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Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens

Start date: March 15, 2019

Finish date: April 1, 2019

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Jul 18, 2020 The Sassy Bookworm rated it it was amazing

Devoured this book in two days. Think that pretty much says it all!

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Aug 18, 2019 Linda rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: hardback, debut, 2019, chcpl, fiction

I could not spend enough time with this one - life kept getting in the way. I even had to leave the book with fewer than 20 pages to go and the jury about to present its verdict.
I was brought very close to tears at the ending and was concerned whether we were going to find out who killed Chase.
I do wonder, just a little, how real the concept of a "Marsh Girl" who developed the botanical expertise that Kya developed, but I really went along for and enjoyed the ride. ...more

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Jan 04, 2019 Leslie rated it really liked it

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. 4.5/5.0

Highly recommend it, especially if you like the outdoors and you like to examine issues of family, class, and community in your reading time. Had a slow start but once it got going it was well worth it. I listened on Audible and it was all right but some of the voices got a touch confusing meaning they sounded alike. I think there should have been different people for different characters. But that is not as easy as it sounds, I’m sure. Maybe for me personally I should have read this one ...more

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Dec 01, 2019 Sylvia Tedesco rated it really liked it

I read for about six hours straight to finish this book. Poetic and engrossing. The premise of a girl living alone in the marshes of North Carolina reminded me a little of Rima the Bird Girl of Green Mansions.
The beauty of much of the writing won me over, but I always feel a little annoyed that the girl is so beautiful that men fall all over her. A touch too much romantic fiction to be taken seriously.

'Waves slammed one another, awash in their own white saliva, breaking apart on the shore with ...more

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May 20, 2019 Victoria rated it liked it · review of another edition

For me, it loses its way. A lovely writer but characters don't feel fleshed out (Tate arrives oddly fully formed, Kaya never really takes off, some characters just disappear never to be heard from again), and a story that feels like it can't find its message. A murder gets thrown to create some action to it all, and it feels like a separate book. One I don't think this story needed and is a distraction. I feel like all of the growth of these characters happens off camera, and so much is being to ...more

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Sep 27, 2019 Jeanne rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: kindle, retta-would-have-liked-it, 2019-reads

Best book I have read in a long time. Owens puts you in the story. I was in the marsh with Delia. I felt her betrayals. First time I have felt in a while.

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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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