A review by expecto_padronum
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

PROS: 
  • The writing is exquisite. It’s lose-yourself-in-the-story beautiful. 
  • Good character development for lovable (and hateable!) characters  
  • The ending had my heart racing / hands sweating / all the feelings a murder mystery makes you feel 
  • chapter titles!!! This is trivial but I just love when chapters have titles 

CONS: 
  • it is SLOWWWW up until the last third or so. This wasn’t an issue for me - personally I loved really sinking in to this world - BUT I recognize that for most people this is definitely a con. 
  • Questionable age gaps between teenage love interests that I felt were unnecessary,, the same effect could have been achieved with smaller age gaps 
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