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A review by riyabhatia15_
Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco
2.0
2.5 ⭐️
Love it when a book about history and science is inaccurate in both departments. Audrey Rose is biracial, her mother was Indian. A britisher to marry an Indian woman at the time when Britain was overruling India is rare and I would have liked to know how that happened. And when it pretends to have a feminist main character who is trying so hard to be ‘not like other girls’ by pulling other women down and being a brat and was just plain rude and the epitome of the meme ‘in case you haven’t noticed I’m weird. I’m a weirdo. I don’t fit in’. The main character doesn’t really solve anything, she just stumbles upon stuff. Let’s talk about the love interest. Thomas Cresswell. Oh boy. Now, things are different when it comes to ‘dark’ romances but this wasn’t one. This is YA. Where we are supposed to like this obnoxious man child who is just plain old rude. I like a good enemies to lovers but this wasn’t even that. This was just Audrey Rose (our main character) falling for a jackass. Girl, you do you. But maybe not the right message to the younger audience it’s based for. Now for the good part. What I did like about the book was it being fast paced and the villain’s motive. (Which ofcourse the real Jack The Ripper’s true motives are still unknown and is rather different than the Jack The Ripper in this book) Driven to insanity by grief so much so that he becomes murderous and tries resurrection of his mother’s rotting corpse with organ transplant and electric shock. I had fun reading this, even though it had issues. I had fun making a joke out of the main character and I will definitely read the next book because all I want is a good time.
Love it when a book about history and science is inaccurate in both departments. Audrey Rose is biracial, her mother was Indian. A britisher to marry an Indian woman at the time when Britain was overruling India is rare and I would have liked to know how that happened. And when it pretends to have a feminist main character who is trying so hard to be ‘not like other girls’ by pulling other women down and being a brat and was just plain rude and the epitome of the meme ‘in case you haven’t noticed I’m weird. I’m a weirdo. I don’t fit in’. The main character doesn’t really solve anything, she just stumbles upon stuff. Let’s talk about the love interest. Thomas Cresswell. Oh boy. Now, things are different when it comes to ‘dark’ romances but this wasn’t one. This is YA. Where we are supposed to like this obnoxious man child who is just plain old rude. I like a good enemies to lovers but this wasn’t even that. This was just Audrey Rose (our main character) falling for a jackass. Girl, you do you. But maybe not the right message to the younger audience it’s based for. Now for the good part. What I did like about the book was it being fast paced and the villain’s motive. (Which ofcourse the real Jack The Ripper’s true motives are still unknown and is rather different than the Jack The Ripper in this book) Driven to insanity by grief so much so that he becomes murderous and tries resurrection of his mother’s rotting corpse with organ transplant and electric shock. I had fun reading this, even though it had issues. I had fun making a joke out of the main character and I will definitely read the next book because all I want is a good time.