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A review by robblar_
The Unexpected Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Wild Tales by Lucy Cooke
4.0
I will start by saying I adored this book.
Having read other reviews: criticising a non-fiction book for being too thoroughly researched or including too much history strikes me as odd. That said equally, this book is clearly geared at being accessible to non-zoologists, so the criticism it is written too colloquially or without sufficient historical contextualisation leaves me wondering what people thought they were about to read in “The Unexpected Truth About Animals” that bares the subtitle “stoned sloths, lovelorn hippos and other wild tales”.
I do think the author has been hoisted by a critical point actually raised in her book about clickbait titles being given to text that do not necessarily summarise the work, instead sensationalising morsels. The title and blurb do not necessarily sell the true purpose of the work and, now i’ve finished reading, does not appear fitting.
Having read other reviews: criticising a non-fiction book for being too thoroughly researched or including too much history strikes me as odd. That said equally, this book is clearly geared at being accessible to non-zoologists, so the criticism it is written too colloquially or without sufficient historical contextualisation leaves me wondering what people thought they were about to read in “The Unexpected Truth About Animals” that bares the subtitle “stoned sloths, lovelorn hippos and other wild tales”.
I do think the author has been hoisted by a critical point actually raised in her book about clickbait titles being given to text that do not necessarily summarise the work, instead sensationalising morsels. The title and blurb do not necessarily sell the true purpose of the work and, now i’ve finished reading, does not appear fitting.