Michelle Kelley's Reviews > Where the Crawdads Sing

Enjoyable and interesting. Owens does an amazing job with setting, and I was surprisingly engrossed by the rich details of the marsh and its abundance of life. I was fascinated by the slow and detailed development of Kya in the first half of the novel. I loved the time we spent exploring Kya's relationship with her father and her early transformative decisions. But the amazingly pat resolution of her mother's story sounded the alarm for me and simply too much of the second half of the novel seemed overly contrived. 3.5 for me with most of those stars going to the rich and beautifully detailed setting.