Deconstructed by Liz Talley - 4 Stars

 Cricket's life drastically changes when she finds out her husband is cheating on her. Cricket's plans are to hire a private investigator and an attorney and dish out what her husband deserves. But Cricket's plans go awry and she finds herself, along with her new assistant at work, as the PI, trying to catch her husband in the act. 

This was a cute, funny beach read (even if I didn't read it on the beach...lol). The story was fast paced and was told between the POVs of Cricket and her assistant, Ruby. I felt that Ruby's story intertwined with Cricket's well, too. 

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens - 5 Stars

 "For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet fishing village. Kya Clark is barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when the popular Chase Andrews is found dead, locals immediately suspect her.

But Kya is not what they say. A born naturalist with just one day of school, she takes life's lessons from the land, learning the real ways of the world from the dishonest signals of fireflies. But while she has the skills to live in solitude forever, the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. Drawn to two young men from town, who are each intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new and startling world—until the unthinkable happens."

I surprisingly loved this book. I wasn't sure when I first started if it would be one I'd enjoy, but I did. The author keeps you wanting to know what is going to happen next. The story alternates from past to "present" until both timeframes intersect. I flew through the ending of the book, anxious to see what happened.