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A review by sarah_kilcline
Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco
4.0
Wow this book was something!
At first I was expecting a much more historically based mystery with some slight creative liberties to make it seem solved or wrapped up in an implied way; however, that expectation ended quickly. It’s maybe 3% historically influenced and then the rest is just creative liberties and I really enjoyed it! I have a lot of thoughts about the ending and how it’s interweaves another dark tale, but I can’t really talk about them without spoiling the details of the book! Overall, this story takes Jack the Ripper in a whole new and unexpected direction and I loved it I won’t lie, up until the end, I was ready to put this series down to come back to at a later date but now I’m contemplating hard my next read lol.
With that being said, the first 75% of the book is a bunch of circling inner dialogue from the main character, who happens to be the most dramatic character in the book and seriously needs to think before jumping to her first conclusion… also she pukes literally any time something is even slightly upsetting lol! She might need to find a new line of work if gruesome dead bodies and the darkness of human kind are too much for her apparently weak stomach…. Anyway, the last bit is then just gore and fast paced plot twists and it made the story feel a little too drawn out just to be fast forwarded in the end.
All in all, if the book was 30-50 pages shorter and with a more direct focus instead of giving the reader ADHD via the main character (which made it exhausting to read as a true adhd’er myself), I would have given it a 5. This was a ballsy take on a well known mystery and I think the author was quite successful at it!
At first I was expecting a much more historically based mystery with some slight creative liberties to make it seem solved or wrapped up in an implied way; however, that expectation ended quickly. It’s maybe 3% historically influenced and then the rest is just creative liberties and I really enjoyed it! I have a lot of thoughts about the ending and how it’s interweaves another dark tale, but I can’t really talk about them without spoiling the details of the book! Overall, this story takes Jack the Ripper in a whole new and unexpected direction and I loved it I won’t lie, up until the end, I was ready to put this series down to come back to at a later date but now I’m contemplating hard my next read lol.
With that being said, the first 75% of the book is a bunch of circling inner dialogue from the main character, who happens to be the most dramatic character in the book and seriously needs to think before jumping to her first conclusion… also she pukes literally any time something is even slightly upsetting lol! She might need to find a new line of work if gruesome dead bodies and the darkness of human kind are too much for her apparently weak stomach…. Anyway, the last bit is then just gore and fast paced plot twists and it made the story feel a little too drawn out just to be fast forwarded in the end.
All in all, if the book was 30-50 pages shorter and with a more direct focus instead of giving the reader ADHD via the main character (which made it exhausting to read as a true adhd’er myself), I would have given it a 5. This was a ballsy take on a well known mystery and I think the author was quite successful at it!