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I enjoyed reading the book but I was really surprised by the ending of the book. After they announced Kya not guilty, I trusted her and start thinking that it might be Tate who killed Chase. When I realized that Kya was dead, I thought the author won’t tell the reader who actually killed Chase. When I read till the last page, I was surprised. Not only because Kya killed Chase, but also that Kya is Amanda the poet. I feel like Kya isn’t that isolated from the world after knowing she’s the poet even though she is still scared to let other people know who she really is.

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I was extremely surprised by the book's ending. As she pleads not guilty and continues with the rest of her life, she is able to stay true to herself and continue publishing books. The town also started to acknowledge her and changed their opinions of her. It really caught me off guard after it revealed that she was the murderer.

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Clara ’s reaction
I was really disappointed and angered by the end of the novel because Kya’s murder of Chase only confirmed the stereotypes that the townspeople placed on her. The townspeople always believed that the Marsh Girl was dangerous and maybe even violent, and instead of a complete character arc of Kya’s at the end that proves she is not what they say but instead a gentle and hurt creature, the ending sets her character development back.

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The ending surprised me and disappointed me at the same time. I did not expect Kya to be a murderer. I think that she showed her through nature in the end, but it was already late for her to get jurisdiction. She took her thirty-year-old secret to her grave.
This book opened up my eyes to criminology as a genre significantly.

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I enjoyed the book as it was written differently than most traditional books - the jumping between years made it more intriguing to the reader. I think for me when figuring out who did the crime, the author at the beginning of the book made it very clear that it was Kya, as she spent the first half of the book described her family's past and her current situation. However, what kept me motivated to continue reading was that we never knew how the murder happened.

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The non-linear telling of the story made my reading experience very intriguing and enjoyable. It reminded me of Christopher Nolan's films, which play with the element of time very similar to Where the crawdads sing. I was surprised that my very initial guess of Kya being the killer turned out to be correct, as my only reasoning back then was that the focus on her was entirely meant for us to develop connect with the character that would make us look at the murder case from a point of view that is sympathetic with the murderer.

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Did Owens play fair with the reader? Were the clues given? Was justice served in the end?

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Is this a coming of age story? even though this is a murder story is it also a coming of age? Does a coming of age story always have to start with absent parents? I've been thinking that maybe if her parents where around when she was a kid she would have murdered chase.

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This is a very unique type of crime fiction, with a primary focus on ethics and humanity instead of the unveiling of truth.
The allocation of crime-related and growth related is unbalanced, Owens seems to be defending Kya by emphasizing her past and margining her facts of murder.
Features of crime fiction can still be found in this book, like forming misguiding red-herrings.
This story also seems very realistic to me, because no character is perfect or close to perfect; they all make mistakes and have prejudices.

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The end of where the crawdads sing was especially thrilling. The most exciting part of the book was probably following the court room proceedings and watching the State's case against Kya unravel while it became even clearer that she must've been the murderer.

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The story makes me watch Kya growing up and all the challenges she has been through, which makes me lean toward Kya's side even though I know it's probably Kya who murders Chase. When I was reading the chapters in the court, I keep thinking if Kya is right to kill Chase, and should Kya be sentenced with death penalty even though she murders Chase. At first I thought she shouldn't be sentenced because Chase kind of deserves it. However, after thinking about it more, I start to think Kya deserves the sentence because all of the murderer has their own motivation, which makes all the cases understandable, but it doesn't justify the murder.

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The ending of the book shows how even though Kya became more accustomed and opened to human interactions, she still kept part of herself to herself only.  Not only did she hid her crime away from everyone, she also continued to publish poems  under a pen name. As Tate threw the shell necklace into the ocean, it represents the return to nature after death.

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I think that the death of Chase and his murderer was pretty expected, but I did not expect the community to "feel bad" for her for being "wrongfully accused".

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Lana's reaction to Where the Crawdads Sing

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Lana's reaction to Where the Crawdads Sing

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As I read more and more of the novel, I could easily piece together ideas to make it seem it was Kya that murdered Chase. To me, it was not a surprise that Kya did end up being the murderer. I am still confused whether Tate is upset that it did end up being Kya (because he burned the necklace) or did he love her so much that he is happy to protect her? Overall, I really liked watching Kya develop into a woman and become more mature in a sense.

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From the beginning of this book I had a strong idea on who murdered Chase. I expected the story to be boring, based off the begging as well. However reading the last 3 chapters was really great. My jaw was basically dropped the whole time and I think the author wrote the best possible ending that there could have been. When the judge made their conclusion in court, it was pretty unexpected in my opinion, but it made me extremely content with the book.

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