Reviews with content warning for Drug abuse - Jack Spintecătorul. Crimele din Whitechapel

This is a series I was excited to start just because of the title, I didn’t even need to read the description to want to pick it up. I really love the concept of using a real-life event for a fiction book. I loved having a female character in the 1800s who wasn’t typical. While some of the “I’m not like other girls” trope was played up a bit, I still liked it.

I think one of my biggest issues with the book is the fact that I figured out who the killer was halfway through the book. While I didn’t have every detail figured out, I was pretty close. As this is a mystery book, I’m not too big of a fan when I can guess who it is but I digress.

I also was a bit annoyed with Audrey Rose throughout the book. With her constant back and forth on who did it, her inner dialogue, for the most part, was just her going back and forth on the killer as well as wondering why she finds a man attractive. . . it’s because you’re 17 girlfriend, what did you expect?

And her love interest who she has decided she shouldn’t like but sorta does is very one-dimensional. The reader barely gets any information about it him so I’m a bit confused about how Audrey Rose has somehow fallen for the man who is a concrete wall of emotions.

She just seemed to stumble upon clues throughout the book like hello??

I swear I did enjoy parts of this book and while others have said it’s slow and boring, I thought the pacing was fine and I did like the story. I have the next two books so I’m definitely going to continue the series. I just hope the mystery will be a bit harder to solve and I hope we see

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.75

Overall Thoughts:
⁕ The amount of gore in the book was astronomical, and I enjoyed how sickeningly fascinated Audrey is by it. For a YA book, such characterization really stood out to me.

⁕ I did not like Thomas at all. I didn’t understand the motivation for his actions, he’s annoyingly arrogant, and the author uses his “power of deduction” to act as a plot device when, in reality, his ability to pluck the right answers out of thin air is a bit ridiculous.

⁕ I’m unsure about calling this a feminist text. I like the message that girls can care about looks and also be smart/strong. Still, Maniscalco portrays the other female characters as less than Audrey because of their traditionally “feminine” interests.

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