Where the Crawdads SingWhere the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I realize I’m going a bit against the grain here with a 3-star (I liked it) rating. I’ve had many people tell me how much they loved this book, best they’ve read this year/ever/etc.
Don’t get me wrong. I did enjoy it, and the author paints a vividly realistic picture of the marsh. But the plot is thin, the characters cliched, the dialects exaggerated (especially with the black characters of Jumpin’ and Mabel), the structure messy, and the ending, while a nice twist, didn’t ring true. And for me to take 2 weeks to read a book is very rare. In other words, it’s not a page turner.
Now, it could be that I expected so much more because of the hype. Whatever the reason, I mark this as “good, not great.”

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GOODREADS RATING SYSTEM:

5: It was amazing

4: really liked it

3: liked it

2: It was okay

1: didn’t like it

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