I really enjoyed this! It has a lot of bad reviews with people saying it wasn’t scientific enough, but that’s exactly what I wanted. It’s raw, emotional, had me crying a few times, and had enough cool facts about marine life to satiate the science lover in me without going overboard. For me, if it had read like a science report I would have DNF’d it immediately. I really loved reading about the relationships with the octopuses, as well as everyone’s relationships to each other (although to be honest I cared about the octopuses more LOL)

There were a few things I didn’t like though, like that long chapter where Montgomery was learning how to scuba dive. I liked the chapters where she was actually diving, but the learning part was super boring and I skipped over it ngl. Also she repeated the same phrases A LOT. One example, I counted the use of “smaller than a grain of rice” for reference to the size of a baby octopus SIX TIMES. THATS WAY TOO MANY TIMES. There were a few other heavily repeated phrases but that was the worst one

Otherwise, I loved this! Would definitely recommend if you’re like me an enjoy science without all the boring bits