Carly’s Reviews > Resurrecting the Shark: A Scientific Obsession and the Mavericks Who Solved the Mystery of a 270-Million-Year-Old Fossil > Status Update

“Stepping across that bridge of imagination once again, far away and long before the Komi kingdom, there was the Permian realm of Pangaea….”

girl bye. im skipping paragraphs that are nonsense. were talking about prehistoric eras and then we jump to i dont even know.

“Some of the ray-finned fishes as well as some sharks evolved crushing teeth to take advantage of these new food sources, while other sharks held on to their sharp teeth, the better to eat all those ray-finned fishes.”

that last part is what im talking about. i dont need a metaphor to little red riding hood. was the author given a word count requirement and this is how she hit it? it doesnt flow with the tone at all

its getting better but theres still way too much flowery language for a non-fiction book. its mental gymnastics going from "this is what happened" to "oh thats a metaphor/not to be taken literally" idk how to explain it. i need to find an example.

I hope this author gets more organized as the book progresses cause damn she's all over the place. She also needs to break some paragraphs up like jeez. If the topic changes, new paragraph. It's not hard.