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Näkymättömät (2013)

by Stef Penney(Favorite Author)

3.62 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

9522790044 (ISBN13: 9789522790040)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Bazar

review 1: Actually more like Three and a half stars. Stef Penney likes to take us to strange and different places. In her first novel, The Tenderness of Wolves, she took us to the wilds of Canada, a place she has never seen except in the libraries of England and Scotland. In The Invisible Ones, she takes us into the world of gypsies, a world few outsiders have ever penetrated. It has the feel of reality but who knows what that world is really like. Private investigator, Ray Lovell, part gypsy himself, is hired to find a woman who has been missing for six years. This introduces him to the family of the Jankos, traveling gypsies with many secrets. He soon finds himself embroiled in several mysteries. A page turner.
review 2: I don't usually read "murder mystery" type books... more, but this one sounded different. It makes for very easy reading, and it's definitely interesting. About halfway through, I sort of had the thought of, "How much more plot could there possibly be to justify another 150+ pages in this book?" Well, as it turns out -- quite a lot. I wasn't exactly trying to figure out the mystery, but I did think I had it figured out at one point, and was wildly wrong.MINOR SPOILERS BELOW:I thought the most interesting part of the book was the shifting POV chapters between the PI and the kid. More specifically, I thought it was fascinating to see the kid's POV and to read a narrator who was struggling to straddle two different communities and cultures. He's sort of bored by his older family members' more intense dedication to the Gypsy lifestyle, although he takes certain things for granted that I as the reader wouldn't (e.g., how oppressive it would be to live "in bricks"). At the same time, he knows he doesn't quite fit in with the gorjios either, and he doesn't seem quite sure he wants to. I thought his interactions with the PI narrator were the best part of the book, and watching him try to untangle his own family's history in the context of a younger, transitioning generation without the usual Gypsy cousins around him to help him through the process -- that was captivating. less

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