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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
44 reviews
pedanther's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, and Classism
Moderate: Murder, Alcoholism, Suicide, Child death, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Trafficking, Physical abuse, Grief, and Infidelity
Minor: Chronic illness, Death of parent, Antisemitism, Mental illness, Abandonment, Forced institutionalization, Rape, and Terminal illness
avidreaderandgeekgirl's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Sexism, Misogyny, Alcoholism, and Alcohol
Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Child death, and Miscarriage
nieva098's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Alcohol, Addiction, Miscarriage, Alcoholism, Child death, and Grief
Minor: Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Trafficking, Death of parent, Infidelity, Sexual harassment, Classism, Medical trauma, and Sexism
louisemcaw's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Death, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Sexual violence, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Murder, and Miscarriage
amelia_douglas's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Misogyny, Trafficking, Death, Alcoholism, and Addiction
Moderate: Medical content, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Medical trauma, and Domestic abuse
Minor: Sexual assault and Miscarriage
isabellaeastwood's review against another edition
3.5
The reader is able to imagine their lives and its provides such an insight into 19th Century Whitechapel. The research is great, and the book flows so well. Even when she has to put caveats, the flow of the story remains intact. There will be times when there was limitations in research or assumptions made using secondary sources. Often Rubenhold has to put her historian hat on and question the newspapers and the inquests written during those times. This is not historical fiction, this is an attempt at writing the history using sources, facts and expertise.
The book is split into five main parts, retelling the life's of the five victims. By the third I was tempted to give this 4/5 stars. I was thinking, 'this might be my first five star read that is fiction'. But alas, I got tired of the rhetoric. I know that when writing essays you have to have 'Point, Evidence, Explain', but constantly reminding the reader that not all of these women were prostitutes got a bit tiring, 'show, don't tell'.
However, this book is very important and I cannot wait to read her other books
"It is only by bringing these women back to life that we can silence the Ripper and what he represents. By permitting them to speak, by attempting to understand their experiences and see their humanity, we can restore to them the respect and compassion to which they are entitled. The victims of Jack the Ripper were never 'just prostitutes'; they were daughters, wives, mothers, sisters and lovers. They were women."
⭐⭐⭐ for story 4/5 ⭐ for the history retelling.
Minor: Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Alcoholism, Body horror, and Death
magibeth's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Misogyny, Alcoholism, Murder, Death, and Classism
Moderate: Miscarriage, Child death, Medical trauma, Grief, Domestic abuse, Infertility, and Death of parent
bthkly's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Alcoholism, Addiction, Death, Murder, Sexual assault, Alcohol, and Domestic abuse
Minor: Trafficking, Miscarriage, Child death, and Pregnancy
funsizesteffi1104's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Addiction and Alcoholism
Moderate: Trafficking, Child death, Miscarriage, Death, Murder, and Child abuse
shelbyslifer's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Alcoholism
Moderate: Abandonment, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Alcohol, Murder, Sexism, Child death, Classism, Death, Misogyny, Child abuse, Addiction, and Domestic abuse
Minor: Antisemitism and Trafficking