love dinosaurs. Always have. Wanted to be a paleontologist as a child.

This book fell very flat for me. While there is fascinating information in the book, it is bogged down and dragged out through an attempted story narrative. This doesn’t work for an adult, educated reader. The fictional dinosaurs and the descriptions of their last day in detail became very draining. I kept wanting to speed the book up to get to the actual facts about dinosaurs and the extraction event. The book also became very repetitive. By halfway I didn’t want to read anymore.

"Beginnings need endings, a lesson that we can either hold carefully or that we can deny until it finds us."

This isn't really a dinosaur book, in the way that I was expecting from the title, instead it's an extinction event book. Silly me I thought it was going to be a book about the last days of the dinosaurs prior to/just after the extinction event. The majority of this book is actually about what happens after the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, and mostly doesn't involve dinosaurs.

I like to call these books flowery nonfiction because though they are based in nonfiction the author takes a lot of liberties in the language and the stories depicted. The author does the best she can to present the information in a manner that respects the proven science while using her imagination to fill in the gaps and make the information more palatable to the consumer. At least she mentions this in the book, and how she hopes that science will be able to prove/disprove her theories in the future.

I think the story was ok, but I found it really slowed down in the middle. I think I liked that the conclusion and appendix chapters the most. I could have read way more of that. type of information.

One of my favourite parts was when the author mentioned her anemoia for dinosaurs. I didn't even know that was a thing, but when I read it I knew that I couldn't agree more.

There are two kinds of people in the world – people who love dinosaurs and people who don’t. Being in the former camp, I was eager to read this book told from the dinosaur’s point of view about their reign and eventual extinction from earth. While some have described this book as childish, I found it to be an enjoyable romp through the Cretaceous Period. Dinosaurs for the layperson, not the scientist.