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A review by astilbe_225
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
3.25
really not sure what to feel about this.
i listened to the audiobook, so i think my opinions are gonna be slightly different
not gonna lie, i enjoyed this book. did not like that the audiobook narrator, who was white, read out the racial slurs.
i will agree that this book felt like a ton of genres mixed together. romance, crime, all that jazz. and it was quite hard to get into when i first started reading. i was kinda panicking since the person who recommended it to me asked how it was going and i didn’t know what else to say because i was only 9 chapters in
im not too informed on all the racist stuff, but i feel that happened because of the time period that this book was set in. yeah, i do believe the slurs could’ve been taken out though.
again, not too sure what to feel. the final 2 minutes of the book really confused me. like, excuse me????? it felt so sudden and i had no time to process it. i feel the ending can really impact the whole book if it’s way too out of the blue and way too sudden, and that’s what happened here. the friend that recommended it to me also wasn’t too fond of the ending, so we can agree on something here.
yeah, really not sure what to say.
someone i know recommended it to me, but i never noticed all the one star reviews until after i finished reading since i try to avoid spoilers. now i’ve seen them. i’m kinda concerned that there’s some bad history around this book that i don’t know about. if anyone knows the whole deal if there is one, pls tell me i wanna know
so yeah, 3 stars. i’m ill with a cold and i’m also tired. now this book has made me confused as hell on top of that.
edit: i’ve been looking at reviews and another thing i forgot to point out is that there’s just a ton of tropes in here. found family, the two love interests… i will admit i loved the descriptions in here and the writing, but there was a ton of tropes.
also what was the point of the many chapters of the trial proving it’s not her when it turned out to be her after all. i knew straight from the start she covered up the tracks. the author said that. though, with all the info that was being presented, i was convinced kaya was innocent so there would be a nice ending. maybe we could find out who actually killed the asshole. but, apparently it was kaya?? how??? i don’t understand??? there’s absolutely no explanation other than ‘oh damn she can clear tracks’. how did she get to the crime scene? did she do it before she left? i don’t know and i never will.
i listened to the audiobook, so i think my opinions are gonna be slightly different
not gonna lie, i enjoyed this book. did not like that the audiobook narrator, who was white, read out the racial slurs.
i will agree that this book felt like a ton of genres mixed together. romance, crime, all that jazz. and it was quite hard to get into when i first started reading. i was kinda panicking since the person who recommended it to me asked how it was going and i didn’t know what else to say because i was only 9 chapters in
im not too informed on all the racist stuff, but i feel that happened because of the time period that this book was set in. yeah, i do believe the slurs could’ve been taken out though.
again, not too sure what to feel. the final 2 minutes of the book really confused me. like, excuse me????? it felt so sudden and i had no time to process it. i feel the ending can really impact the whole book if it’s way too out of the blue and way too sudden, and that’s what happened here. the friend that recommended it to me also wasn’t too fond of the ending, so we can agree on something here.
yeah, really not sure what to say.
someone i know recommended it to me, but i never noticed all the one star reviews until after i finished reading since i try to avoid spoilers. now i’ve seen them. i’m kinda concerned that there’s some bad history around this book that i don’t know about. if anyone knows the whole deal if there is one, pls tell me i wanna know
so yeah, 3 stars. i’m ill with a cold and i’m also tired. now this book has made me confused as hell on top of that.
edit: i’ve been looking at reviews and another thing i forgot to point out is that there’s just a ton of tropes in here. found family, the two love interests… i will admit i loved the descriptions in here and the writing, but there was a ton of tropes.