What did I just read? The chaos and confusion from the beginning of the pandemic are perfectly personified in this book.
The naudio-ARC from NetGalley.
What did I just read? The chaos and confusion from the beginning of the pandemic are perfectly personified in this book.
The narrator did a really good job. My confusion lay within the book overall. I genuinely struggled to make sense of the timelines and people whose stories we followed. I never truly understood what was going on or why or how it all tied together. I'm not even sure what's real and what's not.
Still, this made for a compelling read and I'm still deeply saddened by the loss of life, the ruination of Hong Kong, and the criminalization of those whose only goal was truth....more
Weeks after her cousin's devastating betrayal, Tanvi awakens covered in bruises, coated in mud, & completely unable to remembaudio-ARC from NetGalley.
Weeks after her cousin's devastating betrayal, Tanvi awakens covered in bruises, coated in mud, & completely unable to remember why. Within hours, she discovers that her cousin Mimi is missing. Police deem her a runaway, but Tanvi isn't convinced: Mimi is not the type to run. But no one has a reason to hate Mimi ... except Tanvi herself.
With a family history of murderous madness & no memories of what occurred, Tanvi begins to wonder if it's possible she killed her own cousin.
And, if so, why? And where is she?
I was hooked from start to finish. Tanvi's decision-making was frustrating at times, but I really appreciated the exploration of nature vs. nurture & self-doubt.
The ending gutted me, though. I am not okay....more
This was an interesting - if, at times, frustrating - book. I wanted to be a paleontologist until I was, like, 16, so that paaudio-ARC from NetGalley.
This was an interesting - if, at times, frustrating - book. I wanted to be a paleontologist until I was, like, 16, so that part of me found all of this fascinating. But the book felt like it was 99% disclaimer, reminding the reader that we actually don't know anything about dinosaurs & are just asking wild guesses off of individual samples.
That being said, the segments on what we do know, on what we've found, on what the fossils and skeletons tell us? I was eating it up. The varying theories on nest formation, communal egg laying, young rearing, and the discovery of juvenile only herds were so illuminating. The ideas on how they fought - against predators & each other - were equally intriguing, especially as we got into how researchers came to these conclusions by observing the locations of healed injuries, what would have had to happen to create those injuries in the first place, where an animal's greatest areas of protection were, etc.
What stuck with me most fervently, though, was learning that the world's most intact spinosaurus remains were destroyed in WWII & that's why we don't know more about them....more