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Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco

18 reviews

fremzz's review

adventurous dark mysterious 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? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gore, Medical content, Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Drug abuse and Drug use

Minor: Alcohol, Animal death, and Torture

Slight spoilers for first and second book The drug use/abuse is referring to her father's use of opium and Thomas’s smoking (although I’ve read he stops in the second book)

rose_88's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Second time reading this book, and it’s just as amazing the second time.  I loved the dynamic between Audrey Rose and Thomas, as well as how the author was able to make their interactions to not be filled with sexism like many others during the time period.

I loved how Audrey Rose reacted to “the men in her life trying to chain her”, first with her Father keeping her in the house, then with Nathaniel when her Father was absent, even Blackburn when the only reason he wanted her help was the try and win her affections and marry her.

I loved how she constantly talked back to men trying to put her down because of her gender, and how she did it both politely and rudely at times.

I really enjoyed how the author foreshadowed Nathaniel as  Jack the Ripper, as this was a reread I already knew but while reading i noticed so many things I had missed, like how nervous he got anything the police were near, as well as how much he hated Audrey Rose’s involvement when things got more complicated and more murders occurred.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Medical content, Medical trauma, Blood, Misogyny, Sexism, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Drug use

cepbreed's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

All around I don’t know what to think of this book. I definitely expected more, but it wasn’t flat. Decent characters and effort put into the mystery aspect but the twist reveal didn’t do it for me. The description of the victims and especially that last scene in the laboratory have really followed me. The gore isn’t needless but it’s a LOT and I appreciate that for a book I got into expecting a lot of romance and only a bit of filler on the murders end. I didn’t know too much besides the bare bones details on the Jack the Ripper case so when I saw what the author had written in the acknowledgments I was really surprised. It makes me so happy to see so much thought put into the real life details. It’s even more commendable on a case so old and in a book that involves so many fictional people/elements.

Song: 

• Alleyways - The Neighbourhood 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Stalking, Death of parent, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Addiction, Alcohol, Death, Drug abuse, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, and Sexism

estellejacksons's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Violence, Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Classism, Death, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Cannibalism and Vomit

jules_c's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Medical content, Murder, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Suicide, and Addiction

Minor: Alcoholism, Addiction, Alcohol, and Animal death

shelfdelight's review

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, and Vomit

Minor: Addiction, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

swimmermenitro's review

adventurous challenging dark funny informative mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death, and Blood

Minor: Addiction and Alcohol

I ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS BOOK. Very graphic at times but so fantastic nonetheless.

mybookthrone's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Torture