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message 51: by Carol Sue (new)

Carol Sue | 1 comments I loved the characters in this book. They sure got me at the end when Kya died in her boat. Never even crossed my mind that she was the poet.... and the final poem!!lordy!


message 52: by Lena (new)

Lena (lenamirish) | 5 comments I just finished the book about 10 minutes ago. I was surprised about the ending, but thinking about it, I shouldn't have been. She never said she didn't do it. The first clue was how much she related to the male and female bugs and their mating patterns.

This was an unforgettable read for me! So glad I read it.


message 53: by Mallory (new)

Mallory | 4 comments I loved this book, I stayed up till 3am reading it. I had to re-read the last page to make sure that I understood what was happening. I was shocked but not too shocked that she was the killer, what I was surprised about though was that she was writer of all of those poems!
Definitely a page turner, and would love to read it again for kicks! :)


message 54: by Amber (new)

Amber (ambers_bookshelves) | 6 comments So from the beginning I thought the killer was Kya, me and my friend read this together and she thought tate, once the trial came I started second guessing myself, but the thing I never could get past was the red fibers from the cap, Kya got the cap from Tate AFTER she was attacked by Chase, and Chase was still alive at this point, so there was no way it could have been tate because he didn't have the hat, also those fibers couldn't have been on the jacket for long because they never "hung out" after she got the hat from Tate because Chase had attacked her so it had to be Kya, even though I wasn't shocked I liked the way she revealed who the murder was, very clever


message 55: by Leann (new)

Leann Felts | 1 comments Can I just say WOW. I could NOT put this book down throughout. What a beautifully written story, and then the end! I had a small suspicion in the back of my mind, but when it was confirmed I still gasped. Awesome book.


message 56: by Shelby (new)

Shelby (hicks2317) I had such a weird feeling when it came to the ending. I wasn’t surprised, but at the same time I was upset that I had fallen for it! The majority of the book I had this feeling that Kya was innocent, and then during the trial I was so sure that she was being set up by someone in the community that didn’t agree with her lifestyle, and then when the ending was revealed I was just stuck thinking, really? I almost didn’t believe it, and I was waiting for another plot twist that never came. I wasn’t necessarily mad about it, but I was more frustrated. Such a weird feeling that it is hard to explain!


message 57: by Typical Ange (new)

Typical Ange (typical_ange) | 1 comments I did enjoy the ending and was a tad bit surprised. The only thing I would change is I do wish we knew exactly what happened. I wanted a chapter of Chase’s final moments with his murderer. What lead up to him fall over the water toward. Did the murderer have it planned the whole time, did Chase stalk them then confront them, or was it just a chance meeting? I want more!


message 58: by Nessie (new)

Nessie | 9 comments This was one heck of a book! I absolutely loved it. I wanted to savor it so I could make it last as long as I could but I had to finish to send it to the next member. It kept me guessing the whole time. I was suspecting Jumpin or Tate but I was wrong. I loved who the killer ended up being. Kya went on to live a very full life even after her crappy start when everyone that was suppose to protect her left. I just can't say enough good things about this book. If you haven't read it go out grab you a copy you'll be glad you did. This will be my best this year I dont think there will be one come out to knock it off the very high pedestal I've placed it upon.


message 59: by carolyn (last edited Jan 22, 2020 06:49PM) (new)

carolyn (caro_lyn_) | 1 comments I loved this book! I couldn't put it down and finished it in two days. I'm not entirely surprised by the ending as it was kind of foreshadowed, but I enjoyed this story so much. This is the first book I've read in while that had me drawn to the characters. Her childhood was heart breaking and knowing now that she killed Chase still blows my mind. I still don't understand why Chase invested so much time with Kya and never took off the necklace she made him. If he's someone who's known to sleep around why did he continue to pursue her?


message 60: by Debbie (new)

Debbie | 8 comments Beautiful story! I couldn't decide who killed Chase and part of me wondered if he did just fall, nah. I wasn't expecting it to end the way it did. I really enjoyed this book and was sad to get to the end. It was one of those books where you kind of miss the characters for a while after reading. Definitely would recommend this book to anyone looking for a great book!


message 61: by Mary (new)

Mary | 1 comments I knew this was going to be one of my new favorite books soon after I started reading, and I was right! Truly didn’t want this story to end. What a gorgeous work of art. The final reveals did (Kya is the poet) and didn’t (Kya killed Chase) shock me. I sort of wish Tate hadn’t been left alone, that they would’ve had a child, but I also wouldn’t change a thing!


message 62: by Katie (new)

Katie Van Alyne I really thought Tate killed Chase from the moment that he gave Kya the red cap.

I was surprised that Kya was the poet as well, but looking back it makes sense why they included all of the poems.

It was a great book overall. I haven't read many negative reviews of it.


message 63: by Jordan (new)

Jordan Culler | 3 comments Months later and I STILL cannot stop thinking about the ending. SO SO SO SOOOOOO good.


message 64: by Rumi (new)

Rumi | 1 comments Loved the book. However, I wish Chase's death was left as a mystery for the readers to go wild with his/her own imagination. I could be mistaken, but did not see anywhere in the book that Kya was a revengeful person. So....


message 65: by Katie (new)

Katie Van Alyne I could see her believing killing him was the way for her to stay safe, but I never quite understood how she was able to cover up the whole crime. Where did she learn to get rid of all the fingerprints?


message 66: by K.C. (new)

K.C. (vsqz) | 2 comments I was so excited to start with this book and I finished it in 2 days. Such an incredible story and great story telling from Delia Owens.

A lot of theories came in to my mind while reading this book. First, I leaned more to the theory that Kya have done it and that nature took care of her tracks/prints in mysterious ways. She took great care of her surroundings and I bet mother nature could feel the love and would take care of her, if she was ever in trouble. Then the red hat that Tate gave her made me doubt about it. Looking back, it was too easy to think that Tate could've done it, but it did put me off the tracks for a minute. When I found out she did it, I was still hoping for some in depth information on how that night happened. Overall, I still loved the way how it ended and I would definitely read it again.


message 67: by Paul (new)

Paul Harrison | 1 comments I loved the book, found it an amazing read, but.... I hated that ending! It felt forced, that the book had tried so hard to convince us it couldn't be Kya that it created huge plot holes by making it her. None more so than on the timings laid out in the trial - Kya knew that she had to be back on the 2.30am bus - with everything on time it would have been immensely tight, yet the bus was 25 minutes late (which itself creates further problems) making the whole thing impossible.
Her defence lists the times -
3 mins walk to the harbour
boat - 20mins -
walk to the tower 8mins
climb 4 mins
waited for chase no time given
Climb down 4 mins
Walk back to boat 8 mins
Boat trip 20 mins
Walk to bus stop 3 mins
He states this is 1hr 7 mins minimum - actually its one hour and 10 minutes. And the attorney states this is the absolute minimum as it includes zero time for Chase to arrive - and we know Kya had to arrive before him in order to open the grate (if she had opened the grate before leaving Berkley Cove and Chase had climbed the tower before her he would have closed the grate before her arrival as it clearly presented a danger - so he had to arrive after her). But its far worse than this - he includes zero time for Kya wiping down the grate and hand rail. He applies zero time for Kya removing all footprints in the middle of the night so effectively that she leaves zero trace that they were ever there. He applies zero time for her to apply a disguise that turned her from a long dark haired twenty something into an elderly lady with a short grey perm convincing enough to fool the driver close up. So that hour and ten is a gross understatement, one would be looking at an hour and twenty at the absolute least. Its suggested that she could have made up the time using rip tides on the boat trip - but in total its a forty minute boat journey, and Kya needs to somehow make up 30mins - this would require her boat to be travelling at four times its normal speed - yet the Shrimpers make zero mention of this, even if it was somehow possible. They don't even mention she seems in a rush. On top of this is the plot hole created by the bus running 25 minutes late - as stated she has to turn up before Chase, even if the bus had been on time, the time frame is incredibly tight and we know she would have had to have contacted Chase before she got on the bus - which means she couldn't have known it would be late - so why on earth, with such a tight time frame did she arrange for Chase to meet her 25 minutes later than she would have expected to arrive leaving her a truly miniscule amount of time to cover her tracks, get back by boat and apply her disguise?
We are told that bringing the time down from 1 hour and 7 minutes to fifty minutes is incredibly tight, but theoretically possible if abnormal rip tides are present - but we know that the time frame had to be more than 1 hour and 7 minutes, making a reduction to fifty minutes impossible - as the additional time not accounted for (covering tracks, removing fingerprints, retrieving necklace, applying disguise) were all after meeting Chase, this means that apparently from the start Kya arranged to meet Chase at a time that would have made it impossible for her to have got back to the station on time, even with incredibly strong rip tides in place which she could not have guaranteed- none of which makes sense.
It was an exceptional book, no question, but that ending created a scenario that defied all logic sadly.


message 68: by Vandana (new)

Vandana Sinha (runnu) | 21 comments I, too, had guessed that Kya was the murderer.... Her brother kept telling her , right in the beginning that he had taught a 6 year old Kya to hide her traces so that she wouldn't ever be caught. It seemed to point to something more than just to get away from school! See that was repeated more than a couple of times so it had to mean something.
And then Chase had this misogynistic streak - not letting Kya's no mean a final no. So he had to die so that she could live in peace.
If I read the book again it will be for the poetry - the tribute to the marshes. The imagery is phenomenal.


message 69: by Carolina (new)

Carolina Pardo | 1 comments What I loved with the ending is that Tate found it and it tied everything together. Tate has always protected or tried to protect Kya until the very end. By him destroying the evidence, he protected her even after she was gone. I was so sad to have finished this book, one of my very favorite books of all time!


message 70: by Liz (new)

Liz | 9 comments Was such a great book!


message 71: by Frank (new)

Frank Settineri (franksett) | 4 comments Wow, you did some intense investigation. I never suspected Kya, although there were clues throughout the story. However the story was so intriguing that I overlooked those clues. Or, more honestly, my insect sized brain was not able to assimilate them (lol). Either way, this was a fantastic novel.


message 72: by Caleigh (new)

Caleigh | 1 comments I suspected Tate until the end.
I really wish we could have gotten a glimpse into what actually went down that night. What went through Kya's mind, what was said between her and Chase. I just hate how that is all a mystery.


message 73: by Janice (new)

Janice Robertson (janrobertson) | 9 comments What book is this that you’re discussing?


message 74: by Kat (new)

Kat | 7 comments Where the crawdads sing


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