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Invisible City (Rebekah Roberts) (original: 2014; edição: 2014)

de Julia Dahl

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"Just months after Rebekah Roberts was born, her mother, an Hasidic Jew from Brooklyn, abandoned her Christian boyfriend and newborn baby to return to her religion. Neither Rebekah nor her father have heard from her since. Now a recent college graduate, Rebekah has moved to New York City to follow her dream of becoming a big-city reporter. But she's also drawn to the idea of being closer to her mother, who might still be living in the Hasidic community in Brooklyn. Then Rebekah is called to cover the story of a murdered Hasidic woman. Rebekah's shocked to learn that, because of the NYPD's habit of kowtowing to the powerful ultra-Orthodox community, not only will the woman be buried without an autopsy, her killer may get away with murder. Rebekah can't let the story end there. But getting to the truth won't be easy--even as she immerses herself in the cloistered world where her mother grew up, it's clear that she's not welcome, and everyone she meets has a secret to keep from an outsider. In her riveting debut, journalist Julia Dahl introduces a compelling new character in search of the truth about a murder and an understanding of her own heritage"--… (mais)
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Título:Invisible City (Rebekah Roberts)
Autores:Julia Dahl
Informação:Minotaur Books (2014), Edition: First Edition, Hardcover, 304 pages
Coleções:Sua biblioteca
Avaliação:****
Etiquetas:Julia Dahl, crime fiction, New York City

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As a mystery, it wasn’t particularly mysterious. Villain became obvious before the half-way point.

The heroine is an annoying, incompetent, thoughtless girl starting a job as a free-lance journalist in NYC. In spite of her best efforts, she can’t seem to manage simple interview questions or gather basic information. She goes to the city in hopes of meeting her Orthodox Jewish mother who abandoned the family when she was an infant. Her obsessive near-hatred for a woman she never met and who never played any role in her life borders on the psychopathic. At times, the writing began to smack of anti-semiticism.

The author spent a bizarre amount of time exploring how anxiety disrupted the girl-reporter’s digestive system. I don’t find reading about every intestinal gurgle or twitch particularly entertaining. The frequency with which this twenty-something turned to popping a pill to deal with stress is alarming, to say the least.

There were a couple of gratuitous sex scenes that did zero for the plot or any development. As with the description of physical reactions to anxiety, the author seems to struggle with handling a sex scene. Their appearances were abrupt, as were their endings. They were pointless and poorly done. They should not have been included.

Overall, a disappointing story not very well told. ( )
  AMKitty | Feb 10, 2022 |
The first in a new series, this introduces Rebekah, a journalist who is assigned a murder story in a very cloistered Hassidic community in Brooklyn, where local rules bear more weight than city police and laws. ( )
  sleahey | Oct 28, 2018 |
Two and a half stars. I quite enjoyed this book, all the way up until the end. It was a good mystery and an interesting read--I feel like I learned a good bit about journalism basics and ultra-orthodox Jewish culture.

However: I absolutely hated the ending because it fell into tired cliches. Due to that alone, I would not recommend this book. ( )
  whatsmacksaid | Sep 21, 2018 |
The writing was flat and not at all stimulating. This is the kind of prose I would have enjoyed forty eight years ago in high school. Average at best. ( )
  briellenadyne | Jan 24, 2018 |
Found as 2015 Shamus Award Finalist. Book 1 of a series. Rebekah, not strictly a private investigator but a reporter, chases a story and solves a murder in the NYC Hasidic community. Excellent story and writing. Well worth following. ( )
  rwt42 | Sep 22, 2016 |
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"Just months after Rebekah Roberts was born, her mother, an Hasidic Jew from Brooklyn, abandoned her Christian boyfriend and newborn baby to return to her religion. Neither Rebekah nor her father have heard from her since. Now a recent college graduate, Rebekah has moved to New York City to follow her dream of becoming a big-city reporter. But she's also drawn to the idea of being closer to her mother, who might still be living in the Hasidic community in Brooklyn. Then Rebekah is called to cover the story of a murdered Hasidic woman. Rebekah's shocked to learn that, because of the NYPD's habit of kowtowing to the powerful ultra-Orthodox community, not only will the woman be buried without an autopsy, her killer may get away with murder. Rebekah can't let the story end there. But getting to the truth won't be easy--even as she immerses herself in the cloistered world where her mother grew up, it's clear that she's not welcome, and everyone she meets has a secret to keep from an outsider. In her riveting debut, journalist Julia Dahl introduces a compelling new character in search of the truth about a murder and an understanding of her own heritage"--

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