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I'll admit I'm a bit annoyed I wasted a library hold for four months over this book, because why this one is so popular escapes me. We follow Kya, a girl abandoned by her family at a young age who learned how to live alone in the marsh until adulthood. In the meantime, she manages to fall in love twice, get taught how to read, and eventually makes a name for herself.

There's alternating story lines, one in the "present" day about a murder mystery, and the other of Kya's past leading to the present. The murder mystery isn't a big focus in the story until the last 100ish pages, and even then it's not super exciting. In fact, no part of this book is really exciting. It's just a bunch of reading marsh descriptions and Kya feeling lonely and abandoned.

The book was fine, but honestly I felt underwhelmed after all the hype. I will say the "twist" at the end over the murder did catch me by surprise, but I'm not sure that I liked it since it felt a bit cheap.