{"id":11975,"date":"2018-09-22T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=11975"},"modified":"2018-09-20T22:30:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T03:30:48","slug":"beverly-green-sasquatch-hunter-by-andrea-c-neil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=11975","title":{"rendered":"Beverly Green: Sasquatch Hunter by Andrea C. Neil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This novel is about Beverly Green a native Okie who made her mark in New York City and returns to Oklahoma to kind of slow down a little bit and get back to her roots and chill out a little bit.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chickens play a prominent part of the story. Especially one chicken with an attitude.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So she moves to Guthrie, Oklahoma, the former state capitol (and still brooding about it) about an hour north of Oklahoma City. She opens a small bookstore but this being the gig economy and all she also gets.a newspaper gig as a side hustle\u00a0 and raises chickens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Guthrie is a funky old town and is the perfect setting for this story.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The editor at the local paper where she works has assigned her the job of reporting on a local Sasquatch sighting and she dreads it. She doesn’t believe in Sasquatches see, but she was also tormented in her youth by visions of the beasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This has nothing to do with the story. It is a scene from the pharmacy museum in Guthrie.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

She sullenly goes through the motion of pursuing the story, talking to local characters who believe in the creatures. In the meantime she keeps running into a man who she gradually becomes very attracted to. I guess that it what makes this a romantic novel. To me it is a romantic comedy and this part of the novel is hilarious. I haven’t read too much fiction before where a female character goes on in detail about why she is attracted to a guy.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The pharmacy park hosts a small scene in the book. This is the family at the park. My Father-in-law, a former pharmacy and now gone, is honored there with a plaque.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I am more into thrillers, detective stories, and non-fiction but this book drew me in and I kept going. The writing just pulled me through was very sparkly and interesting from start to finish. The story involves a Sasquatch stakeout, chickens, and a kiss (a kiss is just a kiss right? or is it?) . It seems set up for a sequel or maybe a whole series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I give this four stars out of four, or five out of five or however many stars you like. It’s a good read, and I hope there is another one from Andrea Neil soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can get the book at Amazon<\/a> or if you live in Tulsa at Magic City Bookstore<\/a>. Both the physical book and the Kindle version, which I got, is are reasonably priced. You can sample some of her writing at her blog.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This novel is about Beverly Green a native Okie who made her mark in New York City and returns to Oklahoma to kind of slow down a little bit and get back to her roots and chill out a little bit.\u00a0 So she moves to Guthrie, Oklahoma, the former state capitol (and still brooding about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1324,1207,2279],"class_list":["post-11975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books","tag-fiction","tag-romantic-comedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11976,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11975\/revisions\/11976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}