it a try and enjoy!

Being both a Bigfoot buff and a native Eastern Kentuckian, this novel was right up my alley. It did not disappoint. Bergeron seems to have a thorough knowledge of the area, and his writing style was well-suited to the topic.

Although the book could have used another proofreader, I can recommend it to anyone with an interest in the Sasquatch phenomenon. I would really like to see a serious, well-made film version of the story sometime in the future - if done right (instead of just another Sci-Fi Channel throwaway), it could be really good.