A review by elerireads
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

4.0

This is quite a tricky one to review tbh - I debated just rating it and leaving it at that. Overall it was quite a hopeful book, about discrimination and isolation and loneliness, yes, but also about finding solace and self-sufficiency in nature, and being able to trust people even when you've been left and betrayed and let down by everyone. On a surface level it's a murder mystery, but it's apparent from the beginning that the murder is just our starting point in unravelling the true mystery, which is Kya herself. For some reason, what stuck with me more than anything else was her mother's painting of Tate and Kya - the discovery that her first remembered encounter with him was not actually the first time they had met and therefore that they had known each other longer than she could even remember.