*Thank you to Hachette Audio and NetGalley for the ALC! All opinions are my own.*

This was a pretty cool short read! Very informative. I loved the narrator and felt like his voice was well-suited for a nonfiction work. In terminology- or information-dense texts, it can be intimidating to read them audibly for me, because I fear I won't hear everything properly, but the narrator was perfectly clear and I never felt confused or misunderstanding.

For what this little book was, it was well-written and seemed wonderfully researched. My one note was that it felt like we were bouncing around biomes far too much. I feel like every time I blinked, we were jumping from flies to birds and back again, where I much would've rather stuck with one sort of critter for a longer chunk of time. I will say, for the sake of full transparency, I also feel like I was expecting a sort of clear call-to-action at some point in the book. That's more of a skill issue on my part, though. I'm not very well-versed in nature or backyard biology and I came looking for something that wasn't being offered.

Overall a nice little intro to backyard biology for those uninitiated like myself.