Rating is 3.5 stars.
This book started out really solid. I was interesting in the blending of whale biology, human psychology, philosophy and history. However the latter half of this book gets lost in philosophy and the author’s own personal experiences. The whale biology and ecology gets less and less prevalent as she writes about her own inner philosophical dilemmas. The author does also go a bit over the top with her prose and vocabulary, as if she is trying to ensure her readers know she is intelligent. This comes across as annoying at best, pretentious at worst. It was a good book overall but it could have been better and I was hoping for more of a scientific approach.