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Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens

Start date: June 17, 2022

Finish date: July 17, 2022

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Aug 28, 2020 Laura ☾ rated it it was amazing

Where the Crawdads sing follows the heart-wrenching journey of Kaya, the 'Marsh Girl', growing up abandoned and mostly feral, while also jumping back and forth in time to a murder investigation about one of the nearby town's inhabitants. This was an absolutely wild ride, and a gripping, page-turner, with vivid characters that jump right off the page and emotions that felt entirely palpable. I was recommended this so many times before I finally picked it up and I can definitely see why!

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Oct 04, 2019 Sabina Kelly rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobooks, 2019

loved it

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Oct 16, 2021 Maggie Walsh rated it liked it

Shelves: 2021

This is one of the books of 2021, everyone it seems has read it and fallen completely in love with it. I wasn't quite as taken with it though. Yes, its a lovely story of a young girl left to fend for herself in the deep south, the people who treat her kindly and those that don't culminating in a tense courtroom drama where the heroine is on trial for murder. I just wasn't feeling it though. The whodunnit aspect of the novel felt like a distraction and I wasn't sure where this book fits. Delia Ow ...more

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Mar 12, 2019 Maggie rated it it was ok

Shelves: fiction

Oops, I find myself at odds with the multitude again! For me, this one is really a chicklit garnished with some wildlife descriptive writings - though not a bad romance, it wasn't what I was looking for. No no no. ...more

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