Reviewed Date: March 9th, 2023
Love used to be simple. If you were born in the 18th century, you would have an idea whom you were going to marry by the age of 10 or 12, because your partner would be around the corner. Now, you have so many options. You get tired just by looking at the list.
We get carried away by finding love, but we forget to ask ourselves why we love in the first place. How have we evolved to be humans that seek partners? And why is it so important? These aren’t easy questions to answer. Often we get lost in looking at the evolution from several interpretations and perspectives.
I thought this book answers at least a few of those questions. The author, in the introduction, promised what we are going to find in the book. To be frank, I was impressed. I thought, “Finally, a book addresses what I am looking for.” It did partially. I was disappointed big time.
The science of love the author talked about barely scratched the surface and was very rudimentary. A chapter in The Happy Brain covered so much about love in just 40 pages that this book failed to cover in 190 pages. Yes, it is an autobiographical-nonfiction book; we travel through the author’s love, loss, and grief, but it has so much potential to be a great book on love.
I wish I didn’t read the book. I didn’t learn anything new. I think this book may provide value to beginners.
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