The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

3.5 Stars

(Why do I only ever feel like writing reviews for books I give mixed ratings for)

The natural history, historiography, and behavioral ecology parts hooked me. Evocative, vibrant, and engaging. The memoir parts just...didn't do it for me. It's obvious Brusatte is passionate but I am just....not very interested in who he met at which conference, and how he came to work at which dig site. And because these different types of narrative are well integrated, it was hard to skim to the parts I was super interested in. Worth it for descriptions of T. rex hunts and High Key 20th Century Naturalist Drama(tm).