Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold

47 reviews

katievh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Misogyny, and Sexism

Moderate: Abandonment, Child death, Violence, Domestic abuse, Trafficking, Sexual assault, Miscarriage, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Murder, Death of parent, Infidelity, Infertility, and Terminal illness

liviy0017's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, and Violence

Minor: Death of parent, Excrement, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Trafficking

pollyflorence's review against another edition

dark informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Child abuse, Death of parent, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Trafficking, and Violence

kgrace_s's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Murder, and Violence

odrib's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Suicide, Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexism, and Misogyny

mwreadings's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

Brilliant book, I thoroughly enjoyed learning about the victims of Jack the Riper. It is a bit slow in places as it is a factual history book. The bits J found dry were the parts about finance and spending however it was interwoven and entirely relevant so it’s still worth reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Murder, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Violence

rhiannonxgrace's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad

5.0

What an incredible book. I really enjoy Rubenhold’s writing style and find her to be an easy read, which can’t be said about all historians! This was a rough read, and more than once I had to pause and step away for a little while simply due to the content. But I am so glad I read this. It’s so important to move the focus back on to the womens’ lives and show them as fully fledged people, something that is often discarded when it comes to the Whitechapel murders.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Abortion, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Infidelity, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Murder, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Trafficking, and Violence

rosalind's review against another edition

challenging dark informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

Hardgoing in places and I can’t lie, I’m glad I’ve finished it at last. But I have to give it 4 stars rather than 3 on the strength of the conclusion alone. It feels like a really significant piece of work, a powerful exercise in empathy and, as Rubenhold puts it in the interview included at the back, ‘alchemy or reimagination.’ I hope the Five spirits feel honoured; God rest them, and God forgive us.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Forced institutionalization, Hate crime, Police brutality, Sexism, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Death of parent, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Violence, and Toxic relationship

nila's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.25

Really interesting premise, and I liked the writing style and the mix of facts and reflective passages. It felt a bit repetitive as the author writes about each woman separately and there are many similarities between them. Sometimes I think she went into too many details that just felt like fillers to the story, and many of these parts were filled with assumptions due to lack of findings in her research. The book ends with a conclusive chapter which I thought summed up the whole book quite neatly and I wish it had been longer, as this was the aspect of the book I was the most interested in. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism

Minor: Violence

rosienotjen's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Sexism, Terminal illness, Trafficking, and Violence