Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

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

10 reviews

misskatya13's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Gore, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Medical trauma, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

pandin's review

challenging dark emotional informative tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

bdingz's review against another edition

dark informative sad slow-paced

4.5

Not only does this book paint a picture of Jack the Ripper’s victims, it gives the reader a very good idea of what life was like for middle and working class people in Victorian England. A fascinating and heartbreaking read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Trafficking, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Infidelity, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Forced institutionalization, and Murder

mahmabaer's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense slow-paced

4.0

I enjoyed it for the most part and the author's basic theory

that all the women were not prostitutes

, does give one something to consider.  I do wish she hadn't been so heavyhanded in her attempt to find no blame towards the women themselves, as it makes it come across as if she is less interested in telling the stories of the five victims and more interested in proving her point.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, Trafficking, Grief, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

eve81's review

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

pedanther's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Suicide, Trafficking, Grief, Murder, and Pregnancy

Minor: Chronic illness, Mental illness, Rape, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Antisemitism, Death of parent, and Abandonment

revived_reading's review

dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

The way Hallie Rubenhold writes, you can feel every single emotion she tries to convey. From dread to a bit of hope to powerless. 

This book opens your eyes not only to the lives of these 5 women, but to the lives of many, many women in the Victorian era. 

Hallie Rubenhold truly gave back these women their stories and their lives. She gave them the respect they were never given. She gave them justice. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Death of parent

mattyyreadsbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Violence, Trafficking, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

vixenreader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

It is good to see the victims of Jack the Ripper as human beings instead of faceless statistics to be gawked at. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Gun violence, Infidelity, Rape, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Gore, Racism, and Xenophobia

There is a lot of talk about the abuse within the workhouses and dissolving of familial dynamics.

kshertz's review

challenging dark informative slow-paced

3.25

I really really love the concept. The research done is amazing. These women were not victims and prostitutes. They were a product of their time and the patriarchy. But I felt the author loses the story in the insane amount of research and that made it hard to keep my interest and finish. I only really recommend if you’re very interested in the women and Jack the Ripper historically and love research. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail