A review by sierrasierrasierra
The Secret Life of Stars: Astrophysics for Everyone by Lisa Harvey-Smith

informative inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

3.5

This book… hmmm. I have a complicated relationship with this book. I’m fascinated by it and found it funny but I guess I felt like the humor was too much at times? At times I forgot the correlation to the actual astrophysics concept because the funny metaphor went into way more detail. I think it really depends on who you are and your interest level in the topics to determine whether this is a good or bad thing. I think for “astrophysics for everyone” this book really hit the mark at avoiding making the subject boring or overcomplicated, but I personally felt like depth could have been added without ruining that aspect.