This is Book 1 in The Secrets of Life Quartet & the fact its headline linked these to The Big Bang and Trump piqued my interest. My background is in science and I have a keen interest in politics, so I was fascinated to see how the author married these together. If that wasn’t enough to make me start reading, the questions posed on the back cover would have done the trick!
Each chapter has a question which it tries to answer (rather lengthier than those on the cover I might add, but by throwing in teasers like mentioning familiar things like DNA alongside guaranteed attention grabbing words like sex and death, the chances are that you’ll read on).
The writing style is perfect for a book aimed at the lay population, illuminating without intimidating. There are funny cartoons, pictures and quotes which act as a spoonful of sugar to make the learning go down. It’s rather like sitting in the pub with a clever professor who follows the apocryphal Einstein theory ( no, not THAT theory 😉) that if you understand something, you can explain it to a six year old. We are the six year olds and, by the time you finish this book, you WILL have learned things. Whether this is being able to drop LUCA knowledgeably into a conversation, discovering the horrific (but incredibly ingenious) life cycle of the emerald cockroach wasp or finding out that, whilst rutting stags may look fearsome, their battle is closer to choreographed wrestling bouts than a genuine life or death struggle. I promise that you will feel that bit smarter and will be looking for opportunities to impress others with your new found knowledge. This book talks a lot about how organisms succeed in the hurly burly of life, so maybe you should be glad of any advantage you might gain. I can’t guarantee that it will make you more attractive a mate, but it will make you a more interesting one!
All in all, this was a pleasure to read & I look forward to the rest of the series.
My thanks to Literally PR for inviting me to be a part of this blog tour and to the author for an entertaining and educating experience.
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