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[deleted] t1_j02azm6 wrote

I may be in the minority but I disliked the ending, not because I wish it was open-ended, but because I wish Kya had not done it. I felt like so much of the book was not just about the marsh and about the need to survive, but also about empathising with Kya, loving her for who she is. That ending, to me at least, went against that, by making her appear to be a lot more cold-blooded than I thought she was, murdering less out of self-defence and more out of vengeance, or if not that then at least hiding it well enough to lie to and get acquitted by a court of law. I get that she had no choice but still, I felt this was thrown it at the end to respect the rules of the whodunnit, it didn't feel natural to me, and it went against who I felt she was. I saw some disagreements on that on other threads too, happy to hear opposite opinions 😊

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Calamity0o0 t1_j03wosx wrote

I felt like it was more self defense. Chase never would have left her alone, he had already attempted to rape her, what would stop him from escalating to murder? Instead of waiting for him to come attack her, she created a situation that she was in control of. I felt it aligned perfectly with who she was, a survivor who since childhood was determined to live and fend for herself.

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[deleted] t1_j040n23 wrote

Those are actually some very good points, thank you. I may have to read it again considering the ending, to see if my initial view of it survives a second read.

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