Review: Bloodpath puts new spin on Bigfoot legend
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 26, 2012
If you've ever, if even for a second, believed that there really are big, hairy creatures living out there in the woods, creatures no one knows about, you have to read Lori R. Lopez's "Bloodpath."Bloodpath explores the Bigfoot or Sasquatch legend and gives us a whole new theory on where the hairy mystery men came from and how they manage to stay hidden.Well, most of the time they are hidden.  Until someone like Boyd Appleton tries to drink himself happy and, failing that, decides he's sober enough to drive home, especially since the road he takes is rarely used and he's not likely to see anyone else.  But like all plans made under the glow of too much alcohol, Boyd's plan goes haywire when he hits someone.When Boyd gets out of his car to check on the person he just hit, the story really begins.  Boyd finds himself being carried further into the woods and buried under leaves.  When he wakes up and escapes his early grave, he decides to find out what happened and just who it was he struck with his car.Boyd ends up a hidden observer of something many have imagined, even claimed to have seen -- a group of Bigfoot creatures.  And, like many human beings faced with something they know little about, Boyd blunders into the situation and makes things immeasurably worse.  The repercussions leave a "Bloodpath" through the lives of the Bigfoot creatures and the humans they come in contact with.Lori Lopez does a good job of putting a new spin on a familiar legend. You may think you know if the Bigfoot really exists, you may think you know what you'd do if you saw one.  You may want to catch one on film or, even, catch one just to prove the legend.  Lori shows us that you never know what will happen until it happens, and somethings are better left unknown and untouched.