Emily (Books with Emily Fox on Youtube)'s Reviews > Where the Crawdads Sing

This book is amazing!! It is one of my favourite books that i have read this year

Can’t wait to hear your thoughts on it! Lol I’m #356 on my library waiting list atm

Gaby (lookingatbooks) wrote: "Can’t wait to hear your thoughts on it! Lol I’m #356 on my library waiting list atm"

Can't wait to see if it was worth the long wait haha

It is SO GOOD!!!! I can’t wait for you to read it!

I’m #990, so I am set to wait for a good bit. I hope some of those people are quick readers

O wow, I absolutely loved this book. It was just so natural. Everything about it was so well done.

I'm reading it now and really enjoying it! Luckily my wait was only a couple of months, can't imagine being 200th in a queue, wow.

I started reading it yesterday; I love it, so far! Can`t wait to see/read your opinion about this book <3

It’s on Scribd right now!

That was... Ok. I did NOT see that coming, that's what I call a Plot Twist...

This had over 1000 holds at my library and I also DNF'd it. I just could NOT.

Ah oh? I’m still waiting at my library. Has been using one of my holds spots for a long time.

Hahahah!

Yikes!

Tout ça pour ça :')

Yeah I waited months at the library and thought it was so average. Beautiful nature descriptions but unrealistic characters and lame plot.

I feel the same! Pacing is so slow and I couldn’t pass the first three chapters. Still in my current reading category for over a year now.

Read an article about the corollaries between the novel’s plot and the author’s life – deeply troubling. After that, I lost all interest in ever reading this book.

Gonna start reading this tomorrow.

Sue wrote: "Read an article about the corollaries between the novel’s plot and the author’s life – deeply troubling. After that, I lost all interest in ever reading this book."

Your comment really interested me, so I decided to take a look. Holy yikes...I'll probably still read because I'm intrigued about the connections she made (unwittingly or otherwise), but it sounds like they've got some blood on their hands.

Thank you - I only finished it out of spite. It was nothing special.

You’re not missing anything. The beginning was all right but the ending of this book just made me angry.

Oh dear these comments are going from bad to worse. Should I even start?

I completely understand. I had so many people tell me how great this book was. Then... when I finally got to read it... I was bored... I read the beginning.... skimmed the middle and read the end. It was super MEH.

I liked it but I'm not sure why it got sooo much hype. Maybe I don't read enough adult literary fiction and I just don't get it lol

I’ve seen the hype everywhere, but honestly this book just hasn’t appealed to me at all.

I loved it, but I really enjoy these types of characters and plots. Seems like an odd story to receive so much hype though.

The day I saw you DNFed it was the day I started reading it. I'm glad I made a decision in 2017 to never DNF a book. Some of them I ended up loving after reading until the very end. I'm currently at about 70% of this book and, yes, it's hard to read. It's almost as if nothing happens, but oh boy what a strong character Kya is. Seeing her story and how she grows up to a strong woman is fascinating and at the same time heartbraking. Can't wait to finish it!

I finished it yesterday. It started off so well but it slowly got worse. It didn’t help that the voice used for Kya in the audiobook was bizarre and childish... but the ending?! So ridiculous and impossible! Ugh!

Just returned it to Audible, I found it incredibly boring, thought I was the only one!

Sooooo boring

In my opinion the first quarter is boring AF, but since I was bored I figured I'd push through it. Now I'm 60% through it, and I really enjoy it. Not a five star, definitely not, but a solid 3.5 I think.

Best review yet! I'm enjoying the reviews more than I did the book! Lol. I was hyped about it. Came recommend by many readers....glad I was able to get it on loan from a friend. I hated it. Skimmed over half of it just to finish it after 3 months!

I bought the book recently (in Portuguese)... and I swear...i was thinking “No, i will not Dnf it! it’s me, i had a 365 days Reading slump, it’s meeee, the book is good i just have to be patient ...” Zzzz Honestly, I don’t know how a book so boring is so high rated... for so many people.
But it’s ok...I’ll dnf it anyway.
Nexttt!!!

I’m late to the party with this book, but finally read it because my cousin just finished it and loved it. I was so bored until about the 3/4 mark. I should have DNFed but I kept reading out of spite and it was not worth it. The ending was foreshadowed so hard in the first *boring* quarter of the book.

Did anybody else find the constant insertions of the poems annoying (and yes, I read the whole thing, I know, but I think they hurt more than they help since they made the pacing even slower)?

Yeah I'm listening the audiobook sped up. I want to DNF it, but can't. My mother in law gave the book to me and I have no interest, but I know she will ask about it, so I felt I'll quickly listen to the audiobook while I work so I can be done with it. Not sure why this got all the hype.

Yes I tried. I was already bored by the first sentence...

Ugh that's the worst! I'm bored already, but hoping it turns around.