A review by avec_la_fleur
All Creation Waits: The Advent Mystery of New Beginnings by Gayle Boss

1.0

I really didn’t care for this book. We are using it for advent this year (along with a coordinating curriculum), and I’ve been regretting my choice all month. The animal facts are interesting, but the writing is painful. It’s too flowery and wordy and comes off as pretentious. A lot of it is so overdramatized and long-winded that my 8 year old doesn’t even know what I just read by the end. It doesn’t flow well and is difficult to read aloud, and there’s a lot of dark language and focus on death. I feel like I’m narrating a National Geographic documentary where the gazelle is about to be attacked by the lion. I wish she would have used simple language to share these interesting tidbits. Here’s an example where saying it the simple way would have been better: “Sitting up, he tucks the unfurred patch of his rump beneath him so it won’t leak heat.”