Where the Crawdads Sing Crime, Thrillers & Mystery,Thrillers by Delia Owens with 384 pages .

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    Title : Where the Crawdads Sing
    Brand : Delia Owens
    Category : Crime, Thrillers & Mystery,Thrillers
    ISBN : 1472154665
    Page of number : 384 pages
    Publisher : Corsair; 1st edition (12 Dec. 2019)
    Language : English
    Dimensions : 12.6 x 2.8 x 19.4 cm
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Crime, Thrillers & Mystery,Thrillers Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens *The multi-million copy bestseller*Soon to be a major filmA Number One New York Times Bestseller‘Painfully beautiful’ New York Times‘Unforgettable . . . as engrossing as it is moving’ Daily Mail‘A rare achievement’ The Times ‘I can’t even express how much I love this book!’ Reese Witherspoon————————————————-For years, rumors of the ‘Marsh Girl’ have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life – until the unthinkable happens.————————————————-‘[It] will reach a huge audience though the writer’s old-fashioned talents for compelling character, plotting and landscape description’ The Guardian ‘For sheer escapism pick up Where The Crawdads Sing . . . there is writing that takes your breath away’ The Times‘All is not as it seems in this heartbreaking coming-of-age bestseller’ The i newspaper

    This story of a six-year-old child left to fend for herself in a Carolina swamp when her stereotype swamp-trash likker-sluggin’ pa finally doesn’t come home again (we’re not told why – hopefully an alligator ate him), is an exercise in cliches. We are asked to believe that this beautiful (natch), sensitive, artistic blah blah little girl raises herself from barefoot illiteracy to womanhood and published fame as a naturalist, with three self-illustrated books on marshland flora and fauna. She is taught to read and overnight to abandon her swamp patois for highbrow English by, gosh, a boy who falls in love with her, and manages to educate her to university level with some textbooks. Said boy, having achieved this Pygmalion-like transformation, then departs to do his own high-class degree, promising to return to his true love, who hangs around the swamp waiting. But he doesn’t return because alas! he realises she is a wild creature, a child of nature who would never fit into civilisation, and so on. So he passes on coming back to claim her and Swamp Girl’s heart broken. She has a fling with the baddie of the piece, another walking cliche – handsome, privileged, all the girls want to go to the prom with him – and predictably he breaks her heart by marrying an appropriate girl who wears shoes and pearls. Really at this point I was ready to give up on the novel, but there is a murder involved and I wanted to find out whodunnit. The murder itself is just a device and fails hopelessly. The trial is ludicrous, the murder allegations are based on evidence that no prosecuting counsel, fictional or otherwise, would have even remotely considered sound, and the attempts to build suspense during the jury’s deliberations are just plain silly.If this flimsy and wholly ridiculous plot line were in any way to be redeemed, it might have been through quality of writing because of the interesting environment of the swamp and its wildlife, but even in this the novel fails. The only passable passages are indeed the ones in which Ms Owens describes the swamp life. The dialogue is ridiculous, the love scenes are stitched together out of worn-out cliches, and the suspension of disbelief required of the reader is just asking way too much.I have no doubt that Delia Owens is an excellent naturalist and ecologist and an asset to her field. But as a novelist, she doesn’t cut it. Don’t waste your money on this book.

After all the rave reviews I was expecting something exceptional but was completely underwhelmed. I felt the the characters were underdeveloped and the plot rushed and implausible. Wish I’d saved my money and waited until i could pick up a cheaper secondhand copy.

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