A review by matttruss
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach

funny informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

My first time reading Mary Roach, and it probably won't be my last.  Her style is informative and fun and she is a queen of the footnote.  There were some slow parts that weren't always engaging, but for the most part, the book held my interest from start to finish.  It also really made me think and it didn't offer any clear answers, which is ok, this subject is nuanced, like everything.  Definitely not what I was expecting from the title, I think I was expecting more humorous anecdotes of animals behaving badly, and while there is some of that, it is mostly about animals just being animals and annoying humans as we try and cohabitate.  Sometimes it's animals ending up somewhere they shouldn't because humans brought them there only to later realize the consequences of their own actions, sometimes it's the visual threat to a livelihood despite it not being much more than humans cause on their own, and sometimes it actually is animals being naughty.  A quick, enjoyable read about the moral dilemma of pest control and what really determines a pest.