Reviews for Remarkable Creatures

The average rating for Remarkable Creatures based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-02-14 00:00:00 Min H Mebarkia Some of my favorite things about Remarkable Creatures: 1) Bathing machines! 2) Fossils, of course. 3) A regency era book about friendship between two women, rather than the marriage of some rehabilitated rake and some nubile. 4) Elizabeth's characterization of people based upon what feature they "lead" with - eyes, hair, hands. 5) Fossils! I enjoyed this book a lot more after I came across some information about who Mary Anning really was. At first, I did not realize this was based on the stories of real people and the amazing discoveries of two women inlcuding the first ichthyosaur skeleton correctly identified. Very enjoyable and now I want to go to Lyme Regis with a little hammer and hunt for fossils.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-12-31 00:00:00 Steve Wiley [Mary and Elizabeth both fall for the same older guy. Mary hopes that he'll ask her to marry him, but eventually realizes that's simply not going to happen. After she figures that out, she decides to sleep with him just one time, just for the experience of having sex, because she's realized she's not likely to ever marry him or anyone else. It just seemed like late 20th century kind of thinking to me. If she'd slept with the guy hoping to get him to marry her, that would have made more sense for those times. Plus the guy is kind of a cad, but that's a whole 'nother story. (hide spoiler)]