emilybakes 's review for:

The Floating Girls by Lo Patrick

2.0

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I'm sorry. I really wanted to like this but you can't start out your description saying that it's close to Where the Crawdads Sing and the main character is a modern-day Scout Finch and not expect the reader to be disappointed with this book. The marsh setting is the only thing similar to Crawdads and Kay is just obnoxious. She doesn't really change or have any meaningful character growth over the course of the book. I kept reading, hoping that the ending would resolve and explain everything. It does suggest what happened but not why it happened or what will happen next.