An extremely slow moving book with excruciating detail about coastal Alabama wildlife habitats mixed throughout with a thinly veiled conservation message. Even though we are introduced to the main character Raff at an early age, his character never seems to develop fully. The first part of the book spends more time on Raff’s parent’s background and the history of the Mobile social hierarchy than the main character himself. The middle part of the book is an extremely detailed explanation of the life cycle of an ant colony. Finally the last part of the book begins to build some excitement but sadly it is too little, too late. If I hadn’t been committed to writing this review, I would have put the book down after the first 100 pages.
