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Carol Sue
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Mar 10, 2019 07:10PM

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

Definitely a page turner, and would love to read it again for kicks! :)









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.



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.

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.

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.



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.