I'm very glad I read this book-- as a cat owner, it succeeded in its goal of making me look at my living room lion (though mine is more panther) in a new way. Learning about the differences between the relatively recent and incomplete 'domestication' of cats compared with other common pets was very eye-opening, and it's fascinating to really understand that the genetics of the common 'house' cat have not changed much, if at all, from their more wild direct ancestor.

The only part of the book that made me feel less than hooked was when Tucker tried to contextualize the biology of cats and our human love for them in the world of the internet, memes, and LOLcats-- maybe I'm a snooty Millenial, but it smelled of too much trying to pander and a bit 'How do you do, fellow kids,' to put it in meme terms.

Other than that, I would highly recommend this book to not only (but also especially) cat owners and lovers, but anyone with even a passing Darwinian interest in evolutionary biology.