Where the Crawdads Sing

The book was well written and I liked the writing style. However, I found it extremely hard to believe many of the situations in the book would have played out anything like the author wrote them. I also didn't really know what the book was about when I began reading, but it was essentially a young love story. It had a couple of brief sexual encounters that I didn't really appreciate. And the character was under the age of consent at one of them (although nothing happened).
I was excited to read this book due to it's wild popularity, but ended up not really caring for it. It did seem a bit like YA fiction, and I generally prefer to avoid that genre.