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Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
4.0
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I am happily joining everyone else by heaping praise on Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. I know I'm a bit late to the game on this one, but I just never got around to it – now, I'm so happy I did! It's a wonderfully written story, with just a hint of mystery (the perfect amount for me the perpetually scaredy-cat, actually) and a lot of really beautiful descriptive language. I do think the beginning is a bit slow, so if you've tried this one and thought it wasn't for you, I'd recommend reading until at least page 100 before you give up – it took me a little while to get into the story, but one I was in, I was totally hooked!
I appreciated that Owens managed to keep the pace of her storytelling as the story's tension builds, so as you're eager to follow the story, the chapters become shorter and choppier but also more manageable, which felt perfect with how quickly I wanted to page through everything. The problems facing women in this book, despite the fact that it's set in the 1960s/70s, are still so relevant and that made me so sad and so frustrated, but also like empowered in an odd way? I haven't quite figured that one out yet, to be honest. Also, wow, Tate, let's add him to the list of "men who don't exist in the real world but I definitely wish they did."
Did anyone else find the ending a little disappointing? I don't want to spoil anything, but it's definitely not the ending I was expecting! I was kind of sad about it actually, even though I get why Owens chose the ending she did. I think this would be a great book to start introducing into schools too, there's so much to talk about that could really engage kids and build excellent literature skills for them to take into their future studies.
I am happily joining everyone else by heaping praise on Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. I know I'm a bit late to the game on this one, but I just never got around to it – now, I'm so happy I did! It's a wonderfully written story, with just a hint of mystery (the perfect amount for me the perpetually scaredy-cat, actually) and a lot of really beautiful descriptive language. I do think the beginning is a bit slow, so if you've tried this one and thought it wasn't for you, I'd recommend reading until at least page 100 before you give up – it took me a little while to get into the story, but one I was in, I was totally hooked!
I appreciated that Owens managed to keep the pace of her storytelling as the story's tension builds, so as you're eager to follow the story, the chapters become shorter and choppier but also more manageable, which felt perfect with how quickly I wanted to page through everything. The problems facing women in this book, despite the fact that it's set in the 1960s/70s, are still so relevant and that made me so sad and so frustrated, but also like empowered in an odd way? I haven't quite figured that one out yet, to be honest. Also, wow, Tate, let's add him to the list of "men who don't exist in the real world but I definitely wish they did."
Did anyone else find the ending a little disappointing? I don't want to spoil anything, but it's definitely not the ending I was expecting! I was kind of sad about it actually, even though I get why Owens chose the ending she did. I think this would be a great book to start introducing into schools too, there's so much to talk about that could really engage kids and build excellent literature skills for them to take into their future studies.