A review by poopdealer
Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life by George Monbiot

5.0

one thing i dont get about environmentalist books is they seem to all really love including random topics and personal stories that have absolutely nothing to do with nature. idk why but they addicted to doing this. a second habit im really not a fan of in this book is how he starts so many stories with incomplete information to try to add suspense. i have no idea where this is going and none of the description has any weight because youve left out basic grounding information. sometimes in this book, these two things are combined and you get a story that feels hollow but sounds intense which also ends up being about nothing. my main problem with this book are minor stylistic / editing choices like these. it's frustrating because he can be an expressive writer at times but there's definitely fluff. maybe this was just me getting used to his writing, but i found the first 80 pages especially annoying to read (up until the beaver section lol). this book isnt bad at all though and it's great compared to other environmentalist writing. i liked the sections on ocean life towards the end the most