These Shallow Graves by Jennifer Donnelly
These Shallow Graves by Jennifer Donnelly
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Jo Montfort is a beautiful young woman from a wealthy family that will be expected to marry someone up to her family’s standards as soon as she finishes finishing school. Jo however has always idolized the trailblazing Nellie Bly so Jo really wants to be a newspaper reporter but that is harder than it sounds in the 1890’s.
When Jo receives news that her father accidentally shot himself while cleaning his gun Jo immediately questions just what had really happened. Jo’s father had been very familiar with gun safety and there was just no way Jo believes he would accidentally leave the gun loaded. Jo decides that in order to get the answers she will start investigating herself.
These Shallow Graves was a rather well written historical mystery novel that features a strong female that doesn’t want to go with the arranged marriage that is expected of her and wants to live the life she has always dreamed of regardless of her being a woman. The death in her family gives her the opportunity to get a taste of what it’s like to be a reporter and also introduces her to a lot of colorful characters.
As far a the historical factor and the romance I really enjoyed this story. I found the mystery part of it a tad bit easy to figure out though but there are a few twists and turns to the wrap up that were a nice surprise. Perhaps the book also could have been a bit shorter as it did seem to slow down a bit for me in the middle with it being so lengthy but overall it’s a really good read.
Carries Book Reviews 
I really liked this also Carrie. Jennifer Donnelly is one of my favorite historical fiction authors for both YAs and adults.
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I’ve wanted to pick this one up since I saw it on Netgalley last year, got one of those “too many” mails for it at that time.
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This sounds really interesting! And I love that cover!
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The cover is what caught my attention to start with but I also saw a lot of good reviews so had to check it out. Pretty good read so I’m glad did. 🙂
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Awesome- thanks for the recommendation 🙂
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Hope you enjoy it! 🙂
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I’ve heard really good things about this one! That cover is very alluring too… Add one more to the TBR pile 😅
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Haha I know that feeling, I wanted to do this one after seeing other reviews myself. Hope you like it if you get the chance to read it. 🙂
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I got this book for Christmas and still haven’t read it. I really need to get to it. It sounds awesome! thanks for the great review!
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Haha sounds like something I would do, I put off the ones I own and read mostly from Netgalley. 🙂
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