Remarkable Creatures is a story about Mary Anning who lives in Lyme Regis, the Jurassic Coast and she has the EYE to find FOSSILS! Ah... so cool.. Fossils. I've always wanted to be a paleontologist. When I was young. But even then I knew... Singapore?! Where got dinosaurs! KWANG KWANG KWANG. This is a story about people who really lived two centuries ago and this Mary Anning was the first person to ever find dinosaur bones! AHHH! And at only 12 years old at that! She even made money with the fossils she found. I wish I could do that now. Could certainly use it. :D :D

After reading this book, I developed a fondness for Lyme Regis. Which made me research more on this place and the real history of Mary Anning. I can't believe I really went to Wikipedia to read up on this girl! Sadly due to her amazing gift, she couldn't get married. SHEESH to the closed up minds of the people of the past. But her story is really really interesting because I have never read anything like it. There is totally nothing cliche about this book. That's why it's the first, non-Asian book I really enjoyed reading after A Levels. And that was a freaking long time ago. After A levels, I was kind of hungry for something challenging, fresh and new. So I read a lot of poetry, Singapore literature and Malay books.

I even went to Google the first fossils that she discovered! She found an Ichthyosaur and a Pl esiosaur. The first two Jurassic fossils were found by a WOMAN! Ayz... I'm such a fan of Mary Anning now. This is one destination that is on my List of Places To Go when I have money and while I am healthy.

This story is very very different from the stories that I have read before in terms of style and story. There's not much extreme drama here, which I had to get used to. It's very feminist without being too... sickening. It potrays the female characters as very tough. While reading the story, a lot of times I was thinking, " Ah... I wish I lived in that time" but at that era, females were not allowed to participate in scholarly activities and I knew I would have just died if that would happen.