wimzie's review against another edition

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dark informative sad medium-paced

4.25

chaifanatic18's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

sparkin's review against another edition

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4.0

This book is Important. It brings back some humanity to the discourse around Jack the Ripper by painting a picture of the women believed to have been murdered by them and treating each one as a whole human being with compassion and empathy. It also works as a piece of social history about the lives of poor Londoners in the late 19th century.

This book definitely knows how Important it is, which sometimes shows through in the prose. In some cases it seems so desperate to reiterate that some of the women were not sex workers that it implies an unhelpful disapproval of the sex trade (using 'sex worker' instead of 'prostitute' more often would have helped here). Still, it's about time somebody treated Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Kate and Mary Jane with dignity and this is well worth your time for that.

cabbage_patch's review against another edition

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dark informative sad slow-paced

3.0

yvieharris's review against another edition

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dark informative mysterious slow-paced

3.75

shaila_m's review against another edition

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5.0

Very detailed and a good new refreshing read, it's a good perspective on those victims lives.

elysehdez19's review against another edition

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4.0

Descubrí lo mucho que disfruto de las narraciones sobre true crimen enfocadas en las víctimas y no en los victimarios.

Toda la leyenda que existe alrededor de Jack el Destripador es parte de la cultura popular, creo que en alguna ocasión todos hemos escuchado su nombre y por qué se hizo tan famoso; pero poco se habla de sus víctimas. En realidad ellas siempre han sido un número, una estadística, pero poco sabíamos de quiénes eran, sus gustos o a lo que se dedicaban.

Es por ello que este libro me ha gustado tanto, porque se enfoca totalmente en las cinco víctimas conocidas por este asesino; además que el estilo de la narración hace que todo se sienta como una historia de vida. Eso fue un plus a la historia.

Además, algo que destaco es la manera en como se replantea el hecho de que estas mujeres no eran prostitutas, lo que le da un panorama completamente diferente a lo que la historia nos ha dicho por años.

Realmente disfruté mucho este libro, como dije, me estoy volviendo fan de este tipo de historias.





















librarianlor's review against another edition

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dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.75

julschapman's review against another edition

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2.5

Long, dry, boring, and rambly 

abigailmariexx's review against another edition

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3.0

Great insight into Victorian life but felt it pushed too hard on the ‘they were not prostitutes - absolutely not’ side before admitting some probably were prostitutes at some point and they were all alcoholics. So what?