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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
121 reviews
bookshelfhannah's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Body horror, Grief, Violence, Addiction, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Blood, Classism, Medical content, Murder, Torture, Child death, Gore, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Sexism, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Rape, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, and Pregnancy
bdingz's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Misogyny, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, Child death, Trafficking, and Domestic abuse
Moderate: Suicide
Minor: Sexual content, Miscarriage, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Sexual violence, and Infidelity
yossy_cookie's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Sexism, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Classism, Trafficking, Death, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Addiction, Murder, Misogyny, Grief, Death of parent, and Abandonment
will_cat_books's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Misogyny, Child abuse, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Addiction, Child death, Murder, Classism, Death, and Grief
Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Trafficking
jessi_lou95's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Murder, and Sexism
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Grief, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy
Minor: Chronic illness, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Terminal illness, and Trafficking
mahmabaer's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Child death, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Death, Emotional abuse, Dementia, Bullying, Death of parent, Addiction, Grief, Mental illness, Religious bigotry, Sexual harassment, Abandonment, Abortion, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Murder, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Violence
jhbandcats's review against another edition
5.0
The author focuses on the women, only referring to Jack the Ripper as their murderer. She has done extensive research to find out who these women were and what their lives were like, such that they ended up dead in the gutter. All these women came from working class families but because they were born female, the deck was stacked against them. The smallest setback could literally ruin someone’s life.
By viewing these women with compassion instead of condemnation, we can see who they really were.
Graphic: Child death, Grief, Classism, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, and Murder
taylasreading's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Addiction, Grief, Trafficking, Pregnancy, Murder, Misogyny, Mental illness, Infidelity, Infertility, Domestic abuse, and Sexism
abi_sarah's review
4.0
Hallie Rubenhold really sets the scene of Victorian London and effortlessly introduces each of the victims with the societal norms and prejudices which forced them - in most cases - to live largely unhappy lives. She describes what it’s like to live in workhouses and what little privacy there is for those who live in them - perhaps explaining why now we value privacy so much as a society.
Graphic: Murder and Addiction
Moderate: Alcohol, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, and Drug use
Minor: Physical abuse, Rape, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Chronic illness, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Sexual assault, and Grief
magicinwords23's review against another edition
2.0
The author tells the story of five women from the moment they were born to their death. The stories are very similar, poverty, child loss due to illness, alcoholism, homelessness, work houses and prostitution and to be honest by the third woman’s story I was quite bored.
There is a lot of speculation in this book by the author and not a lot of fact. We are not certain they were killed The Ripper and we are given no details of how or why.
This book was far too long at 348 pages. Not a thumbs up from me on this one I’m afraid.
Graphic: Child death, Sexual content, Addiction, and Alcoholism