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A review by magicinwords23
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
2.0
This is not about Jacks the Ripper at all. He gets about five lines in total in this book.
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.
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.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Sexual content, Addiction, and Alcoholism