so-so
The author is being defensive 🙂
Bees? Bah! Just wasps that went vegetarian. Ants? Bah! Wasps that forgot how to fly.
Which is fun.
But the style is uneven. It mixes involved storytelling and scientific passive voice, so much so that you can get whiplash.
(Great chapter framed as an imaginary visit from Aristotle, though. The entire book should‘ve been written like that.)
So-So (barely) because it‘s a road less travelled.
2.75/5
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(Btw, in The Boyfriend Material, the MC works for an organization protecting the dung beetle which is run by an obsessed scientist who supposedly wrote a book. This is that book—only about wasps.) 1y