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

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

4.0

I love Rubenhold's whole manifesto for this piece, and she accomplishes it in spades. Rubenhold gives these women the best eulogy possible after what is clearly intensive research, and avoids any sort of sensationalism around the stories.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism

Moderate: Murder, Body horror, and Child death

Minor: Sexual content, Trafficking, and Toxic relationship

While this is a book around the Jack the Ripper victims, the focus is primarily on their lives before the murder - the murders themselves are not shown or described in detail, and the horrors of being poor in Victorian London are discussed sympathetically and by necessity.