Juli Berwald

It was reviewed by librarian Elissa Cooper for Library Journal,[2] librarian Nancy Bent for Booklist,[3] bookseller Hank Stephenson for Shelf Awareness,[4] Leslie Nemo and Andrea Gawrylewski for Scientific American,[5] jellyfish expert Lisa-ann Gershwin for Nature,[6] Maura M. Lynch and Jinnie Lee for W magazine,[7] and Erika Engelhaupt for Science News.

[9] In addition, the book was briefly mentioned by Alex Crowley for Publishers Weekly's Fall 2017 Adult Announcements,[10] by Jennifer Ridgway for Brightly,[11] by Eliza Thompson for Cosmopolitan,[12] by Jane Ciabattari for BBC Culture's Between the Lines,[13] and by Chelsea Stuart for Jetsetter.

[15] Berwald and Spineless were a major influence for artist Marina Zurkow's conceptual climate-change themed project, Making the Best of It.

The book combines memoir and science to study the coral reefs and the scientists, researchers, philanthropists, and filmmakers who are working to preserve their existence.

Also in 2009, Berwald wrote for Oceanus magazine about the sedation of whales entangled in fishing lines,[20] the key threats to Emperor penguins,[21] and yellow-band disease in coral reefs.

Her concerns focused on the heightened opportunities that the expansion presented to invasive species like Rhopilema nomadica, with implications for the Mediterranean Sea.

[31] In May 2016, in another National Geographic article, she interviewed Rachel Buchholz about her book Amazing Moms: Love and Lessons from the Animal Kingdom.

[39] In 2007, Berwald wrote for Redbook about how motherhood had changed her perspective on life, but that her 10 years as a marine biologist aided in other situations.