It's not often someone flips open the first few pages of a book at the bookstore, see a discussion about cyanobacteria and gets excited. That did however happen a couple months ago and that instigator was me. The cover art for this book is AMAZING too which helped me ferry it over to the checkout counter.

Too bad the book sucked. The discussions about the mechanics of consciousness are somewhat interesting but never ended up connected before the author flies off a tangent at the end of each chapter hoping you didn't notice they didn't actually come up with a conclusion for the chapter let alone the book as a whole. Coupled with ending on some uninspiring musings about animal welfare and climate catastrophe that land squarely in strike zone of the Overton window that made me REALLY want to DNF, needless to say I will be admiring this authors books from afar next time I see one in Abbey's.