Book Review Where The Crawdads Sing

This review of where the crawdads sing by delia owens is for the small percentage of readers who didn t like it to let you know you re not alone.

Book review where the crawdads sing. I liked that we saw things through her eyes at each junction of her life. Where the crawdads sing by delia owens review in the swamps of north carolina this lush debut about an isolated girl who finds education and solace in nature is already a us bestseller. Kya was strong will smart resourceful and very independent but lonely.

Review written by donna everhart. Kya was my favorite character. Where the crawdads sing 2018 there was a lot of hype around delia owens debut novel where the crawdads sing and i had heard from multiple friends and online reviews that it was an earth shattering read.

Where the crawdads sing is a book that has been all over social media so i was intrigued to have a read and see what everyone was talking about. However i approached with caution. Click to read the full review of where the crawdads sing in new york journal of books.

Atmospheric and tumultuous owens writing is dreamy. Where the crawdads sing is a gentle yet symbolic depiction of the valiant survival of kya clark a reclusive young girl who has been abandoned by her parents siblings school system the entire town surrounding her and what ultimately feels like life itself. Her character development was very done well.

I didn t want to build up the expectation in my head only to be. For one i have not done the very hard work of finishing a novel much less have had one published. The story starts out with a mystery when a town s favourite son chase andrews falls to his death.

The longer i have my book blog the more reticent i am to write negative reviews. Within a year and a half where the crawdads sing had topped the sunday times bestsellers list sold over four million copies and earned reese witherspoon s stamp of approval as she added it to her acclaimed book club and with her production company won the film rights to it. The talented bennett fuels her fiction with secrets first in her lauded debut the mothers 2016 and now in the assured and magnetic story of the vignes sisters light skinned women parked on opposite sides of the color line.