Where the Crawdads Sing
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Reviewed by Mimi
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I'm always nervous about reading books with a lot of hype and at the start, my nerves were justified. It was a sluggish start where we meet Kya, The Marsh Girl, and flick forward in time to the finding of a body on the marsh where she lives. Kya is a young girl who lives by herself after being abandoned by her family members. Her mother left her father, her siblings escaped his abuse and eventually he left too. She raises herself and with very little support.
Tate and Chase are two boys from the area she has very different relationships and experiences with. It's tumultuous as she is torn between never wanting to be abandoned again but really enjoying the companionship.
The novel certainly improves as it progresses, the way Kya grows up and develops without much intervention is intriguing and I ended up really caring about where she ended up. There are so many different things happening - the development of the romance, the solving of a mystery, and the discrimination of a community but I never felt overloaded or like there was too much going on. It’s a comforting read and I am quite excited to see the adaptation starring Daisy Edgar Jones!
