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Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens

Start date: March 15, 2019

Finish date: April 1, 2019

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Jun 23, 2022 Temple Dog rated it really liked it

Our central character is Catherine Clark “Kya” the Marsh Girl. A title that is both pejorative, yet accurate. Kya has been abandoned by the world both friend and foe and lives a solitary life in the marsh of North Carolina. She learns to commune with the natural inhabitants and carves out a sustainable existence despite her almost primitive circumstances. But as with all life forms, it is difficult to truly lead a solo life.

So, when she befriends a local boy with blond curls and a shared love fo ...more

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Dec 11, 2019 Laurel Bradshaw rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: coming-of-age, color-rating-blue, audiobook, mystery, 1960s, north-carolina

I'll give this 4 stars for the lovely nature writing, and its evocation of the flora and fauna of the marsh. It's a sweet story, but I wonder if I shouldn't call this a fantasy romance rather than a mystery. The mystery is how the heck does a 6-year-old abandoned child survive in such an environment. As others have also pointed out, there are some geographical absurdities (the author lives in Idaho...), but since I am not that familiar with North Carolina it didn't bother me. The murder mystery ...more

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Aug 25, 2023 Kat (A Journey In Reading) rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: historical-fiction, read-in-2023

I read this book without seeing the movie and was late to the game from everyone else. I will be in the unpopular reviews. This book didn't do it for me. I had 150 "ish" pages left and already knew the ending. The details of Kya throughout her life were too unbelievable; the jerk in the book, standard, the love interest, again, standard. While I appreciated the apparent knowledge of the author about the science, I didn't love the story. The dialect constantly competed amongst the main characters ...more

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Mar 29, 2020 Beth rated it liked it · review of another edition

There are two books here: a lyrical description of the natural world of the bayou from the point of view of a wild young girl who lives alone in the rushes. Then a mystery/trial story that pays homage (very deliberately) to "To Kill a Mockingbird." As much as I enjoyed the former book, the latter ultimately took over and started to read like a movie script. It would actually make a pretty good movie, especially, gasp, the surprise ending. ...more

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