Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Did Taylor Swift send me here....yes. 
I have a very specific way I want this story to go, and if it doesn't go that way, I don't know if I'll ever be happy again. 
So like....the last like...paragraph ruined me, and I don't know how to handle it....Is it because I love Tate and because he's precious...yes.
400 Pages

2021 Reads -- Nora

Inheritance Cycle, Christopher Paolini, 2782. (4 books) This series got me through my final senior semester. It's an old favorite and I have always loved the relationship between Eragon and Saphira and was one of the first books I read that sparked my love of dragons.

Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens, 370. I wanted to read this ever since it rose to popularity a year or so ago and I can say I was not disappointed. The story switches between the mystery surrounding the murder of a community member and the story of a girl trying to survive on her own out on the bayou. Both stories progress together until they merge for the final few chapters.

The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, Leigh Bardugo, 1215. (3 books) I re-read this series because Netflix was announcing its adaption to television. I fell in love with the world that Bardugo had created in this trilogy and now cannot wait to see how she continues to build it in the next series she is writing in the same universe.

 

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, Christopher Paolini, 856. I don't often read space epics but this one came highly recommended and it absolutely blew me away with the story, imagery, and characters. Kira discovers an ancient alien relic that becomes bonded to her, just in time for war to erupt in her star system with the relic somehow being the key to either saving everything Kira knows and utterly destroying the universe.

Red Queen Series, Victoria Aveyard, 2048. (4 books) While this series contains many of the usual love triangle-dystopian novel tropes, the twists definitely make it worth a read. It contains a society divided between a red blooded people and silver blooded nobility who have strange powers that they use to suppress the "Reds" until one red girl who has lightning in her hands changes everything.

Read by Nora Wesselmann