Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens is a murder mystery, but at its heart it is about loneliness and the importance of human companionship. I loved the way Owens weaved in the setting alongside the characters and their motivations. That was beautiful. Crawdads is not a book you get into right away and at first I almost put it down. The character of Kya, the protagonist, is fairly flat despite the drama, and abandonment in her life. I never really got a sense of Kya feeling her emotions. The dialogue was not spectacular, and comes to my mind in a long list of "thank yous" without a lot of sincerity. However, for me, ending is everything. And this book has a spectacular ending, so all is forgiven and I highly recommend this book.
Note: Read this book. I listened to it on audio and had to speed it up because the speaker dragged the vowels out somewhere towards the middle of the ocean. I'm from N.C. and am unaware of folks talking like that. It was a little weird.
