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Lá, Onde o Vento Chora by Delia Owens

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jl27's review against another edition

3.0

This was my book club's choice for January. I liked this book overall, and read it very quickly.

I appreciated the story of survival Owen delivers. I also liked some of the descriptive writing, but parts of the dialogue and descriptions felt forced, superficial, or overdone, as if Owen was just trying too hard to balance too many things at once. The dialect and the descriptions of food or the other things with the intention of capturing the region/setting were too cutesy, at times. I'm from the south, and I am *completely* over the whole "Suth'n" bit. Also, there are some details about the whole murder plot line in this book that seem to be completely missing from the story, and though some of that exclusion was likely on purpose, parts of it seemed poorly pieced together, or perhaps poorly edited.

All of my criticism aside, I still think this read deserves 3.5 stars for achieving what it set out to do: giving us a glimpse into what life may have been like in that beautiful marsh for someone who was just so alone. Some of the imagery Owen creates is truly beautiful, and the information on native creatures and the ways of the marsh and all the life within it is all really interesting.

In a weird way, I look forward to seeing this story as a movie, when I don't have to think of all of the technical nuances that irritated me as I read this book.

mpruett's review against another edition

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4.0

It was ok but the writing style was jarring, the variety of different font styles on each page was a bit much, and overall I think other books explain much of these topics better.

h3ll3's review against another edition

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inspiring mysterious sad medium-paced

5.0

Dies ist definitiv eine Geschichte, die erst noch ein wenig nachklingen muss. Super atmosphärisch, wunderschön geschrieben und auch die Landschaft ist einem bildhaft vor den Augen. Kya ist so eine einzigartige Figur, dass man richtig mit ihr mitleidet und mitwächst. Ich finde, dass das Ende, gerade die letzten 15 Seiten super krass beschleunigt wurden und der plottwist am Ende, dass sie an dem Mord schuldig war kam wirklich auf der allerletzten Seite, was ich auch ungewöhnlich fand. Ich muss echt noch in mich reinfühlen, wie sehr diese Geschichte noch nachhallen wird. Fakt ist aber, dass ich auf jeden fall etwas spüre und sich irgendwas in mir verändert hat, seit ich diese Geschichte zuende gelesen habe. Wirklich ein sehr einzigartiges, atmosphärisches Buch mit liebe zur natur und ihren Geschenken, was mich genau im richtigen Moment gefunden hat.

cookie89's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.0

Beautiful scenic writing, main character highly intriguing great twist at then end. Slightly slow in parts but still a great read

jennnafziger's review against another edition

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4.0

3.5 Stars
I enjoyed this book, but I am not head over heels for it like everyone else seems to be. The dialogue seemed a bit inconsistent to me, switching between dialects. (I’m never a fan of reading spelled out dialect… just let me imagine what the characters sound like without having to translate.) I also felt many of the characters seemed more like caricatures… a bit one dimensional and cliche.