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A review by nikitanavalkar
Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco
4.0
This was a refreshing departure from most of the usual YA fiction I read, and that’s what attracted me to it. A horror-ish mystery based on an actual historical story? Sign me up! It’s altogether a different matter that I’d figured out the culprit about halfway through the book, and for once I was right, but that didn’t bother me all that much.
I loved that the author pulls no punches in creating the eerie atmosphere and sets the scene magnificently through her prose. The murder-y are delightfully (ok not delightfully) gory and I didn’t realize how much I was here for it. I felt like I was truly in the dark, foggy streets of London, or the pungent, sterile, decay-y Wadsworth lab throughout.
Audrey Rose Wadsworth is a girl ahead of her time, so I tried to be on board with her sharp edges and her almost overwhelming drive to succeed in her endeavors, sometimes to the detriment of all manner of logic, but she also cray. Ok, all the characters are somewhat cray. To absolutely no one’s surprise, I loved Thomas Cresswell, that shameless, charming, Sherlock-esque rogue. He’s exactly the hero to make me sigh and swoon. I think this series shows a lot of promise and I’m excited to read further!
I loved that the author pulls no punches in creating the eerie atmosphere and sets the scene magnificently through her prose. The murder-y are delightfully (ok not delightfully) gory and I didn’t realize how much I was here for it. I felt like I was truly in the dark, foggy streets of London, or the pungent, sterile, decay-y Wadsworth lab throughout.
Audrey Rose Wadsworth is a girl ahead of her time, so I tried to be on board with her sharp edges and her almost overwhelming drive to succeed in her endeavors, sometimes to the detriment of all manner of logic, but she also cray. Ok, all the characters are somewhat cray. To absolutely no one’s surprise, I loved Thomas Cresswell, that shameless, charming, Sherlock-esque rogue. He’s exactly the hero to make me sigh and swoon. I think this series shows a lot of promise and I’m excited to read further!