I read this book at the beginning of my NetGalley membership. Lynne Cox is one of my favorite authors and I love dogs, so what could go wrong? I was disappointed with the story line, expecting it to be about Al, but most of the book was not. It did cover the rescue dogs and their training, but something was lacking. My apologies to Lynne Cox. I thank NetGalley and Knopf Doubleday Publishing for the advance read.

An interesting book about how rescue dogs are trained, the differences in how the breads approach their rigorous tasks, and the dedication of training handlers. These four-legged task-driven heroes are amazing..

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing this book in exchange for an honest review.
I love the cover of this book. I thought the book would be all about Al but only portions are about her. The training of the water rescue dogs is really interesting and I'm glad Al's people never gave up on her as a water rescue dog.
Overall, this book wasn't as good as I expected, I think because I figured most of the book was about Al. But the other side stories of water dogs and the author's swimming lessons for water fearing people was nice to read about.

This book was half travelogue with all the descriptions of food. The title was slightly misleading because it was more about water rescue dogs as a whole and Al was a small part of it. But it was a quick, easy read about dogs so what's not to like?