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Book Review of Where the Crawdads Sing

Where the Crawdads Sing
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Ummm. What to say. At the library where I volunteer, several patrons recommended this book to me. Normally I stick to mysteries and SF; I tend not to like "chick lit", or anything described as "heartbreaking". But what the heck, with that many people telling me about it I'll give it a try.
So it's got a lot of really nice lyrical descriptions of the marshes, and the swamplands, and the little hardscrabble town. I was on board with Kya's early life, that was pretty interesting, but once she meets Tate the whole thing starts to become unbelievable. The murderer is completely obvious and also unbelievable; the author has not shown us that this person could carry out that plan.
Oh well, the descriptions are pretty nice. And at least I've read it so I can join the social conversation now.