Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens

 

Where the Crawdads Sing

Author: Delia Owens

Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Mental Health

Pages: 370

Rating: 5/5

ABOUT

"For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet fishing village. Kya Clark is barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when the popular Chase Andrews is found dead, locals immediately suspect her.

But Kya is not what they say. A born naturalist with just one day of school, she takes life's lessons from the land, learning the real ways of the world from the dishonest signals of fireflies. But while she has the skills to live in solitude forever, the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. Drawn to two young men from town, who are each intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new and startling world—until the unthinkable happens.

In Where the Crawdads Sing, Owens juxtaposes an exquisite ode to the natural world against a profound coming of age story and haunting mystery. Thought-provoking, wise, and deeply moving, Owens’s debut novel reminds us that we are forever shaped by the child within us, while also subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.

The story asks how isolation influences the behavior of a young woman, who like all of us, has the genetic propensity to belong to a group. The clues to the mystery are brushed into the lush habitat and natural histories of its wild creatures."

THOUGHTS

This book was a page-turner! I loved the story and how much you could feel with the characters. The book is so well written and left me in shock as I read the last pages. The plot twist was incredible, but it contributed to a more open ending and interpretation. I cannot emotionally put the book down because of how sad the whole story was. Delia Owens has succeeded in making me uncertain. What is right or wrong in a difficult situation? To accept or not?

RECOMMENDATION

I would absolutely recommend this book to anyone in adolescence or older. It could be too dramatic and deep for younger readers.

To sum up – a very special book that makes you think a lot about what is right or wrong.

Review writer: Josefin