This book was an interesting tale about a swimmer's journey through life, finding what made her happy and so on. However, this author lacks story line, and focuses more on how great she was, or how awful her life was. Indeed, her story is qutie remarkable, and I am sure that anyone would have loved to make it as far as her. It WOULD be nice to have someone else besides Kristen speak inside this memoir, and have a little more of a plot than just "I swam here, i felt this, blah blah blah".