Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens is a beautiful meditation on life in the Marshlands of the North Carolina coast. It is also a coming of age story, a love story and a murder mystery. I loved Owen’s descriptions of the natural beauty of the place, it was haunting, wonderful, mysterious, sometimes scary and lonely, I felt transported there.

However, I didn’t love the ending of this book. After such a long slow unfolding, everything was wrapped up too quickly in the last few pages. It didn’t feel right or satisfying in any way. Overall a great read with a disappointing ending.