Bigfoot Hunters in Love by Jamie Fessenden

Stuart doesn’t mind being alone, and the bisexual Jake has never seen himself in a longterm relationship with a man.īut Bigfoot brings them together, so to speak.įessenden sticks to what he knows, and the resultant effortless realism of his prose anchors the book nicely in a world to which the reader can relate. The awkward initial interaction between Stuart and Jake is believable and well drawn. Nor does he expect to crash headlong into a handsome forest ranger who spends his vacation hunting for the very creatures Stuart is running from.

What he doesn’t expect is to be chased through the woods in his bathrobe by an unidentifiable creature in the middle of the night. Stuart is contentedly living in an isolated New Hampshire house, writing romance novels under a female nom de plume. Right off, Fessenden’s clean, economical style is a pleasure to read.

Stuart and Jake have a somewhat rushed romance, but all in all, I really enjoyed this novella.Ī charming, straightforward romantic novella with an unlikely plot arc: finding Bigfoot. I found this a bit scary but in a good way. Stumbling across the semi-naked stranger, he helps Stuart by sharing his sleeping bag with him and bringing him and his dog home the next day.īut the strange sightings do not end there, as the creatures have a weird interest in Stuart's house in the woods. Jake is researching Sasquatch ever since he was bitten by one during his Park Ranger duties. Trying to escape from them he runs into a stranger in the middle of the woods. Stuart chases him, wearing only a bathrobe, and tries to bring him home, but he finds himself surrounded by creatures that look strangely like Sasquatch. One night, Thor hears a noise outside and furiously starts barking and vanishes in the woods hunting whatever it is that startled him. Stuart is a romance writer who purchased a lonely house deep in the woods of New Hampshire where he lives with his German shepherd Thor.

Bigfoot Hunters in Love by Jamie Fessenden