Carlo Rovelli books have become a real pleasure in my reading pile, a lovely mix of poetic and intellectually engaging. So it was an unpleasant surprise that I really disliked this one, his first book which has just been translated into English for the first time.
It is less physics, and more Rovelli's take on what science is and where it comes from. Turns out, that take is largely that science is what religion is not, and where it comes from is largely  the Western* canon. It is, ultimately, a somewhat rigid view of how thought evolves, and while I applaud Rovelli's passion for open debate, I think he has too narrow a conception of who gets invited to it.

*Rovelli is at pains to credit Arabic thinkers and to condemn Christian thinkers - but ultimately, this is a very Enlightenment narrative about science.