A warning to future readers of this book: this is more about SeaWorld and the trainer's life than it is about the orcas. I loved this book, and I love learning about a topic in a book written in biography form, but this is more biography than whales than I expected. That is why I wrote this review, just so you don't start reading in expecting an in-depth view of an orca's life in captivity. It has depth, but not the kind I was expecting.