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onceuponanisabel 's review for:
Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens
This book is pretty polarizing so I feel like I have to elaborate on my "meh it was fine" review. (Which is what this is).
The Good
- The prose. It's good, fun stuff. There's a lot of artsy nature passages and were pretty to read.
- The plot. I did enjoy the plot. I felt like the murder mystery was done well and I would not have called the end even 10 pages before it happened. I felt really satisfied at the end and I have no regrets about reading this book.
The Bad
- The pacing. I said I liked the plot, which I did, but the problem is that it takes so long to get to it. Most of anything interesting happened once Kya was an older teenager, and while we did need the backstory that Owens provided, I wish it had been more like a quarter of the book instead of half.
- The descriptiveness. I know I said that the prose was pretty, but it was almost gratuitous. I cannot read Austen and other classics authors because they just spend so much time describing things, and this had exactly the same problem for me. Just not my cup of tea.
- The characters. I feel like I got a pretty good sense of our main three characters: Kya, Chase, and Tate. But everyone else really just felt like one-dimensional archetypes instead of fully formed characters I'm meant to care about.
The Ugly
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The Good
- The prose. It's good, fun stuff. There's a lot of artsy nature passages and were pretty to read.
- The plot. I did enjoy the plot. I felt like the murder mystery was done well and I would not have called the end even 10 pages before it happened. I felt really satisfied at the end and I have no regrets about reading this book.
The Bad
- The pacing. I said I liked the plot, which I did, but the problem is that it takes so long to get to it. Most of anything interesting happened once Kya was an older teenager, and while we did need the backstory that Owens provided, I wish it had been more like a quarter of the book instead of half.
- The descriptiveness. I know I said that the prose was pretty, but it was almost gratuitous. I cannot read Austen and other classics authors because they just spend so much time describing things, and this had exactly the same problem for me. Just not my cup of tea.
- The characters. I feel like I got a pretty good sense of our main three characters: Kya, Chase, and Tate. But everyone else really just felt like one-dimensional archetypes instead of fully formed characters I'm meant to care about.
The Ugly
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