These Shallow Graves
von Jennifer Donnelly
A New York Times bestseller from the acclaimed author of A Northern Light and Revolution. This thrilling mystery is perfect for fans of The Cellar and Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls. It's a story of dark secrets, dirty truths, and the lengths to which people will go for love and revenge.Jo Montfort is beautiful and rich, and soon—like all the girls in her class—she’ll graduate from finishing school and be married off to a wealthy bachelor. Which is the last thing she wants. Jo dreams of becoming a writer—a newspaper reporter.Wild aspirations aside, Jo’s life seems perfect until tragedy strikes: her father is found dead. The story is that Charles Montfort shot himself while cleaning his revolver, but the more Jo hears about her father’s death, the more something feels wrong. And then she meets Eddie—a young, smart, infuriatingly handsome reporter at her father’s newspaper—and it becomes all too clear how much she stands to lose if she keeps searching for the truth. But now it might be too late to stop.The past never stays buried forever. Life is dirtier than Jo Montfort could ever have imagined, and this time the truth is the dirtiest part of all.Praise for These Shallow Graves:★ “Action-packed chapters propel this compelling mystery…[and] the injustices Donelly highlights remain all too relevant.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review“Lovely prose, historical intrigue, unique characters and setting. I devoured this book!” —Ruta Sepetys, New York Times bestselling author of Between Shades of Gray and Salt to the Sea“A splendidly hair-raising tour of the brightest and darkest corners of Victorian New York.” —Elizabeth Wein, New York Times bestselling author of Code Name Verity and Black Dove, White Raven“A fast-paced Gilded Age crime thriller.” —Julie Berry, award-winning author of All the Truth That’s in MeFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
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These Shallow Graves
von Jennifer Donnelly
A New York Times bestseller from the acclaimed author of A Northern Light and Revolution. This thrilling mystery is perfect for fans of The Cellar and Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls. It's a story of dark secrets, dirty truths, and the lengths to which people will go for love and revenge.Jo Montfort is beautiful and rich, and soon—like all the girls in her class—she’ll graduate from finishing school and be married off to a wealthy bachelor. Which is the last thing she wants. Jo dreams of becoming a writer—a newspaper reporter.Wild aspirations aside, Jo’s life seems perfect until tragedy strikes: her father is found dead. The story is that Charles Montfort shot himself while cleaning his revolver, but the more Jo hears about her father’s death, the more something feels wrong. And then she meets Eddie—a young, smart, infuriatingly handsome reporter at her father’s newspaper—and it becomes all too clear how much she stands to lose if she keeps searching for the truth. But now it might be too late to stop.The past never stays buried forever. Life is dirtier than Jo Montfort could ever have imagined, and this time the truth is the dirtiest part of all.Praise for These Shallow Graves:★ “Action-packed chapters propel this compelling mystery…[and] the injustices Donelly highlights remain all too relevant.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review“Lovely prose, historical intrigue, unique characters and setting. I devoured this book!” —Ruta Sepetys, New York Times bestselling author of Between Shades of Gray and Salt to the Sea“A splendidly hair-raising tour of the brightest and darkest corners of Victorian New York.” —Elizabeth Wein, New York Times bestselling author of Code Name Verity and Black Dove, White Raven“A fast-paced Gilded Age crime thriller.” —Julie Berry, award-winning author of All the Truth That’s in MeFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
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Rezension von Natália Oliveira<blockquote><b><i>“That was what people did when they wanted to stop a girl from doing something—they shamed her.” </i></b></blockquote> This book was just amazing. I was completely engrossed from the beginning and flew through the pages so fast that I was done in 3 days, even though the edition I have is big. Although the mystery within the book was a simple one, and everything was obvious (I guessed most of the twists from the beginning), it didn't hurt the book at all for me, because the highlight of this and the reason I couldn't put it done were the characters. Jo is my type of female lead - headstrong, brave, smart and cunning. She's a girl ahead of her time, fighting for injustices and what she believes is right - but at the same time, she's scared of this new world she ventured into and doesn't know how to conciliate her life as a society girl and her desire to be a writer and help solve her father's murder. She even manages to be extremely naive sometimes, about things outside her 'bubble' and I found that so funny but it showed just how problematic society was in that time. This book covered some important issues as how society viewed women at that time (and still do in some ways to these days), feminism, carving your own path, injustice and prejudice. Jo is one of the few white privileged characters in YA literature (or literature in general) who actually becomes aware of her own privilege and actually do something about it, even though it's so little - defending a girl from one of the prostitution houses against a harsh and abusive client, trying to expose exploration of female workers, helping Fay, a pickpocket girl of the slums escape the Taylor and her fate. She goes ahead and uses her voice to shed a light on those issues. I loved her chemistry with Eddie, and their romance was so cute and right. They compliment each other well and I actually liked how they ended up. The ending shows that not everything is black and white and pretty perfect for everyone - you have to build your own future and carve your way to happiness (and happily ever after is not something given to you, you have to work for it every day). I liked Donnelly's writing, it had a nice pace and flow to it, and I loved the atmosphere she created and how she made me feel like I was actually in the 1800's. I can't wait to read her Waterfire saga now, just to see how she builds these new characters and works with this new world. A surprising book and among one of the bests I read this year! I'm so happy to have picked it up! Thank you Andrea, for suggesting this to me a while ago!